It may fall into the category of ‘stating the bleeding obvious’, but now US researchers have proven lockdown is not good for the waist line.
According to a longitudinal cohort study of almost 270 adults, recently published in JAMA Network Open, lockdown (or as the Americans call it ‘shelter-in-place’) was associated with a 0.27kg increase in weight every 10 days on average.
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