Healthy eating during a global crisis
Researchers found some people actually lost weight during the pandemic. They increased their physical activity levels and improved their diets.
Lockdown prompted people to prepare more food at home. Despite snacking on more junk foods, they showed an increase in their "healthy eating scores," a measure of their overall diet quality, including eating more fruits.
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