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With the advent of technology and creative manners that our sense of meeting
attractiveness of food in terms of appearance to satisfying our taste buds, food saw a tremendous
revolution to its introduction in varieties and themes.

Whatever and where ever. Man is surrounded by food always, be it festivities, joy or sorrow.
Food has an innate connection with our emotions .Our frequently indulged pleasure is food, yet
what is on the platter and be served nowadays is the hottest topic globally to use as a defensive
tool apart the physical measures to combat the Covid 19 pandemic in terms of immune boosters
in the body.

Smart ways of inculcation of time friendly techniques to introduce to our lifestyles making it
vivid made people hop up from healthy to a toll on their health as in life style diseases,
obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, etc.

Pandemic-Corona pushed globally masses to restrict their mobility and enforced physical
inactivity making them to live sedentary lives, pushing more the curve of higher risk of
metabolic diseases. Children and adolescents typically gain more in summers A school
environment provides structure and routine around mealtime physical activity and sleep.

People are bound to work from home., children, college goers and researchers to attend online
classes and have their whole work frame surrounded and focused in a global village in a virtual
world to prevent the spread of the pandemic viral infection made people to adopt a monotonous
behavior of life that aggravated cravings pertaining foods, hence food acquired a negative trait
from being nourishment to abused behavior. Abnormal sleep patterns disturbed the biological
clock of body hence a differential hormone level which in turn causes tendency to eat more
Pandemic corona seems to worsen the figures of obesity related conditions.

Having a pre data of the percentage of obesity globally as 72%males and 63%of women. Expectancy of the
percentage of population who will be in future queue in upcoming times will add misery in
patient management.

The exact time period till we will be free from corona is not known, so the biased nature of
corona pushes the fear of severity of severe health concerns over the faith n beliefs of people
already struggling with obesity as people are being isolated either at quarantine centers or at
homes .

The healthcare facilities are already ailing in the country to combat the crisis viz specialized
units for individual focus. Covid 19 is most likely linked to poor outcomes for those affected with
obesity

In New York the percentage of people who required breathing tubes were 40% and people in
France who were admitted in ICU were 90% as morbidly obese.

A lot more reasons fall for inability of obese people to cope up with covid and hence the
recovery a bit tedious, in simple manner I may say extra weight means there is higher oxygen
demand in body

On top of everything else, the ability of the body to fight off the virus is not good as in people
who are obese.

The best way is to focus upon the components on the platter to be served equally for every class
and category of people

As a preventive health care professional, I may not advocate here the theories to ask people to
refrain from food when in such an obesogenic environment; one cannot stay away from food.

Novel corona virus is actually acting as an amplifier for the obesity .Global food industry
produces and extensively promotes cheap, sugar sweetened beverages, ultra-processed foods
high in salt, sugar and empty calories.

Government authorities must intervene where common man cannot do its bit only by refraining
children not to eat but strong policies need to be checked by Food and drug organization, WHO,
and other involved agencies to put a complete ban on the seditious display and sale of
advertisement of such foods .Implementing positive nutritional policies, promotion of locally
grown foods, laying stone for organic markets.

Last but not the least, everybody should understand and employ the concept “Food as a
medicine” as Positive Nutritional tool rather than filling tummies and quenching thirst for
taste. Focus on consumption of wholegrain cereals, fruits, nuts seeds, vegetables in our routine
dietary regime may help to balance the current web of covid pandemic.

While escaping corona we should not fall into the clutches of another epidemic –Obesity.