ArticleAppetite2021
COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Acute Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Pre-Existing Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of Nationwide Lockdowns Resulting from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Intake, Eating Behaviors, and Diet Quality: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Eating Motives and Other Factors Predicting Emotional Overeating during COVID-19 in a Sample of Polish Adults.Nutrients · 2021Trial
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- Pandemic Recipes-Nutritional Values of Recipes in Legacy Media.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Oral Health and Dietary Habits Before and After COVID-19 Restrictions in a Portuguese Adult Population: An Observational Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations between mental health and lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in a general Japanese population: NIPPON DATA2010.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Lifestyle Habits and Nutritional Profile of the Spanish Population: A Comparison Between the Period During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Burden of Chronic Disease.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2024Review
- Pandemic-induced changes in household-level food diversity and diet quality in the U.S.PloS one · 2024Article
- Associations between comfort eating and weight change during the COVID-19 pandemic among U.S. adults.Human nutrition & metabolism · 2023Article
- Characteristics associated with buying alcohol to-go and for delivery during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among a national sample of US adults.Drug and alcohol review · 2023Article
- Pre- and post-pandemic seafood purchasing behavior in the U.S.Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
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- Changes in Food Consumption Trends among American Adults since the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Gender-dependent impact of COVID-19 lockdown on metabolic and psychological aspects.Internal and emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Financial and Other Life Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Food and Beverage Consumption among Students Attending a Large California State University during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Emotional eating in relation to psychological stress during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in faculty of medicine, Tanta University, Egypt.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Too much is too much: Influence of former stress levels on food craving and weight gain during the COVID-19 period.PloS one · 2023Article
- Are Cisgender Women and Transgender and Nonbinary People Drinking More During the COVID-19 Pandemic? It Depends.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2023Review
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Abstract
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has created widespread stress. Since many people cope with stress by eating, the current study investigated whether eating behaviors shifted among U.S. adults after the emergence of the pandemic. Data from national, crowdsourced surveys conducted on March 31st, 2020 and February 13th, 2019 were compared. Average levels of eating to cope and food addiction symptoms did not appear to shift during the early stages of the pandemic; however, U.S. adults ate about 14% more added sugars. Moreover, greater stress in response to the pandemic was associated with greater eating to cope, added sugars intake, food addiction symptoms, drinking to cope, and drinking frequency. These associations differed by the presence of state-level stay-at-home orders, perceived vulnerability to disease, age, U.S. political party affiliation, and gender. Although eating behaviors did not appear to majorly shift during the early stages of the pandemic, stress from the pandemic may intensify some maladaptive coping tendencies among U.S. adults.
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