Did COVID lockdowns make us fat? - study

• Published date: 06 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center researchers simulated in mice a sharp decline in physical activity by removing a voluntary running wheel, and assessed how diet composition affects the response.

Their findings, recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Physiological Reports, concluded that while less energy was spent by the mice, the mice still ate similar amounts of food as when the running wheel was present, which resulted in slowed metabolism.

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Additionally, diet composition determined changes in the oxidation rates of fat or carbohydrates (sugars) – the two major energy sources of the human body - in response to the...