One side effect of the coronavirus pandemic could be long-lasting: U.S. school closures may worsen the child obesity crisis, experts warn.
pandemic could be long-lasting: U.S. school closures may worsen the child obesity crisis, experts warn.
"There could be long-term consequences for weight gained while children are out of school during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Andrew Rundle, who studies ways to prevent. He's an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Rundle and his colleagues predicted that COVID-19-related school closures will double out-of-school time this year for many children in the United States. And that, in turn, will aggravate risk factors for unwanted weight gain, they warned.
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