314 - COVID-19 and Weight Gain
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
For some, the pandemic has been a "perfect storm" in terms of unhealthy eating resulting in the "quaran-ten" or the COVID "19 pounds." Dr. Elena Jansen and Dr. Susan Carnell, two Johns Hopkins obesity researchers, talk with Stephanie Desmon about how COVID-related stress—combined with being at home more—has impacted our bodies and health behaviors during the pandemic. They also talk about how the pandemic has a silver lining for some families' eating habits and give their take on where pandemic eating is heading in the long term, for better or worse.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
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| 0:51.0 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Elena Jansen and Susan Carnell, two obesity researchers at |
| 0:56.6 | Johns Hopkins, about how COVID-related stress has impacted our bodies and our health behaviors during |
| 1:02.7 | the pandemic. Let's listen. Alana Jansen and Susan Carnell, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:09.2 | Thanks very much. We're happy to be here. |
| 1:11.2 | So today I want to talk to you about COVID-related stress |
| 1:15.1 | and what it's doing to our bodies and our health behaviors. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, we've heard jokes about people putting on the quarantine |
| 1:22.1 | and even the COVID-19. |
| 1:25.0 | It seemed to be gaining weight. |
| 1:27.3 | We're more sedentary. Why is this happening? |
| 1:31.3 | Sure. I mean, I think the COVID pandemic really has been a perfect storm in terms of |
| 1:35.9 | obesitygenic factors, you might call them. So first, just the sheer kind of practical |
| 1:42.1 | effects that it's had on people's lives with them being |
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