Checking In On Our Pandemic Habits: What To Lose And What To Keep?

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

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Over the last few years, we've all found different ways to cope with the pandemic. Some people started drinking more, moving less, maybe eating more. Now that the pandemic is at a lull, health experts say it's time to take stock of these habits. Short Wave host Aaron Scott chats with health correspondent Allison Aubrey about how our daily habits have been affected and changed — for better or worse — and how one might start to change ones they want to change.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Hey there Shortwaveers, Erin Scott here and I have the pleasure of chatting with Allison
0:09.8	Aubrey who joins us regularly.
0:12.1	Hey there, Alison.
0:13.1	Hey Erin, it's great to be here.
0:14.4	I remember when you were in intern on the science stuff.
0:17.0	I know that was a wild back.
0:19.0	It's been a couple of years.
0:21.1	Yes indeed.
0:22.1	Thank you very much and I'm super excited that we got to do our first episode together.
0:26.2	So what are we going to be talking about today?
0:28.2	We are going to talk habits as we all kind of get to the end of this second pandemic
0:33.2	winner.
0:34.2	We've all developed various ways to cope over the last two years.
0:37.4	Some of them helpful, some not so helpful.
0:40.0	Baking comes to mind for me.
0:41.5	Baking is great just not every day.
0:44.1	So when it comes to our eating habits, alcohol consumption, daily exercise, turns out some
0:49.2	of these bad habits are persisting and it might be time for a reboot.
0:53.5	All right.
0:54.5	So today on the show then, Alison and I talk about how the initiation of lockdown rules
0:59.3	in March 2020 had a profound effect on people's daily habits and how to think about trying
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