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Changes in dietary habits during

Interiorizing A Quarantine the pandemic and its effects on

health
By: Jennifer Ethel Rodríguez Ayala
8th level By: Correa-Morales Roldan Hipolito.
Teacher: Ma. Margarita Garcia Mosqueda Teacher: Mercado-Lagunas Arturo-Yael

In this quarantine we have learned that we are constantly on the move, and that having the How much have our lives changed? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic brought with it many
right place to carry out our daily activities is of crucial importance, whether it is a cool place changes in the lives of the entire population worldwide. Being locked up implies physical
that keeps us awake and ready for work in the morning or a space that keeps us warm and distancing with a complete or partial decrease in the daily activities of the population such
cozy, or a place that is totally Instagrammable so no matter what time of the day your space as going to school, working, exercising, etc. The aforementioned has caused many people
can be portrayed for a story for your social networks, or something more executive like a in our country to adopt new negative eating habits such as the intake of more caloric dense
home office that is flexible for any activity. foods combined with a lack of physical activity, resulting in a large weight gain which poses
Whatever space we decide to choose, it should certainly make us feel comfortable both a risk to health and to the future of the new generations but also makes us more vulnerable
physically and emotionally, and that’s where interior design comes in. This is responsible for to acquire the SARS-COV-2 virus and present complications. Are you willing to put at stake
creating a unique user experience with the space to be treated, that is to say, a harmonious the health of the next generations?
relationship that is visually effective and that the design is versatile and spacious. As background, we have the study of Pellegrini et al., in 2016, conducted in Italy where it
On some occasions I have come across people who believe that this career is not important was observed that being at home led to a higher caloric intake in addition to foods rich in
and that it is of little value and that it is more of a hobby, but before these negative comments I fats and carbohydrates as well as weight gain in the population that was within a dietary
make people think how important architecture is and how important interior design is, because regime. In Spain, a study on the modification of eating habits during confinement published
even though we may think that to accommodate a space is a matter of common sense, many by the Revista Española de Nutrición Comunitaria (Spanish Journal of Community Nutrition),
times the perspective lets us get carried away and we do not focus on the main point of what observed, as a result, a tendency to higher consumption of healthy foods, lower consumption
we want to achieve with a space or the use we want to give it. In this quarantine hundreds of of foods of low nutritional value and an increase in the habit of cooking at home.
people had to make their space that perhaps they did not have because they did not think it In our country, according to data from the observational study of the Spanish Journal of
was necessary, but I can assure that no matter the situation it is better to have our workplaces Human Nutrition and Dietetics (2), almost half of the population stated that their diet was
ready because as a very famous saying goes “Haste makes waste.” affected since the confinement began for they reported eating all the time during the day and

We can now from this quarantine well understand that no matter if it is a small apartment or a an increase in the daily consumption of sweets, desserts, sugary drinks, junk food and a small
large house we live in it is infallible to have a visual and physical organization in our spaces. part of the population increased their intake of alcoholic beverages. We are facing a critical
situation as we can see overweight and obesity is gaining more and more ground day by day.
Despite the measures that are being taken to fight these diseases we are leaving a fresh mark,
and future generations will have the same habits by which the population is being governed at
this time. The increased consumption of these foods with empty calories during the pandemic
will bring an increase in weight and less energy to perform daily activities in the future. This,
however, in the long term infers a serious public health problem in Mexico because it might
trigger obesity and related diseases.

According to data from the ENSANUT 2018 ¾ of Mexican adult population suffer from
overweight or obesity, placing us in second place worldwide for adult obesity and first for
overweight and childhood obesity. Moreover, both are related to chronic degenerative diseases
such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and different types of cancer. So in
the long term, our prevalence figures of these diseases will increase bringing less quality of
life to the person who did not take care of their eating habits during this pandemic. Recent
studies (8) show the great association that has the amount of visceral fat with complications
by COVID, then to be gaining weight this provides an increase in the amount of visceral fat
putting the person to suffer this disease with greater force and complications.

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