This is confirmed by a study published last month in the journal Obesity.
Approximately 27 percent of almost 8,000 people surveyed became fat in the first lockdown (April to early May);
44 percent slept worse than before.
This not only endangers health, but also the hope of finally overcoming the pandemic with the help of vaccination: the worse a person is, the worse a vaccination will work for him.
Researchers at Ohio State University give this important hint in the current issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
The scientists analyzed and discovered 49 studies on vaccines from the past 30 years: Stress, depression and an unhealthy lifestyle impaired the benefits of the vaccine.
The extent of the loss was difficult to assess, but antibodies sometimes took a long time to emerge or did not last very long.
Unwanted side effects of the vaccination, however, were sometimes more severe.
The findings can open up a perspective and help to better survive an even stricter lockdown.
The Ohio psychologists recommend eating healthier, getting more exercise and meditating against stress.
The good news is, it's never too late for that.
The effects come on quickly and can really rejuvenate the immune system.
Heartily
Yours Jörg Blech
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My reading recommendations this week:
It was as long as a Boeing 737 and weighed even more: Argentine paleontologists have found some bones of a dinosaur that measured almost 37 meters from snout to tip of its tail, weighed around a hundred tons, and possibly the largest animal in the history of life was.
What drives vaccination opponents - and why are there so many of them in Germany in particular?
My colleague Jörg Römer conducted a very exciting interview with an anthropologist from Great Britain on these questions.
As is well known, many cows live on the streets in India - and now a hard-working researcher has counted them pretty precisely with statistical tricks, at least in one city.
The amazing result from Raipur: a million people, 35,000 cattle.
Do you want to finally find out what the CIA is hiding about the aliens?
No problem.
Thousands of top secret documents from the secret service archives are now available on the Internet.
Ancient masters: In a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, researchers have found wall paintings that are more than 45,500 years old.
That is the previous record!
Here the explorers report that they believe they can find works of art that are much older than that.
Galaxies.
Some are spherical, others elliptical - and some are even not regular in shape.
Max Planck researchers are investigating the bizarre biodiversity in space.
Quiz*
1.
Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
2.
Who discovered the world of microorganisms?
3.
To what percentage does the human genome resemble that of the chimpanzee?
* You can find the answers at the bottom of the newsletter.
Picture of the week
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Satellite image of a strange cloud formation over the Antarctic
Photo: Joshua Stevens / Landsat / US Geological Survey / NASA
UFOs over the ice?
The “Landsat 8” satellite took this unusual image at the end of December over glaciers in the east of Antarctica: It shows lenticular clouds - lenticular, clearly delimited air structures that seem to float in a bizarre way, completely motionless and have often been misinterpreted by people as extraterrestrial Flying objects.
Clouds of this type are a rare phenomenon that has only been observed by a few people in Antarctica.
Recommendations from science
Pandemic: SPIEGEL conversation with virologist Christian Drosten about the attacks on science and his role as a political advisor
History: The adventurous life of a north German farmer boy who built up a sugar empire in America
Animals: The cat disease FIP is almost always fatal - but an unapproved remedy promises rescue
* Quiz answers
1) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - in 1901
2) the Dutch amateur researcher Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 to 1723)
3) 98 percent
