Covid-19 is not only a potentially dangerous disease: the measures associated with the pandemic also have their downsides.
In order to relieve hospitals and intensive care units, the government is currently imposing stricter corona requirements in some federal states. Among other things, closed clubs, canceled Christmas markets and strict contact restrictions for unvaccinated people should ensure that the corona incidences normalize again and thus also contain the serious course of the disease.
Against the background that there are not unlimited intensive care beds available in Germany, such measures are unavoidable.
However, restrictive measures can also have negative effects on the health of some groups of people.
Anyone who discovered jogging and healthy cooking during the last Corona lockdown may even have benefited from the pandemic. But the majority of people have become more comfortable with the lockdowns. "Under Corona, the lifestyle and quality of life of many people have deteriorated," the German press agency dpa quotes the head of the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Nutritional Medicine (EKFZ), Hans Hauner.
Men, young people and people who had weight problems before the pandemic were particularly affected.
Around 40 percent of the participants in a survey of around 1,000 adults have put on weight since the beginning of the pandemic - an average of 5.6 kilograms, as the dpa announced in June 2021.
In addition, around one in two moves less than before.
"This mainly affects the 18- to 44-year-olds," said Hauner according to the dpa.
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Too little exercise is considered to be the main risk factor for various diseases. The risk of cancer increases if too little exercise, as the German Cancer Society informs. "
Physical activity lowers the risk of cancer, regardless of the fact that a healthy body weight can be maintained through a lot of exercise,
" says the company. "Do as little work as possible while sitting," it continues.
The corona pandemic also has negative effects with regard to diabetes.
According to the
Berliner Zeitung
, leading diabetes experts are
warning of
an increase in diabetes patients over the next two years
.
"The effects of Covid mean that we are now dealing with a number of different type 2 diabetes crises at the same time," quoted the Berlin newspaper Andrew Boulton, professor of medicine and president of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
The increasing number of diabetes cases is mainly due to the corona lockdowns and the associated weight gain of many people, it said.
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