This study describes body weight changes among participants of the NutriNet Brasil cohort (n = 14,259) during the covid-19 pandemic. We analyzed data reported before the pandemic onset (01/26/2020 to 03/18/2020) and about six months after (09/14/2020 to 10/19/2020). Our results show that 19.7% of the participants gained ≥ 2 kg. Weight gain was directly associated with male gender, lower education, and previous ...
Objective: To describe the characteristics of the diet of the NutriNet Brasil cohort participants immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The data in this study come from an adult cohort created to prospectively investigate the relationship between food consumption and morbi-mortality from chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil. For this study, we selected the first participants (n = ...