Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19
The lockdown crisis due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) mainly affected people who live under economic despair. Since boosting the immune system against the virus depends on a variety of food intake and lifestyle approaches; hence, it is crucial to know how daily food habits and lifestyle modificati...
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| author | Rashni Agarwala Israt Jahan Maria Promi Dewan Md. Mafizur Rahman Zubaer Hosen Md. Adnan |
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| description | The lockdown crisis due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) mainly affected people who live under economic despair. Since boosting the immune system against the virus depends on a variety of food intake and lifestyle approaches; hence, it is crucial to know how daily food habits and lifestyle modification protect from pathogenic viral infections. This study focused on the benefit of plant-based foods, functional foods and the modified lifestyle which enhance the immunity of all aged groups against COVID-19 in Bangladesh. An online close-ended randomly selected structured multiple-choice questionnaire survey was conducted for people of different parts of Bangladesh (n = 161; male 51.55%, female 48.45%). The total percentage was counted for all variables. We found that plant-based foods, functional foods, and physical exercise played a vital role in enhancing people's immunity to control COVID-19. Plant-based micronutrients, nutraceuticals and antioxidants mainly took part to boost the immune system against the virus. Furthermore, physical activity had a vital role in improving people's immunity to manage COVID-19. Literature suggested that food habits, body immunity, awareness, stress and weight variation were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine or proper medication of COVID-19 still remains in an enigma. In this situation, boosting immunity to combat Coronavirus is the only way to survive. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-addefb9b96f6437bb0ee2c8b6a6f6a112022-12-21T18:41:19ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402022-02-0182e08983Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19Rashni Agarwala0Israt Jahan Maria1Promi Dewan2Md. Mafizur Rahman3Zubaer Hosen4Md. Adnan5Department of Pharmacy, Islamic University, Kushtia 7003, BangladeshDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka 1207, BangladeshDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka 1207, BangladeshDepartment of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Islamic University, Kushtia 7003, BangladeshDepartment of Applied Nutrition and Food Technology, Islamic University, Kushtia 7003, BangladeshDepartment of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong 4318, Bangladesh; Department of Bio-Health Convergence, College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, South Korea; Corresponding author.The lockdown crisis due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) mainly affected people who live under economic despair. Since boosting the immune system against the virus depends on a variety of food intake and lifestyle approaches; hence, it is crucial to know how daily food habits and lifestyle modification protect from pathogenic viral infections. This study focused on the benefit of plant-based foods, functional foods and the modified lifestyle which enhance the immunity of all aged groups against COVID-19 in Bangladesh. An online close-ended randomly selected structured multiple-choice questionnaire survey was conducted for people of different parts of Bangladesh (n = 161; male 51.55%, female 48.45%). The total percentage was counted for all variables. We found that plant-based foods, functional foods, and physical exercise played a vital role in enhancing people's immunity to control COVID-19. Plant-based micronutrients, nutraceuticals and antioxidants mainly took part to boost the immune system against the virus. Furthermore, physical activity had a vital role in improving people's immunity to manage COVID-19. Literature suggested that food habits, body immunity, awareness, stress and weight variation were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine or proper medication of COVID-19 still remains in an enigma. In this situation, boosting immunity to combat Coronavirus is the only way to survive.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022002717COVID-19FoodBoosting immunityVitamin rich foodsFood safetyMisinformation |
| spellingShingle | Rashni Agarwala Israt Jahan Maria Promi Dewan Md. Mafizur Rahman Zubaer Hosen Md. Adnan Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 Heliyon COVID-19 Food Boosting immunity Vitamin rich foods Food safety Misinformation |
| title | Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 |
| title_full | Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 |
| title_short | Exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against COVID-19 |
| title_sort | exploring the impact of daily food habit and modification of lifestyle for boosting immunity against covid 19 |
| topic | COVID-19 Food Boosting immunity Vitamin rich foods Food safety Misinformation |
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