But, he cautioned, there could be other variables at work. For instance, statistics examining pharmacy prescriptions revealed that.
The South had the greatest incidence of weight-loss drug distribution, but it also had a disproportionately high number of COVID-19 fatalities among obese individuals.
The scientists hypothesized that changes in lifestyle brought about by people’s recovery from pandemic isolation could possibly be at play.
Co-author of the article Benjamin Rader, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said, “You have this emergence from COVID, of which people are possibly starting.
To be more active again, stopping the sedentary habits that they picked up during COVID.” “All of these forces are at play, and I don’t think we can disentangle them from this data.”
Although the results are positive, experts warn that it’s too soon to predict if the trend of reduced waistlines will continue.
