GAMA, M. E. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9995587485134946; GAMA, Maria Eduarda Pereira.
Abstract:
COVID-19 emerged in China and soon spread around the world, becoming a public health
problem. In 2020, the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was now
considered a pandemic. To contain the advance of the disease, social isolation measures were
decreed, however, such measures may have been responsible for several changes in the
lifestyle of the population, especially eating habits, given that the coronavirus pandemic has
contributed to the increased consumption of fast food and industrialized foods through
delivery, which has a great influence on the onset of diseases such as obesity, hypertension
and diabetes. Therefore, the present study aims to analyze the literature and identify, through
integrative review, the repercussions of the pandemic on the consumption of fast foods in
Brazil. The articles were selected in November 2022, through an automatic search in the
literature, through databases such as: Google Scholar, Scientific Electronic Library Online
(SciELO), PubMED, Virtual Health Library (VHL), among others, using keywords according
to health sciences descriptors (DeCS) in Portuguese: "Comportamento Alimentar", "Covid-
19"; and in English: "Fast-food", "Feeding Behavior" and "Sars-Cov-2", 11 papers were
selected after the applicability of the exclusion and inclusion criteria. It is notorious that
during the period of home confinement, caused by coronavirus that the eating habits of the
Brazilian population and the lifestyle of families have changed. In most of the studies
mentioned in this review, the population reported less healthy eating habits during the
isolation period, as the increase in the consumption of fast-foods and industrialized foods.
Thus, it is concluded that future studies should be conducted in order to deepen more
knowledge about the subject in certain regions of the country, with larger samples, crossing
data on income, schooling and cultural differences, in order to optimize the data available in
the scientific literature.