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My name is Amanda Piotrowski (@alwaystryingamanda), and I am 30 years old. I live in Florence, Kentucky, and am a general manager at a restaurant. I set a New Years resolution to lose weight and improve my health, and Ive lost 195 pounds.

It was always a struggle for me to lose weight. I tried over and over again with no substantial success. I love food, and I love junk food even more. At my heaviest weight I was 387 pounds.

My weight also impacted my health. I had high blood pressure that I needed medicine for. I was also previously diagnosed with uterine cancer and was told my weight could have played a part in that as well.

But it wasnt until January 2, 2018, when I was 27 years old, that I finally made a change that stuck.

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I knew that it had to be if I wanted to change. So every time I would plateau, I just kept going. I used to give up when that happened. But sticking with it and trusting the process lead me to where Im at.

I lost most of my weight with calorie counting, and I also incorporate intermittent fasting and a one-meal-a-day (OMAD) style of eating. I really love fasting and how it feels. I had previously tried keto, low-carb, and other high-protein/low-fat diet variations. I believe any way of eating can work as long as you make the best choices for you, physically and mentally.

It's important to note that OMAD is an intense form of intermittent fasting, so you should speak with a doctor or dietitian before trying it for yourself to make sure it's right for you. There are also lots of other forms of fasting diets, some of which are less strict. You have to figure out what's best for *your* mind and body. This is just what works for me!

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I didnt start working out right away. Adding too many changes into my life overwhelmed me. So while I worked on my food plan, I slowly added workouts in.

Now I work out between five and six days a week. I tend to stick with cardio, but have recently included weights. I love just getting lost in my thoughts and crushing it in the gym.

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My journey wasnt easy. No ones is! Its hard. Youll wonder if its worth it. Youll wonder if you can do it. And you can! You can do anything you want to. You just have to try. Thats all Ive been doing.

If I get stuck, I try something else. But I never give up. I never stop trying. I cried too many times hating my body and not being grateful, and that was exhausting. This is the only body we have, so we have to take care of it.

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My weight loss has changed my life so much. Sure, its easier to find clothes and I feel better about how I look. But the number one thing is that Im happylike *actually* happy. I feel clear-headed. I feel more energetic. And I let down my walls and just let myself be weird.

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In addition to health conditions that creep in with the extra kilos, it is also disheartening when you are not able to dress up the way you wish to. When 33-year-told Sudhir Goswami did not like how he looked in the mirror, he decided to take control of his health. His weight loss journey is the living, breathing proof that anything is possible if you have unwavering dedication. Read on.

Name: Sudhir Goswami

Height: 5 feet 5 inches

City: Hyderabad

Highest weight recorded: 99 kgs

Weight lost: 20 kgs

The duration it took me to lose weight: 7 monthsThe turning point: I have always believed in living life to the fullest. So, I enjoyed good food, without bothering whether it was good or bad for my health. Infact, even my weight did not bother me till the time I went shopping with my partner and started to try a suit of my choice. However, I realised that none of the suits of my choice came in my size and I was really disappointed with myself.

That day, I looked at myself in the mirror and realised that I had become really unhealthy and fat. I vowed to change myself and I am glad that I got a loving partner who supported me in every which way on this weight loss journey. I started walking and following a strict diet to get back in shape and even though it wasn't easy, I am so glad I did it. The journey from walking to joining a fitness studio has helped me change my life!

My breakfast: 5 boiled egg whites with 2 slices of brown bread with peanut butter and 1 whole orange or any other whole fruit

My lunch: Carrot, beetroot and peanut salad with grilled chicken and sauted vegetables

My dinner: Grilled fish with sauted vegetables or 200 grams of soya paneer with sauted vegetables

Pre-workout meal: Black coffee with 5- 6 soaked almonds is a must before working out

Post-workout meal: Protein shake which is to be taken within 15 minutes of working out

I indulge in: Even though I try my best to not have a cheat meal, I do crave for chole bhature and have them once in a while.

My workout: I work out 6 days a week for 1.5 to 2 hours and it includes cardio, muscle training and weight training. I also play badminton thrice a week.

Low-calorie recipes I swear by: Palak chicken. Boiled palak (spinach) and chicken cooked with a dash of olive oil with few herbs and spices.

Fitness secrets I unveiled: Eating the right food is essential to stay fit and healthy along with good sleep and drinking a lot of water.

How do I stay motivated? I have a goal chart in my room, and I look at it every day to chase my fitness dream. Whenever I feel low, I close my eyes and visualize all the good things that have happened in my life and it motivates me to keep going forward. Rest everything else is taken care of by my gym trainer Naveen and my fitness partner Rohit Prakash.

How do you ensure you dont lose focus? I believe that there is still a lot to be accomplished on this weight loss journey and I have a long way to go. I also ensure that I surround myself with positive and uplifting people so that I do not lose sight of weight loss journey.

Whats the most difficult part of being overweight? The most difficult part of being overweight is the inability to carry yourself both mentally and physically. You reach a point where you start doubting your abilities in every facet of life.

What shape do you see yourself 10 years down the line? Honestly, the shape does not matter, health does and I want to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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The myth associated with weight loss regimes is that one has to eat boiled food and other dietary products. But in fact, one can also lose weight by eatingmeals that are high on calories and have healthy carbs.

There are several food options top of the list is peanuts. They are extremely rich in protein, fat, fibre and other healthy nutrients. It can be added to desserts, cakes, confectionery and can be eaten as snacks.Peanuts are a versatile food.

As per a study published in The Journal of Nutrition, eating foods which are rich in protein can help burn more calories. As per experts, your teeth cannot break peanuts into small pieces which is necessary fordigestion. Therefore, your body absorbs fewer calories and the leftover is excreted through waste.

Peanuts are high in protein, it can be had inbetween meals to reduce binge eating and they are also help in easy bowel movement due to its high fibre content.

Peanuts can help improve heart health as it contains more healthful monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats than saturated fats.

Since peanuts have a low glycemic index (GI) they do not cause big spikes in blood sugar levels and are excellent for diabetics or people with a risk of diabetes. Peanuts have a GI score of 23, which makes it a low-GI food.

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You can commit to your weight loss and also eat healthy (Shutterstock)

Here are some foods that can help you lose your weight while still maintaining health:

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Cruciferous

This family consists of cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cauliflower. They are high in fibre and are very filling. When you eat these you're less likely to be eating more than you should.

They can be cancer-fighting and this makes these foods a go to option. They also have low to no exposure to cholesterol intake.Cruciferous have low to no exposure to cholesterol intake (Shutterstock)

Whole eggs

You may be thinking that eggs belong to another list, opposite from this one. However, they are actually great for weight loss regimes.

There are also studies done showing that eggs for breakfast increases weight loss on a calorie restricted diet, in comparison to eating donuts in the morning.

Leafy greens

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If you're really eying a trim look, then these greens are the food for you. Greatly packed with fibre, you'll realize that they offer nutrients without getting you more kilos.

Kales, spinach, and collards, all but help to burn the fat and give you that trimmed up body.Greatly packed with fibre, greens offer nutrients without getting you more kilos (Shutterstock)

Boiled potatoes

This filling meal will get you avoiding any other food offers you get. They contain potassium, and starch.

These nutrients are great for the body and the potato intake will make you avoid adding onto your plate during the day.

A day kick started by eating boiled potatoes will be a full stomach day indeed.

Beans and legumes

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Here's an option that goes well with a vegetarian diet. They include the lentils, black beans, kidney beans and peas.

They tend to offer low calories, hence a preferable option for weigh loss. Their increase in protein gives them the quality of advocating for weight loss.

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Salmon

This is a fatty fish that is way so tasty when prepared. You can confidently add this to your daily weight loss diet, being sure to use better preparation rather than frying.

Grilling this will make the protein filled meaty to still be moist and juicy enough.

Weight loss should not be a journey that you're afraid of starting. Remind yourself that you can do it and commit to eating healthier.

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Over the last couple of years, making hay in a timely manner has been nearly impossible. There just were not three- or four-day windows of dry weather without water standing in the fields. The result was a lot of poor-quality hay, producing cows with poor body condition scores (BCS) coming out of the winter.

This year, hay production has started out much better for most people. We had a couple nice dry periods in late May and early June that allowed baling of good-quality hay. The issue this year is quantity. Many people are reporting reductions of 30% to 50% in tonnage of first-cutting hay. There are probably two factors that are causing this. First, the cold weather and numerous frost and freeze events in April and May slowed down hay growth. Much of the alfalfa was at bud stage on June 1 instead of flowering. This likely helped the quality but hurt the quantity. The second factor is, we simply would expect less hay when it is baled at the beginning of June than the end of June. Time will tell whether the season-long hay production remains low, or if second and third cuttings make up the difference.

It is never too early to plan. There are options to consider to be sure enough forage will be available for the winter. This comes down to either producing more forage or reducing the need for forage. Many good articles have been written on alternative forage production for increasing available forage, so I am going to skip over that. I will concentrate on reducing the need for stored forage. We often think of early weaning as an alternative during drought conditions, but it can also effectively extend the grazing season, which will reduce the need for stored forage.

Studies in both North and South Dakota have reported reductions in daily forage consumption between 25% and 40% associated with early weaning. We know that cows nursing calves require more forage, but we also need to remember those calves are eating between 2% and 2.5% of their body weight a day in dry matter. This reduction in forage use is only valuable if managed in a way to take advantage of it. The reduced consumption could allow more days of grazing on each section, or some sections could be skipped over to allow stockpiling and extend the grazing season.

Early weaning also provides the opportunity to remove cull cows from the herd before seasonal low prices occur. According to USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service data over the last five years, September cull cows have typically brought at least $5 per cwt more than November culls. Cows nursing calves often continue to lose weight up to the time the calves are weaned. A study by Landblum et al. in North Dakota showed a decrease in cow weight of 136 pounds with a November versus August weaning. This could amount to an extra $150. Holding these cull cows until traditional weaning time, while calves continue to nurse, may result in a smaller payday and less forage remaining in the pasture. Early weaning will also allow retained cows to put on body condition from pasture forage before heading into winter and using stored forage. A 5 to 7 BCS at the beginning of the calving season will increase the likelihood of cycling early and getting pregnant early the next season. Having a calf early in the breeding season is one of the most important determinants of profitability. An increased BCS can have long-term impacts on productivity.

The downside to early weaning is that younger calves weigh less. If calves are sold directly off or the cows and ownership is not retained, this would mean a smaller payday. The lighter (younger) calves will bring a higher price per pound, but this will not make up the difference in the total payment received for larger calves. The value of forage saved and increase in body condition of the cows need to be accounted for when looking at early weaning. If early weaning extends the grazing season, and a producer has plenty of good-quality hay, the producer could sell some of that hay at a premium. Early weaning could pay off.

A final point to consider would be keeping weaned calves and backgrounding them. Early weaning and then backgrounding can allow you to put some inexpensive gain on the calves. In addition, if processing facilities are still backed up as we reach the end of summer, early weaning and then backgrounding of the calves can provide a little extra flexibility for timing of marketing to avoid backlogged market conditions.

Kreager is the agriculture and natural resources Extension educator for Licking County, Ohio, and a member of the OSU Extension Beef Team. The Beef Team publishes the weekly Ohio BEEF Cattle letter; find it at beef.osu.edu.

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Famous rap singer alyona alyona, which hit the TOP 10 of the most promising rappers in the world, for the first time has declassified its weight. In 29 years the celeb has challenged himself and plans for the year to lose 29 pounds. Note that alyona alyona speaks frankly about her figure and shows candid shots in swimsuit.

Rap singer alyona alyona

But after his birthday, which she celebrated on June 14, alyona alyona decided to challenge myself. In Instastories artist recorded a video which was up on the scale. It turned out that the performer weighs 127.4 pounds. She explained to subscribers its weight does not bother, just in terms of quarantine without concerts her life became monotonous and she wanted new challenges.

Also, the Ukrainian artist has promised in his blog to share the success of weight loss diets and exercises.

alyona alyona put a picture in a swimsuit:

I want to challenge myself. I was 29 years old. I want to challenge myself and try to lose weight for the year at 29 pounds, the next birthday, I weighed a little less than today. Want some adventure. Concerts are gone, all gone. Quite lean I not going to become. Ill show you what I do, said rap singer.

Earlier alyona alyona made the list of Forbes a prestigious ranking of the 30 Under 30 celebrity who made a breakthrough in his career.

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Data from the research firm Nielsen that tracked Americans grocery buying from March to May bore this out. Campbells reaped a 93 percent increase in sales of its canned soup before settling back to a still-amazing 32 percent growth. At General Mills, breakfast cereal jumped 29 percent in late March, and jumped again to 37 percent in the third week of April. Deep into the pandemic, we were still buying 51 percent more frozen waffles, pancakes and French toast from Kelloggs. And so on.

To help gauge what we might do once social distancing ends, Ms. Howard also took an early measure of how the pandemic changed our eating habits. A survey by her firm, done on April 2 of 1,052 consumers who were representative of the U.S. population, found that six in 10 adults were cooking more of their meals from scratch, a trend that broke fairly evenly among different age groups.

But there were some generational splits on other matters. Not quite one in three people said the virus had caused them to eat healthier, which older people tended to define as helping them lose weight or control diabetes, and younger adults defined as real food with simple ingredients. By contrast, one in four people said they were eating more salty and sugary snacks, and these people were dominated by the same group that had given Big Food a hard time back in 2014: young adults ages 18 to 29.

Amy Trubek, chair of the nutrition and food sciences department at the University of Vermont, said that when her students had to flee campus in March, they cooked up a healthy storm. But she has her doubts about whether they or the rest of us can keep this up without some concerted effort.

American habits die hard, she said. I dont think sourdough starter is going to make everybody into a home cook of whole foods. Its the everyday relentlessness of figuring out how to feed yourself that is always the problem. And as things ease up, we have a habitual system in our society where you dont have to cook, you can have other people cook on your behalf, or you buy food thats prepared for you in some way, shape or form.

Enter the processed food companies and their plans to capture the moment were in, building on strategies they employed even before the pandemic began. In listening to their marketing executives and pitches to Wall Street, we might expect to see a game plan that looks like this:

Keep their foods in our heads through ads on our mobile phones. This started out silly, with bags of Doritos measuring six feet between people. They went deeper into our isolation with pick your quarantine house from Skittles and played on our social distancing with virtual hugs from M&Ms. But even when not tied to the pandemic, their pitches are staggeringly effective. Taco Bell has 1.9 million followers.

Fight harder for shelf space. Mondelez employees, known as direct store distribution agents, go into supermarkets to stock the companys products themselves, which became a huge advantage in the pandemic. When grocers focused on restocking staples like flour and meat and let the snacks aisles sit empty, Mondelez agents kept the Oreos and Ritz crackers coming. Look for fierce shelf wars among companies going forward.

Focus on new markets. In China, the pandemic hurt sales initially, but Mondelez bounced back in part by refocusing their marketing efforts. We started to realize that cooking with Oreo was something that they really like to do, said Mr. Van de Put. So, we switched our communication to cooking with Oreo, and it had a great effect on our sales.

Recapture impulsiveness. The pandemic has accelerated the industrys efforts to get us to buy things not on our shopping list. One trick thats getting renewed attention: the full basket. With free shipping on orders of $35 or more, for example, shoppers just short of that sum get prompted to add impulse items.

And finally, food companies are hoping to regain our trust about the health risks of processed foods by reducing their use of sugar, salt and saturated fat, and by taking steps to help consumers avoid overeating. A Mondelez spokesman said the company is vigorously pursuing these goals, that its snacks include savory products like Triscuits and Ritz, and pointed to a survey released June 9 by an industry-funded group that found some people are using snacks to replace meals. Last month, Mondelez was back in front of Wall Street analysts with a report about its snacking made right campaign, which promotes mindful snacking with portion control and eating advice.

A company video has six tips when it comes to the Oreos that weve been gobbling up at home with our kids, including this one: Instead of just grabbing a handful, place just three on a plate and try to resist the impulse to gobble. Take a small bite from one cookie and put it back.

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If youve noticed youve put on the quarantine 15 its OK, its expected, says Dr. Taz Bhatia an immune support and wellness physician. Losing weight, it's not just about looking in the mirror and trying to look fantastic, she explains. It's really more about your overall health.

To look and feel good, Bhatia recommends ditching the comfort foods and reorganizing your refrigerator to include healthy foods like: lean proteins and vegetables.

She also emphasizes the importance of movement. The real secret to weight loss is that we need to move throughout the day, Bhatia says. Instead of putting in a full hour of a hardcore workout, try exercising three times a day for 30 minutes.

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TAZ BHATIA: Hi, there. I'm Dr. Taz. I'm an integrative and board-certified wellness physician. If you gained some weight over the quarantine, don't worry. You are not alone. And honestly, it's expected after everything we've all been going through. I'm here today to talk about weight gain and some easy ways for us all to lose that quarantine weight.

Here's my first tip-- it's time to ditch those comfort foods. You know the foods I'm talking about-- Oreos, Spam, potato chips, Pop Tarts, you name it. But when we're stressed and upset, those are the things we naturally run back to. Here's what you'd like your refrigerator to look like. I would start by organizing it by category. That's the easiest way to think about food.

So have a shelf dedicated to your lean proteins. This could be things like turkey slices, chicken breast. The next shelf can be devoted to fiber. We also want a lot of vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, kale. All of those different vegetables provide us with fiber that's going to keep us healthy and keep us full. And then the next shelf down, let's think about our healthy fats. And in this case, I'm talking about avocados, some cheese, full fat milk. Those type of things could be sitting near as well.

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The key to weight loss is constant movement. And many people think that they need to move for one hour, work really hard, and they're done. But the real secret to weight loss is that we need to move throughout the day. So even if you schedule 20 to 30 minute bursts maybe three times a day, and that could be getting up, walking around your house, running around your house or on a neighborhood street, that's going to make a difference and you're doing it throughout the day, rather than just dedicating that one hour of a full day to a workout.

Fasting creates clear boundaries. This is when you're allowed to eat, this is when you're not allowed to eat. So I love using intermittent fasting when you're trying to jumpstart your weight loss. I often advise starting with at least a 12-hour fast then graduate to a 14-hour fast. And ultimately, we know weight loss happens when there's a 16-hour fast. It's always a good idea to run any changes to your diet and exercise plan by your doctor.

My next tip is all about balancing your digestion, and one of the ways you can balance your digestion and then lose weight is by adding in gut-friendly foods. I'm talking about foods that balanced gut bacteria. These are going to be things like bone broth, non-dairy kefir, yogurt, fermented vegetables. All of these add all this great bacteria into the gut and help, in turn, to balance the gut and really alter and improve our metabolic rate.

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The coronavirus pandemic has pushed health to the forefront of many peoples minds. And while the best way to avoid COVID-19 is not to catch the virus in the first place, were starting to understand why some people become seriously ill with the disease while others have only mild or no symptoms.

Age and frailty are the most important risk factors for severe COVID-19, but data from our COVID Symptom Study app, used by nearly four million people, has shown that diet-related conditions, such as obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes, are significant risk factors for ending up in hospital with the disease.

In the UK, around one in three adults are obese and many more are overweight. In the US, around two in five adults and nearly one in five children are obese. From generalised government nutritional guidelines to Instagram-worthy fad diets, theres no end of advice on how to lose weight. Clearly, it isnt working.

This is a complex problem to unpick. Factors such as sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and availability of healthy food all play a part. But on an individual level, we still understand relatively little about how each person should eat to optimise their health and weight.

In search of answers, our research team at Kings College London together with our colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, Stanford University and health science company ZOE launched PREDICT, the largest ongoing nutritional study of its kind in the world. Our first results have now been published in Nature Medicine.

PREDICT-1, the first phase of the PREDICT research programme, involved more than 1,000 adults (including hundreds of pairs of twins) who were continuously monitored for two weeks to discover how they respond to different foods.

Participants had an initial set-up day in hospital for detailed blood measurements and testing of responses after eating carefully designed set meals. They then carried out the rest of the study at home, following a schedule of set meals and their own free choice of foods. We measured a wide range of markers of nutritional responses and health from blood glucose, fat, insulin and inflammation levels to exercise, sleep and gut bacteria (microbiome) diversity.

This kind of detailed, ongoing analysis was made possible through the use of wearable technologies. These included continuous blood glucose monitors and digital activity trackers, which meant we could keep track of our participants blood sugar and activity levels 24/7. Simple finger-prick blood tests also allowed us to measure their blood fat levels on a regular basis.

All these measurements added up to millions of datapoints, which needed to be analysed with sophisticated machine learning techniques (a type of artificial intelligence) in order to spot patterns and make predictions.

The first thing we noticed was the wide variation in individual insulin, blood sugar and blood fat responses to the same meals, even for identical twins. For example, one twin might have healthy responses to eating carbohydrates but not fat, while the other twin is the opposite. Straight away, this tells us that we are all unique and that there is no perfect diet or correct way to eat that will work for everyone.

The observation that genetics only plays a minor role in determining how we respond to food also tells us that simple genetic tests claiming to determine the right diet for your genes are ineffective and misleading. Curiously, identical twins only shared around a third of the same gut microbe species, which may help to explain some of the variation in nutritional responses and also points towards an opportunity to improve health and weight by manipulating the microbiome.

We also discovered that the timing of meals affects nutritional responses in a personalised way. The same meal at breakfast caused a different nutritional response in some people when eaten for lunch. But in other people there was no difference, busting the myth that there are correct mealtimes that will work for all.

Another surprise was finding that the composition of meals in terms of calories, fat, carbohydrates, proteins and fibre (macronutrients or macros) also had a highly individualised effect on nutritional responses. Some people handle carbs better than fat, for example, while others have the opposite response. So prescriptive diets based on fixed calorie counts or macronutrient ratios are too simplistic and will not work for everyone.

However, despite the wide variability between participants, each persons own responses to identical meals eaten at the same times on different days were remarkably consistent. This makes it possible to predict how someone might respond to any food based on knowledge of their underlying metabolism.

Intriguingly, we found that the levels of inflammatory molecules in the blood varied by up to tenfold, even in seemingly healthy people, and that a rise in these inflammation markers was linked to having unhealthy responses to fat.

We use the term dietary inflammation to refer to these unhealthy metabolic effects that are triggered after eating. Repeatedly experiencing dietary inflammation brought on by excessive blood sugar and fat responses is linked with an increased risk of conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and obesity.

On a more positive note, our findings suggest that it might be possible to improve weight management and long-term health by eating in a more personalised way designed to avoid triggering unhealthy inflammatory responses after meals.

When it comes to weight, weve traditionally put a huge emphasis on factors we have no control over, especially genetics. The fact is, while genetics plays a role, many more important factors affect how our metabolism, weight and health. Its time to move away from overly generalised guidelines, fad diets and one-size-fits-all plans and develop more personalised, scientific approaches to nutrition that understand and work together with our bodies, not against them.

Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London

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This article was exclusively written forThe European Sting by Ms. Gabriella Gomar, a second year medical student at Faculdades Pequeno Prncipe in Curitiba, Brazil.She is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and do not necessarily reflect IFMSAs view on the topic, nor The European Stings one.

Now a days, with the Coronavirus pandemic and the number of deaths because of it (that now is above 180 thousand), is dificult to maintain the mental health. Infectious diseases have an immense influence on mental health, because the population is often thinking about it and its consequences. A lot of people are developing psychological problems, such as anxiety, fear, depression, distress and insomnia. And that is why people need to calm down and do things to lessen the burden, although this is not a simple work.

The activities in grand part of the world are being developted online. Therapy and psychological sessions should happening online by platforms of comunication as well, because some people really need mental support, specially in this conditions. Therefore, local governments should develop psychological interventions to help the population to reassure and continue living as good as possible, within the situation we are all going through. Besides that, it is essential that people do not stay all day lying or sitting wearing pijamas, because their mind needs to understand that the individual is awake. Read books (and not just the noticiary), study, cook, clean the house, develop awareness campaings, spend time with family, take care of yourself and separe things for donation. These are simple actions that could be done to help when isolating. Moreover, it is better than staying at bed all day during this time.

Physical exercise is relevant in this pandemic context for all ages, because it maintains the individuals body active, help muscles and increase blood circulation. Also reduce high blood pressure, can help to lose weight and reduce the risk of heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, and cancers conditions that normally increase susceptibility to COVID-19. Exercising is very important for mental helth, because can reduce the level of depression, cognitive decline and improve overall feelings. Even who is not into exercising regularly, should use this time to discover which exercises like to practice it during the isolation time. For these and more reasons, the World Health Organization (WHO) reccomends imensly that people practice physical exercise.

In this pandemic, children of all ages could express irritability and anger. What can parents do in this situation? They should be honest with their children, explaining the situation in a way that they can understand. Parents can use ludic and creative activities to help them in expressing themselves and have something to do. They also should be model for their children, and that is one more reason for them to manage their own stressors. The socio-economic aspect can influence on mental health of people, therefore the goverment of various countries can help their population with food and health condition, and this will influence on mental health too. In this pandemic, it is essential that population recognizes the importance of mental health for everybody, studying about and valuing it. This come together with having empaty, helping others too.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32202646

https://covid19.who.int/

https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/connecting-the-world-to-combat-coronavirus/healthyathome/healthyathomephysical-activity

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2020/3/mental-health-and-psychological-resilience-during-the-covid-19-pandemic

About the author

Gabriella Gomar is a second year medical student at Faculdades Pequeno Prncipe in Curitiba, and member of the local Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP) of IFMSA Brazil. She is interested in discovering more about the COVID-19, and also in undestanding peoples mind in this cenary. Now a days, she has classes at home and continues doing scientifical researches, reading articles and the worldwide news. She hopes Brazil and all the world get over this soon, and believes on scientific community studies. Personally, she is helping people as she can, with her knowledge and possibilities.

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