Impact of Dietary Habits and Opinionated Lifestyle during COVID-19 Pandemic : A Case Study on Engineering Students

TL;DR

This study investigates how COVID-19 lockdowns affected the dietary habits, physical activity, and body weight of engineering students through a structured questionnaire and data analysis.

Contribution

It provides new insights into lifestyle and dietary changes among students during the pandemic using empirical data collection and analysis.

Findings

Altered dietary habits and increased sedentary behavior during lockdown.

Changes in body weight among students during COVID-19 confinement.

Insights into health and lifestyle trends among engineering students.

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a new lifestyle due to lockdown. The impact was on food habits, working hours, and sleeping patterns. The goal of this study is to detect lifestyle changes caused by confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dietary habits, physical activities, and to explore changes in the body weight. A structured questionnaire was used in the study to collect anthropometric data; daily consumption of particular foods, water intake, food frequency, and number of meals/day. The data is presented in a graph illustration to show health , lifestyle trends and the friendship among engineering students.