| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T109 |
0-437 |
Sentence |
denotes |
This large population-based study presents data on the prevalence of emotional eating and its association with worries and mental distress during the COVID-19 lockdown in Norway and is the first to explore associations between emotional eating and worries related to health and personal economy during a pandemic—findings that are in line with those presented in a study on eating habits during the COVID-19 lockdown period in Italy [4]. |
| T110 |
438-613 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Due to limited evidence on the baseline levels of emotional eating in the study population, we are unable to directly compare these numbers with those from pre-COVID-19 times. |
| T111 |
614-757 |
Sentence |
denotes |
However, emotional eating and associated eating behaviors are closely related to stressful life events and to perceived life stress [21,22,23]. |
| T112 |
758-1048 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the NPIs that were implemented during the lockdown period could represent a significant source of stress to many, and it is therefore not implausible that the prevalence of emotional eating was in fact increased during the study period compared to habitual levels. |
| T113 |
1049-1291 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Literature from another collectively stressful event, namely, an earthquake in New Zealand, showed increased over-eating in subjects that were already prone to emotional eating and who reported high levels of stress related to the event [24]. |
