Impacts on dietary habits and health of Indian population during COVID-19 lockdown

Abstract

In late 2019 the outbreak of a novel infectious coronavirus (SARS CoV2) which became globalpandemic and named as Coronavirus disease (CoViD-19) World Health Organization (WHO). On 22March, 2020 the Prime Minister of India announced and 14 hours’ public curfew and from 24 March,2020 announced sudden complete lockdown. The sudden complete lockdown made changes in theliving habits and social behaviors of public. Web based survey was conducted among the Indianpopulation of different age groups to understand the impacts on dietary habits and health during thesudden complete lockdown in India.