Experts are optimistic that the habits we’ve picked up while in lockdown just may make us healthier in the long run
, which translates to eating more fruit and vegetables; eating seasonally; adding more variety to your diet, as well as encouraging people to prepare homemade, healthy dishes with their own hard-grown ingredients.
And while she says it’s difficult to pinpoint whether it’s better hygiene or social distancing that is responsible for this fall in infections, Professor McLaws says that our newfound clean habits may transfer over to other aspects of living.“Hand hygiene also improves the safety of food preparation, which results in less gastro-type diseases,” she says. “Even using public toilets carries some risk – it will be telling if we see the decline of food-borne diseases, too.
“When you use an alcohol hand rub upon entering a store, what they're doing is showing respect to the customers inside by removing your own germs.”EXERCISEWell, it appears the pandemic has changed that to an extent: stuck together 24/7, families have been forced to find new ways to spend time that does not include sitting around the TV.
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