There are few studies about obesity that relate eating behavior and emotional factors during
the pandemic of COVID-19. Thus, the present study aimed to analyze eating habits and
emotional aspects in obese people during the pandemic period. A literature review was carried
out, whose objectives were to evaluate if during the pandemic there were alterations in the
eating habits, in the intensification or development of emotional aspects, and if they
influenced the changes in these habits. The methodology used to compose the work was the
inclusion of articles published from January to June 2022, in the CAPES Portal de Periódicos,
PubMed and Scientific Library Online (SciELO) databases, using the descriptors: obesity,
COVID-19, eating behavior, emotional aspects and mental health, written in Portuguese and
English. The inclusion criteria included studies related to COVID-19, eating habits and
emotional aspects in obese patients, while the exclusion criteria were studies with children,
adolescents and the elderly, those that did not fit the objectives and duplicates. Thus, a total of
67 articles were collected, 17 of which were selected for reading, based on the pre-established
criteria, and after a detailed analysis, 7 were excluded for not meeting any of the required
criteria. In the end, 10 articles written in Portuguese and English were selected. It was
recognized by the literature that people with obesity were harmed with the consequences of
the pandemic, since, it implied the change of unhealthy eating habits as well as change of
lifestyle, in addition, caused the development and intensified the emotional factors, of which
also affected the food becoming poor in nutrients and interfering in weight gain.
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