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HEALTH AND SAFETY - REPORTER: REECE OKELL Y10

How is Lockdown both tributing to and

helping to prevent Coronary Heart Disease

First of all, Coronary Heart Disease has several
risk factors attcked to it, with some of them
being affected by the lockdown, these include a
lack of exercise and different diets which may
be high in fats or sugars. With lockdown
currently being enforced, less people are eating
more unhealthy options due to the limitation on
fast-food and take-aways being avaliable, with
many people deciding to cook their own food.
Food places being closed is not the only reason
for this, however, there is also a percentage of
the population who no longer trust the places
they would ordinarily get their food from,
through fear of a person being
infected in the establishment which may then
get passed on the person who ordered the
meal, though there is a very low chance of this
happening.

Lack of exercise is also a risk factor for
Coronary Heart Disease, but due to people
becoming increasingly lazy as they are staying
at home and not worrying about keeping up
their apperance as they have no reason to
go out other than go shopping when they
need their essential shop. Because of this
people are not exercising as often as they
do not have the facilities like a gym that they
ordinarily have, this only applies to a small
portion of the population, wiht some takning
up exercise in order to get out of the house
for an hour for a walk due to a lack of other
things to do around their homes, so for some,
they are getting more exercise than they were
pre-lockdown.

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