Atividade física em tempos de pandemia: existe interrelação com alimentação saudável e saúde mental? Uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The present study aims for an integrative literature review to analise the impacts of physical fitness in health and in performance of the individual affected by COVID-19 (positive or in lockdown), given that a patient with healthy habits and practitioner of physical activities, as well as athletes of endurance modalities could presente a less severe picture of the disease. This fact is explained by the immune response of the patient, in the case of obese patients and with bad eating habits, who tend to have a greater severity of the disease, due to condition of chronic inflammation. In order to verify if, in fact, heathy eating, the practice of physical activities and/or sports practices promote mitigation of severe and critical cases of COVID-19, an integrative review was carried was undertaken from the follow databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Sports Discuss and Scielo, by descriptors in English: “COVID-19 and Physical fitness”, “COVID-19 and athletes”, “COVID-19 and sports” and “COVID-19 and Athletic Performance”. Descriptive analysis followed data survey. Results show that more physically prepared people and people who feed themselves correctly are more likely to have fewer grave symptoms of COVID-19 coupled to better mental health.