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KRON 4 | How to Avoid Weight Gain While Sheltered at Home

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Being sheltered in place at home means being close to your food source 24/7. If you’re making more trips to the kitchen throughout the day, are the pounds starting to add up? Stress baking, binge eating, all-day grazing, closed gyms, and comfort foods are a recipe for a new kind of weight gain, called the “Quarantine 15”. Here’s how to cope while sheltered in place.

Karen Owoc

Karen Owoc is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist and author specializing in functional longevity, metabolic health, and heart and brain wellness. Her work spans cardiology, pulmonary rehabilitation, cancer survivorship exercise, and movement-based healthy aging, translating clinical science into clear, practical guidance through both practice and media.