Behavioral food addiction during lockdown. Time for awareness, time to prepare the aftermath

The world is currently facing the COVID-19 pandemic and countries are one-by-one increasing restrictive measures on their populations. To avoid rapid transmission of the virus, governmental authorities have had to impose nationwide lockdowns. Humans were asked to be patient and stay inside their home, imposing social distancing and limiting drastically any human contact. France was not an exception, and such con- strain inflicted inhabitants to change their habits, without n tice, which eventually altered their perception of health risks. It would not take long to foresee the consequences of prolonged physical inactivity, social isolation, behavioral ad- diction, impatience, and so on. While as a bariatric multidisciplinary team, we could not pursue our surgical activity in the matter, we began to be aware of the fallouts, through our teleconsultation service. To illustrate the common awareness we shared, we conducted a global survey on the behavioral modification towards food consumption during the third week of confinement.