Write an article highlighting the importance of "Physical Exercise during COVID-19."
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As we all know covid basically affect those people we are not fit. So talking precautions is best part you can do like doing proper exercise everyday and maintaining proper diet. Also we all get alot of time this year to make ourselves fit but I guess everyone has just wasted it either chilling by watching series/movies Nd eating unhealthy stuffs. But still it not too late now for maintaining ourselves in every way. Specially at this phase of time where our physical health is so important everyone should take exercise seriously and should start maintaining their body.
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I want to thank you for the opportunity to review the article nutrients-1014998 entitled: Dietary habits and psychological states during COVID-19 home isolation: the mediation effect of self-administered physical exercise in Italian college students
The main aim of this longitudinal study seems to be two: 1) to investigate the association between mood state, exercise, and dietary habits, 2) to examine the mediating effects of physical exercise between psychological states and nutrition. According to the authors, this is one of the first attempts to investigate the relationship between nutrition, psychological states and physical exercise using a mediation model.
It is evident that the authors of this manuscript do not write in English as their primary language. While that observation itself is not a limitation, there are many English writing conventions that are not followed throughout the manuscript which distract from the clarity of the sentences, the presentation of the results, etc. The authors should ensure that a native speaker reads the manuscript in order to check for stylistic and grammatical correctness.
I see good potential in this manuscript, although there are some changes that would need attention and revising before being considered for publication.
Title
1.- Please, remove “self-administered” since all measured variables are self-administered.
Abstract
1.- Please, put “physical exercise” instead of “physical activity” throughout the article. The authors have measured exercise in this study not physical activity.
2.- The authors use different names to refer to dietary habits “nutritional choices”, “food choices”, “
nutritional variables”, “eating behaviours”. Please, put the same name of the variable according to exactly what you have measured.
3.- The aim or aims of this study are not sufficiently clear in the title, abstract, and introduction. In the title the aim is related to the mediating effects of physical exercise between psychological states and nutrition, in the abstract the aim is to investigate the effects of mood states and exercise on nutritional choices, while at the end of the introduction the aim is “to investigate the association between mood state, self-administered exercise, and the dietary habits”. Please, put the different aims of this study.
4.- Please, rewrite this sentence “An observational study was carried out to investigate the effects of mood states and exercise on nutritional choices, on 176 college students during the COVID-19 lockdown: during 21 days, spontaneous nutrition and physical exercise were daily monitored, and the mood states assessed”.
5.- The authors use different names to refer to physical exercise. For example, physical activity or
training load. Please, put the same name of the variable according to exactly what you have measured.
6.- Please, put “longitudinal observational study” in the abstract.
7.- Authors said “Exercise could play a key beneficial role during uncommon situations, such as a home-confinement”. Please, rewrite this conclusion according to your results.
8.- Please, put the mean and standard deviation of the sample.