**4.9 Lifestyle management**

While lockdown was the best armamentarium we had while the vaccination program was established and rolled out, it lead to potential for more sedentary activity, unhealthy diet, mental health related issues and possible delay in seeking care due to fear of contracting COVID-19 especially for patients with chronic conditions. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important now more than ever [32]. Adoption of dietary advice and restriction of dietary carbohydrates has been proposed for people with metabolic syndrome [33]. Smoking was associated with a higher mortality rate in hospitalized patients and advice regarding smoking cessation should be given [9].
