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  • this whole Corona virus thing started, and I have just been sidetracked and eating Oreos.

  • Everybody is gonna be eating carbs.

  • Why not?

  • It's like 1999 again.

  • I've been eating everything living our lives in self isolation means lots and lots of raids on the refrigerator.

  • And, of course, the pantry.

  • Yes, conditions are right for eating lots and lots of junk food, and many of us are packing on the pounds.

  • It's called the Quarantine 15.

  • Just trying not to gain the what they're dubbing the quarantine.

  • 15 In a town like a hog, you know my Oreos, some barbecue chips, Ding Dongs, cosmic brownies.

  • 17 year old high school student Camille Cassata is stuck at home during the quarantine, just like so many of her contemporaries.

  • Nothing to do but lay around and snack.

  • I'm scared I'm gonna come out of this quarantine gained, like at least like five or £10.

  • Mindy Harmon is a mom of three sons from Houston.

  • I'm well on my way to that.

  • 15 are normally.

  • She keeps busy running a hair salon and a photography studio, but now she's finding it harder to stave off the quarantine.

  • 15 Fixing dinner.

  • Any junk food quite a bit during the day.

  • And then, of course, we always top it off with a little wine and the evenings toe.

  • Eliminate that stress to staying fit and out of the snack closet is half the battle, says health expert and author of the new book Superfood Joy Bauer.

  • There are produced standouts that are packed with the stuff that we should be eating all the time.

  • Strawberries have the most.

  • Vitamins, say Kiwis are terrific, oranges are terrific.

  • And if you could imagine one bell pepper has more than 200% of your daily requirement from vitamins, say.

  • And that, Bauer says, is how you beat the quarantine.

  • 15.

  • All right.

this whole Corona virus thing started, and I have just been sidetracked and eating Oreos.

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