This document contains 10 study questions about nutrition and obesity. It discusses two hypotheses for the development of obesity: genetics playing a role in weight gain/loss, and environmental factors like food selection and peer pressure influencing body image. It defines a healthy weight as one without health issues and the correct body fat percentage for an individual's height and BMI. Both genetic and environmental factors like inherited body types and socioeconomic status are seen as influencing obesity. Obese people typically face health problems like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and gallstones. A sound weight loss program involves controlling calorie intake, increasing physical activity, and making lifelong changes rather than short-term dieting.
This document contains 10 study questions about nutrition and obesity. It discusses two hypotheses for the development of obesity: genetics playing a role in weight gain/loss, and environmental factors like food selection and peer pressure influencing body image. It defines a healthy weight as one without health issues and the correct body fat percentage for an individual's height and BMI. Both genetic and environmental factors like inherited body types and socioeconomic status are seen as influencing obesity. Obese people typically face health problems like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and gallstones. A sound weight loss program involves controlling calorie intake, increasing physical activity, and making lifelong changes rather than short-term dieting.
This document contains 10 study questions about nutrition and obesity. It discusses two hypotheses for the development of obesity: genetics playing a role in weight gain/loss, and environmental factors like food selection and peer pressure influencing body image. It defines a healthy weight as one without health issues and the correct body fat percentage for an individual's height and BMI. Both genetic and environmental factors like inherited body types and socioeconomic status are seen as influencing obesity. Obese people typically face health problems like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and gallstones. A sound weight loss program involves controlling calorie intake, increasing physical activity, and making lifelong changes rather than short-term dieting.
This document contains 10 study questions about nutrition and obesity. It discusses two hypotheses for the development of obesity: genetics playing a role in weight gain/loss, and environmental factors like food selection and peer pressure influencing body image. It defines a healthy weight as one without health issues and the correct body fat percentage for an individual's height and BMI. Both genetic and environmental factors like inherited body types and socioeconomic status are seen as influencing obesity. Obese people typically face health problems like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and gallstones. A sound weight loss program involves controlling calorie intake, increasing physical activity, and making lifelong changes rather than short-term dieting.
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Lucas Linsy
3/14/14 Chapter 7 Study Questions PE 2113
Nutrition 1. After reexamining the nature and nurture aspects of weight control, two hypotheses for the development of obesity are; genetics can play a major role in an individuals weight gain or loss over the life span and environmental factors such as: food selection, stereotypes and peer pressure can change the way an individual perceives his image and tries to fit into society. 2. The two hypotheses that are proposed as a result of the four contributors to energy expenditure are; healthy body weight can result in longer days in life and gaining 20 pounds in 2 months is a result of an unhealthy lifestyle. 3. The definition of a healthy weight is weight that is not defined by society or social media. It is a weight that the individual has no health issues with and maintains the correct body fat amount for the individuals height as well as following the body mass index chart. 4. Obesity is defined as having too much body fat. A healthy body weight is generally determined by using a body mass index. 5. The two most convincing pieces of evidence that both genetic and environmental factors play significant roles in obesity are nature and nurture. Naturally we inherit specific body types. Tall, thin people appear to have an inherently easier time maintaining healthy body weight. Nurture, poverty is associated with obesity. North Americans of lower socioeconomic status, especially females are more likely to be obese than those in upper socioeconomic groups. 6. Three health problems that obese people typically face are hypertension, cardiovascular disease and gall stones. These are only a few of the problems associated with obesity. Hypertension is a risk since increased miles of blood vessels found in the adipose tissue, increased blood volume, and increased resistance to blood flow related to hormones made by adipose cells. Cardiovascular disease increases in LDL- cholesterol and triglyceride values, low HDL-cholesterol, decreased physical activity, and increased synthesis of blood clotting and inflammatory factors by enlarged adipose cells. Gallstones are increased as a result of cholesterol content in bile. 7. The three characteristics of a sound weight-loss program are; control of calorie intake, increased physical activity and acknowledgement that
maintenance of a healthy weight requires lifelong changes in habits, not a
short-term weight loss period. 8. The claim for quick, effortless weight loss by any method is misleading because rapid weight loss cannot consist mainly of fat loss because a high calorie deficit is needed to lose a large amount of adipose tissue. Adipose tissue, mostly fat, contains about 3500kcal per pound. 9. Behavior modification is defined as controlling calorie intake. This can be achieved by chain-breaking, stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, contingency management and self-monitoring behavior. Examples of these are: snacking on chips while watching television (chain breaking), pushing tempting food to the back of the refrigerator (stimulus control), avoid using comfort foods as a stress relief (cognitive restructuring), overeating snacks at a social gathering (contingency management), overeating (self-monitoring). 10.Obesity treatment should be viewed as a lifelong commitment rather than a short episode of weight loss since we often view a diet as something that someone goes on temporarily. The type of eating habits that are learned during this diet must be implemented into the individuals lifestyle. This type of short-term habit can result in one returning to old eating habits and regaining all of the weight lost.
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