Chapter 8 Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Health Risks for Overweight People
Overweight and Obesity Overweight • A weight that exceeds the threshold of a health criterion in relationship to morbidity (disease) and mortality (death).
Obesity • Like overweight, is a weight that exceeds that the threshold of a health criterion, but to a greater degree.
Body Mass Index BMI • Uses weight and height to produce a number that enables health professionals to gauge risk of weight-related diseases.
Body Mass Index Classifications
Body Mass Index and Mortality
Body Fat Distribution Site of Fat • May be as important a risk factor as how much fat you have and perhaps more important.
Visceral Fat
Body Fat Distribution
Waist Circumference Measure
Risk Factors and Conditions to Consider If Overweight or Obese
Body Composition Body Composition Measurement • Allows for the assessment of percentage of fat versus percentage of fat-free tissue.
Body Fatness of a Typical Man and Woman
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Skinfold Technique
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Other Body Composition Methods
Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Energy Expenditure: How We Use Calories
Causes of Overweight and Obesity
A Lifestyle Approach to Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight Determining Your Energy Balance Equation • Keep a careful daily food intake record • Keep a careful energy expenditure record Unbalancing the Energy Equation • Create a 3,500-calorie weekly deficit • Decrease intake by 250 calories • Increase expenditure by 250 calories
Physical Activity and Fat Loss •
Burns calories
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Ameliorates obesity-related diseases
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Leads to “waist loss”
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Compensates for RMR decline
Physical Activity and Fat Loss •
Minimizes loss of lean body mass
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Suppresses appetite
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Can lower set point
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Improves psychological well-being
Healthy Eating for Fat Loss
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Food intake modification
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Eating style modification
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Emotional eating
Healthy Eating for Fat Loss
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Focus on body fat, not weight
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Eat smaller, more frequent meals
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Eat slowly
Body Image and Weight
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Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa • Is characterized by a distorted body image, selfstarvation, and extreme weight loss.
Bulimia Nervosa • Is characterized by uncontrollable cycles of binge eating followed by purging through forced vomiting or the abuse of laxatives and diuretics.
Binge–Purge Cycle of Bulimia
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Eating Disorders Compulsive Overeating • Are similar to those with bulimia nervosa in that they may eat large amounts of food in a short period of time and exhibit a lack of control regarding their eating. • Compulsive eaters do not purge, and thus usually become obese.
Another Behavior Outlet Compulsive Exercising • Symptoms include repeated exercising beyond the requirements of what is considered safe.
The Female Triad