K1N334 Midterm2 Flashcards
What is the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Canada? %?
obesity ~20% and OW ~34%
What are the 5 changes (steps) since 2007 when looking at obesity?
- Declaration of obesity as a chronic disease (CMA, 2015)
- Impact of bias, stigma, and discrimination
- Advances in the Science of obesity and weight regulation
- Advances in Obesity Treatments & Therapies
- Recognition of patient-centered care and outcomes, beyond weight loss
What 2 things can be used as screening tools for obesity?
BMI and waist circumference
What is the new definition of obesity?
Obesity is defined as a prevalent, complex, progressive, and relapsing chronic disease characterized by abnormal or excessive body fat (adiposity) that impairs health.
What should the diagnosis of obesity be based on?
The presence of functional, medical, and/or psychosocial impairments related to the presence of abnormal or excess body fat rather than on anthropometric measures alone.
What was the old definition of obesity?
Defined by BMI, a measure of size, not health. Time to move away from a weight centric definition and focus on health.
What is the Goal of the obesity guidelines?
To improve the standard of, and access to, care for individuals with obesity across Canada.
What are the 2 key principles of obesity management?
- Obesity should be managed using evidence-based chronic disease management principles, must validate patients’ lived experiences, move beyond the simplistic approaches of “eat less, move more”, and address the root drivers of obesity.
- People who are living with obesity should have access to evidence-informed interventions, which should include medical nutrition therapy, physical activity, psychological interventions, pharmacotherapy, and surgery.
What directly impacts the health and well-being as well as access to care of people with obesity?
bias and stigma
What are 4 ways to recognize and address weight stigma?
- Health care providers should assess how their own beliefs and attitudes towards people with obesity influence health care delivery
- Health care providers should be aware that internalized weight bias (attitudes of people living with obesity towards themselves) can adversely affect behavioural and health outcomes
- Health care providers should avoid using judgmental words, images and practices when working with patients
- Health care providers should avoid assuming that an ailment or complaint a patient presents with is related to their body weight
What is Step 1 in the Five-Step (5As) Approach to Obesity Management?
Step 1 (ASK): Recognition of obesity as a chronic disease by the health care providers, who should ask the patient permission to offer advice and help treat this disease in an unbiased manner.
What is Step 2 in the Five-Step (5As) Approach to Obesity Management?
Step 2 (ASSESS): Assessment of an individual living with obesity using appropriate measurements, identifying the root causes, complications, and barriers to obesity treatment.
What is Step 3 in the Five-Step (5As) Approach to Obesity Management?
Step 3 (ADVISE): Discussion of the core treatment options (medical nutrition therapy and physical activity) and adjunctive therapies that may be required, including psychological, pharmacological, and surgical interventions.
What is Step 4 in the Five-Step (5As) Approach to Obesity Management?
Step 4 (AGREE): Agreement with the person living with obesity regarding goals of therapy, focusing mainly on the value that the person derives from health-based interventions.
What is Step 5 in the Five-Step (5As) Approach to Obesity Management?
Step 5 (ASSIST): Engagement by health care providers with the individual with obesity in continued follow-up and reassessments, and encouragement of advocacy to improve care for this chronic disease.
What are the 5 suggestions for step 2 (assessment) of the approach to obesity management?
- Healthcare providers involved in assessing people living with obesity use the 5As of Obesity Asking for their permission and assessing their readiness to initiate treatment.
- Healthcare providers can measure height, weight and calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) in all adults, and measure waist circumference in individuals with a BMI 25–35 kg/m2.
- Comprehensive history to identify root causes of weight gain as well as complications of obesity and identify potential barriers to treatment.
- We recommend blood pressure measurement in both arms, fasting glucose or glycated hemoglobin and lipid profile to determine cardiometabolic risk
- Consider using the Edmonton Obesity Staging System to determine the severity of obesity and to guide clinical decision making
What are the 3 Pillars of Obesity Management that Support Nutrition and Activity and which step is this a part of?
Step 3.
1. Psychological Intervention (behaviour modification, manage sleep, time stress, cognitive behavioural therapy).
2. Pharmacological Therapy (liraglutide, naltrexone, orlistat)
3. Bariatric Surgery (sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, biliopancreatic diversion)
What is the criteria for Pharmacological Therapy?
BMI >= 30kg/m2 or BMI >= 28kg/m2 with obesity related complications
What is the criteria for Bariatric Surgery?
BMI >= 40kg/m2 or
BMI >= 35-40kg/m2 with obesity related complications or
BMI >= 30kg/m2 with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
What are the 3 goals when defining success and what do they all require?
- Prevention (1 pound per year!)
- Losing weight
- Maintaining weight loss
All 3 goals require understanding of energy balance
What is clinically significant weight loss and how do you get there?
> 5% of baseline body weight
Reduces CV disease and type 2 diabetes risk factors
How do you get there?
* Diet
* Exercise
* Medications
* Surgery
* A combination?
How do you determine EE?
the total volume of physical activity
Volume = frequency x time
What is FITT in exercise?
- Frequency
- Intensity
- Time
- Type
Why would increasing EE for weight loss work?
- Effect on energy balance is proportional to increase in EE
- Increase fat and CHO oxidation would be expected to have favorable health consequences
Why wouldn’t increasing EE for weight loss work?
Achievable amounts of exercise lead to small increases in EE
Adherence to changes in exercise/PA is poor
Increasing EE could be linked to compensatory increases in EI
Why would increasing energy intensity for weight loss work?
- Same energy expenditure in less time
- Greater improvements in fitness and other risk factors
- Greater preservation of FFM
- Decreased appetite after High Intensity exercise
- Variety/More enjoyable for some people
Why wouldn’t increasing energy intensity for weight loss work?
- Less enjoyable
- Less accessible
- Greater risks/safety concerns
- Less self efficacy (belief in ability to perform such activities)
What are 2 types of energy intensities and how would each benefit weight loss?
1) Low intensity exercise
E.g., Intensity that maximizes fat oxidation?
(Lipoxmax; Fat(ox)max; Fatmax)
2) High intensity exercise
E.g., High intensity interval training (HIIT)?
EPOC?
At what intensity is the greatest absolute fat oxidation?
65%
At what intensity is the greatest relative fat oxidation?
25%
At what intensity is the greatest caloric expenditure, relative CHO oxidation and absolute CHO oxidation?
85%
What is the most important thing when trying to lose weight?
Adherence!
Why wouldn’t resistance training work for weight loss?
- Effect on FFM is small
- Effect on FFM during energy restriction is even smaller.
- Therefore effect on RMR is likely not meaningful
- Energy cost of resistance training is small
Why would resistance training work for weight loss?
Resistance training will cause:
- increased free living PA
- increased fat oxidation
- increased muscle mass
- increased RMR
- increased TEE
- decreased body fat
What is important about resistance training for weight loss?
- Not very effective for weight loss alone
- BUT can contribute to change in body composition
- Can be important for certain populations (elderly, diabetes) due to other important effect
- Improved metabolism
- Maintenance of function
Why would exercise for Class II/III obesity work?
- Can contribute to negative energy balance
- Can improve health
- Can improve quality of life
- Improve response to bariatric surgery
Why wouldn’t exercise for Class II/III obesity work?
- Fitness too low to achieve meaningful energy expenditure
- Too many co-morbidities that could be worsened by exercise (e.g., joint pain…)
- Time for exercise and fatigue from exercise could interfere with other activities
What are things to consider for Exercise for Class II/III obesity?
Access to your facility
Access to your equipment
Adapted exercises
Adapted places to sit, and changing facilities
What is the 1st guideline in the Canadian Obesity Guidelines?
- Aerobic physical activity (30-60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity most days of the week) can be considered for adults who want to:
⮚ Achieve small amounts of body weight and fat loss;
⮚ Achieve reductions in abdominal visceral fat and ectopic fat such as liver and heart fat, even in the absence of weight loss;
⮚ Favour weight maintenance after weight loss
⮚ Favour the maintenance of fat-free mass during weight loss;
⮚ Increase cardiorespiratory fitness and mobility
What is the 2nd guideline in the Canadian Obesity Guidelines?
- For adults living with overweight or obesity, resistance training may promote weight maintenance or modest increases in muscle mass or fat-free mass and mobility.
What is the 3rd guideline in the Canadian Obesity Guidelines?
- Increasing exercise intensity, including high-intensity interval training, can achieve greater increases in cardiorespiratory fitness and reduce the amount of time required to achieve similar benefits as from moderate-intensity aerobic activity.
What is the 4th guideline in the Canadian Obesity Guidelines?
- Regular physical activity can improve many cardiometabolic risk factors, including:
⮚ Hyperglycemia and insulin sensitivity
⮚ High blood pressure
⮚ Dyslipidemia
What is the 5th guideline in the Canadian Obesity Guidelines?
- Regular physical activity can improve health-related quality of life, mood disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety) and body image in adults with overweight or obesity
What is the strongest predictor of
death?
Exercise capacity
Absolute fitness is better predictor
12% improvement in survival in METS?
1 MET
What is the risk of death if METS <5?
Twice
What other advantages of physical activity for participants looking to lose weight:
- Fitness
- Quality of life/Independence
- Improvements in risk factors (glucose, BP)
- Fat distribution or quality?
- Prevention of weight regain
Why are the decisions to eat food complex?
– psychological & environmental
– initiation/termination of meals, size, composition, frequency
– lifestyle habits, drive to seek tasty foods, enjoyment, social
What is the Physiology of EI?
1) Afferent peripheral hormonal signaling
* Appetite (orexigenic)
* Satiety (anorexigenic)
2) Central integration
3) Efferent signaling
4) Behavioural change
What are 5 hormones that regulate energy intake and what part of the brain do they act on?
GHRELIN
PYY
PP
GLP-1
LEPTIN
Arcuate Nucleus “ARC Region” of the brain
What is the vagus nerve?
● Important source of indirect neuronal stimulation
● Composed of efferent/ afferent sensory fibers
● May be involved directly with CNS or indirectly with these peripheral peptides
What are 4 categories of exercise?
- Low-intensity continuous – <50% VO2max
- Moderate-intensity continuous – 50-70% VO2max
- High-intensity continuous – >70% VO2max
- Interval training
- HIIT – intervals up to maximal
*- SIT – intervals above maximal
What is the summary / results of recent EMRL work? (appetite regulation study)
- Novel human work
- Utilized exercise intensity and/or sodium bicarbonate supplementation to modulate endogenous lactate
- Data shows greater blood lactate accumulation is associated with greater suppression of ghrelin, appetite
- Investigations into potential other mechanisms involved (IL-6 & sex hormones) is ongoing
What is a “depot for energetic errors”?
Adipose tissue
What are the 7 steps of Medical Nutrition Therapy?
- Nutrition recommendations to meet
individual values for long term adherence - Receive individualized medical nutrition therapy from a registered dietitian to manage problems
- May receive medical nutrition therapy from a registered dietitian to reduce BW and circumference and improve glycemic control and blood pressure
- Can consider any of multiple medical nutrition therapies to improve health-related outcomes choosing options that lead to long term adherence
- Consider behavioural interventions that target a 5%–7% weight loss, to improve glycemic control, blood pressure and blood lipid targets, reduce type 2 diabetes
- Intensive lifestyle interventions that target a 7%–15% weight loss
- Nondieting approach to improve quality of life
What are 6 types of diets?
o Vegetarian diets
o Low fat diets
o Low Carbohydrate diets
o High Protein diets
o Very low Calorie diets
o Crash diets