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Lecture 10 - Weight Management: Overweight & Obesity Flashcards

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1
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Where is fat stored?

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Fat cells are stored in adipose tissue

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What does body fat reflect?

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Depending on what it looks like can reflect the number and size of fat cells

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When do fat cells grow the most?

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In growing years they grow the most rapidly

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What is adipose tissue similar to?

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An endocrine system

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What determines how our fat cells grow?

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It is genetically predisposed

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What happens when fat cells die off?

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They don’t really die off, they shrink

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Which demographic has a higher level of fat cells?

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Obese individuals have more fat cells

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How are fat cells developed?

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When energy in > energy out

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What happens when enlargement of fat cells becomes too much for adipose tissues?

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Fat may accumulate in other areas of the body

-visceral

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What happens to fat cells when energy out > energy in?

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  • Fat cell size decreases, there is no change in the NUMBER of fat cells
  • ectopic fat decreases
  • Adipokine profile begins to improve with as little as 5% weight loss
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What is LPL’s role in fat cell metabolism?

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LPL takes up triglycerides into tissues

-LPL activity is increased in obese people

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What does LPL levels depend on ?

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Genetics and where you store your fat

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What happens to LPL activity when you lose weight?

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LPL activity increases

  • is it released when fat cells shrink because the body thinks its not getting enough energy, so they shrink in hopes to regain the weight
  • very efficient at regaining the weight
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What is the set point theory?

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The body likes to maintain homeostasis

-body tries to adjust to original weight either by increasing metabolism or decrease LPL activity

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What are the main causes of overweight and obesity?

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Genetics: determine preposition to obesity

  • genetics interact with diet and physical activity
  • physical activity can minimize the genetic influence on body weight

Epigenetics

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What is Leptin?

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Act as a hormones in the hypothalamus to maintain homeostasis and promotes a negative energy balance

  • supresses appetite
  • increases energy expenditure
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17
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What is leptins nickname?

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The obese genes

  • produced in adipose tissue
  • codes for the leptin protein
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18
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What is leptin resistance?

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  • Production levels increase/decrease with BMI

- Does not suppress appetite or enhance energy expenditure

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What increases leptin resistance?

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Excessive fracture consumption induces leptin resistance and accelerates fat storage

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What is Ghrelin?

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Protein made in the stomach to stimulate appetite by actin on the hypothalamus

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How do levels of Ghrelin vary?

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Levels increase after weight loss

  • lack of sleep increases and decreases levels
  • we are sensitive to effects regardless of weight
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What happens if you lose the ability to produce leptin?

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Ghrelin will still be produced and at an even higher level

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23
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What is the cause of obesity and overweight ?

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Physical inactivity 
Childhood weight
Behavioural factors 
-food choices
-hunger vs appetite
Social factors
-expectation of body types
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24
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What is the DRI for physical activity?

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60 mins of moderate activity to prevent weight gain

150 min of moderate-vigorous activity per week for health benefits

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25
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Why doesn’t exercise lead to weight loss?

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Because NEAT accounts for those excessed calories, so exercise is just for health benefits

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26
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What is food?

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Essential for life
Symbol of culture
Ritual object
Product to be purchased
Cause pleasure, guilt and shame
27
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What are the physiological influences of food?

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Sight
Smell 
Sound
Texture
Taste
28
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Evolutionarilty speaking, why do we eat food?

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For energy purposes

-as a rule of thumb if it tastes good we can consume it can it can’t harm us

29
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Which is a stronger influence, hunger or satiety mechanisms?

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Hunger is stronger for survival reasons. Satiety is more easily overridden

30
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What is hunger?

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Prompts people to eat

31
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What sends the signal of satiety?

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Hypothalamus tells us we are full

32
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Why do we tent to like sweeter things?

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We are born with the unlearned preference for sweet things

-this taking to sweetness remains throughout the lifecycle

33
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Why do we have a tendency to like fatty things?

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Contributes to texture and increases palatability of other foods and tastes

34
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How do we learn food preferences?

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Is a learned behaviour based on +/- responses

Largely based on culture you were raised in

35
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What increases food acceptance/preferences?

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Repeated exposure

36
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What is a phsycological factor in the role of learning food?

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Food as a reward of punishment

-enticing individuals to consume these foods when high fat/sugar foods are already triggering the pleasure centres

37
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How does the environment affect food?

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The environment that we are in and all circumstances that we encounter daily interacts will our genes

38
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What is over eating due to?

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abundance of high kcal, inexpensive, tasty, advertised food

  • convenience
  • large serving size
  • ready to go meals
39
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What are some events that we associate food with?

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Baseball games
Movies
Birthday Parties
Holidays

40
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Why is commodifying food bad?

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Processed food with added sugar and fat are

  • cheaper to make and transport
  • last longer
  • offers a days worth of kcal for 1-2$
41
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Which groups are affected by income when it comes to food choices?

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Children
Seniors
Aboriginals
-not enough money to buy healthy foods

42
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What is the most important barrier to healthy eating?

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Inadequate income

43
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What is the poverty obesity paradox?

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Incomes is a social determine of health and an important predictor of health
1. Food insecurity
2. undernutrition and over nutrition
3. Malnutrition
Micronutrient deficiency a d obesity& NCDs

44
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Who is affected by food marketing?

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Everyone

-people may think they are immune but they are not

45
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Who receives food marketing the best?

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Children 8 years and up

  • under they don’t understand the internet of the message
  • under 4 can’t differentiate between TV and commercials
46
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When is weightless recommended?

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  • When 2 ore more risk factors for disease exist

- When a life threatening disease is present

47
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What is the biggest key to success for weight loss?

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Adhearence: I want to do it

Self advocacy: I can do it

Willpower

48
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What are perceptions of obsession people that would deter them from trying to lose weight if they have to?

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Discrimination
Appearance judgement
Laziness 
Lack of self control
Psychological problems
49
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What are the drug treatments for obesity?

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Orlistat: inhibits pancreatic lipase activity

Phentermine & diethylpropion: norepinephrine enhancers which decrease food intake

50
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What do strategies for weightless depend on?

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Degree of obesity

Risk of disease

51
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What is Roux-En-Y gastric bypass?

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Attaching the jejunum to the stomach, bypassing most of the stomach and the duodenum
-stomach pouch is 30-60ml

52
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What is the problem with Roux-En-Y?

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Many nutrients are absorbed in the duodenum, can lead to deficiencies

Highest risk of complication

53
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What is the good part about Roux-En-Y?

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Lowest failure rate

54
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What is a gastric sleeve?

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Portion of the stomach (top to bottom) is removed

  • Stomach functions normally and sphincters remain intack
  • size is 100-150ml
55
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What is the downside tot he gastric sleeve?

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Reduced the production of Ghrelin

56
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What are 3 things to do to make sure the weight stays off?

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  1. Keep a food record
  2. Walk 150 minutes minimum/week
  3. Self weigh periodically
57
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What is one thing that is hard for people to come to terms with in losing weight?

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Setting reasonable goals

-people aren’t happy because they were unsuccessful but their expectation was unrealistic

58
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What are reasonable weight goals?

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Small changes
Moderate losses
10% bodyweight in 6 month

59
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When do you see health benefits occur with weightless?

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When modest weight loss (5-10% of body weight)

60
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What are weightless strategies for eating plans?

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Realistic energy intake
Avoid starvation and deprivation
Eat small portions
WATER

61
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What are weightless strategies for behaviours and attitudes?

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  • Behaviour modifications (positive, matter of fact)
  • Keep records of behaviours
  • Change behaviour (small, practice, reward)
62
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What does it mean when your body is plateau-ing?

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Body is adjusting to new weight

63
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What takes more effort, prevention or gaining?

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More effort to prevent the weight regain than to prevent weigh gain

64
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What does political will have too do with healthy eating?

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They have the capacity to make large scale changes to promote healthy behaviours

  • food guide
  • %daily value
  • Nutrition facts table

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