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Lecture 4 Flashcards

1
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What is the difference between being physically inactive and sedentary?

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PI: Not meeting physical activity guidelines

Sed: not meeting the guidelines

-We know that they are cumulative in terms of risk to your health

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2
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Are Sed and PI dependent risk factors?

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No, Both are independent risk factors

• People who are sed have an increase risk of being physically inactive

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How do you assess the public health impacts of PI?

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• Look at the prevalence of inactivity

• Estimate the proportion of disease that is attributable to inactivity
○ If it leads to disease then we want to look at it

• Estimate the financial burden
○ How much it costs

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4
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What is the % chance you develop Type 2 DM if you are PI?

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almost 75% of developing if PI

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If you are PI what are you at risk of developing?

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Coronary artery
Stroke
Hypertension
Colon Cancer
Breast Cancer
Type 2 DM
Osteoporosis
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What % of total health care costs are attributed to PI?

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4% of 7 billion

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What can we do to the 4% of healthcare costs to reduce it?

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This is a lifestyle choice and is hard to change. But it is a modifyable risk factor to disease

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What is the definition of sedentary behaviour?

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Any waking behaviour characterized by an energy expenditure pof less than 1.5 METs while in a sitting or reclining position

-1MET is sitting down and doing completely nothing, not moving

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What are some activities that are classified as sedentary behaviour?

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• Sitting for long period of time
-Accumulated a lot of time at once then that’s really bad
• Motorized transportation
• Watching tv
• Playing passive video games
• Playing on a computer
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What are the harms of being sedentary?

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Independent of physical activity being sed also increases your risk of:

  • disease,
  • lowers
  • mortality
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In children and youth, what is TV watching more than 2 hours/day was associated with?

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○ Unfavourable body comp
-Increase BMI, fat mass
○ Decrease fitness
○ Lowered scored on self esteem
○ Lowered scores on pro social behaviour
- Increase behaviour problems, aggression
○ Decreased academic achievement
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When eating infant of the TV how many more cals are you consuming?

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228cals more

~3.6kg wt gain per year

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13
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Why is eating infant of a TV bad?

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Provides a distraction of a habituation that indices over eating.

Not paying attention to satiety cues

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14
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What should we promote instead of eating in-front of the tv?

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eating at a table, conversation,
seeing what parents are eating,
belonging to a group
sharing

• Kids less likely to do the risky behaviours, like drinking, smoking and teen pregnancies

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What happens when kids sit infront of a TV and eat then told they aren’t allowed to go outside or have energetic play inside?

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• When kids infront of TV they eat, more cals eaten, this trend is increasing .

If this isnt offset by expenditure then we have more wt gain

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16
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How does media influence dietary intake in children?

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• Use of celebs and sports figures
• Sponsorship
• Branding 
• Incentives and promos
• Product placement (in stores)
• Advertisements like pop up adds
• Advergames
Word of mouth
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17
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Can we access consumer market research that big companies are doing?

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Don’t have access to hwat research they have on consumer markets because they privately pay for it
-so we would have to pay big $$ for it

18
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How many add/yr do children see online?

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• Currently canadian children see about 25 million food amd beverage add per year on their fav website, 90% of which are unhealthy prodcuts

19
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How many adds dochildren see per hours of watching TV?

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• Children view 4-5 ads per hour of TV of which 65-80% of porducts do not meet current dietary guidelines

20
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Are there any measures in place to prevent advertising unhealthy foods to children?

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To date only voluntary measures have been ased of companies and have been relatively unsuccessful
○ They advertised more to kids even though they said they’d join the initiative
○ With the regulations in the works they are deciding what % areas on the web to ban advertising
○ Figuring out what to ban, product has 15% or more of sugar fat and salt. Could have some casualties along with deciding

21
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What things influence kids and adolescents beverage choices?

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○ Music
○ Slogans	
○ Celebs
○ Repeated exposure
○ Cool and funny
○ Attractive packaging
22
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How much time per day are children/youth being sedentary?

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Children and youth are spending 8.6hours a day 62% in sedentary pursuits.
-Don’t take into account homework but make it up in the weekend

23
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What are the reasons for sedentary behaviour in children?

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entertainment,
social time
boredom

24
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What are the factors that influence the use of sedentary time?

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○ Attitudes toward screen time and PAscreens in bedroom
○ Participation in sports or afterschool programming
- Need access
○ Parental rules and behaviours
- Eating together, no screens in rooms
○ Fam income
Access to resources to do the other things

25
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Based on successful SED interventions what are the results of reductions in SED behaviour ?

A

Improve PA

Improve diet, including decreased SSB consumption

26
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What do multicomponent interventions need to have?

A

Nutrition

PA

27
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Why are SED interventions more successful in the home environment and not at school?

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Non education setting are more successful in school cause they are sitting more at home, in that 2 hours after school
-they need to sit and pay attention in school

○ Need more alternatives in the home environemtn. Don’t tell kids not to waytch tv then not give them something else as an option

28
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How many hours a day are adults and older adults being sedentary?

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Adults 10hrs/day bing sed
• Not even spread out well

Older adults 5-9hrs/day being sed
• More time to be active

29
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What are the factors affecting SED time in adults at the individual level?

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• Age
• PA level
• BMI
• SES (education, income, employment)
• Mood (attitudes, enjoyment, stress)
• Married
- Can be beneficial or hinderance
• Having children
- Can be beneficial or hinderance
30
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What are the factors affecting SED time in adults at the environmental level?

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  • Proximity to green space
  • Neighbourhood walkability and safety
  • weather
31
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Can you be active and sedentary?

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You can be meeting the 150/day HITT and getting all the CV benefits but you can still be sedentary

32
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Who is adiposity tissue highest in?

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people that are inactive and sedentary

-One and not the other is better but not the best

33
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Who is more active, girls or boys?

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Boy are more active but they also sit more

34
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What is the best predictor of health?

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Moderate to vigorous physical activity is still the best predictor of health.

  • Although sedentary eats away at the benefit of the moderate to vigorous activity
35
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How dow e break up prolonged sitting?

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  • Standing desks
  • Bathroom breaks
  • Weights in office
  • Walking mettings
  • Don’t watch advertisement/commercials
  • Something to beep at you to move/stretch
  • Kids can earn screen time
36
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What is nature deficit disorder?

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Children are spenfing more time indoors which leads to:

  • Less PA
  • More sedentary behaviour (especially if confined to house)
37
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What is the important of free unstructured play?

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• Promotes creativity and imagination
• Builds dexterity and physical strength
• Leads to healthy brain development
- Learn to work in groups
- Learn to share negotiate and resolve conflicts
- Learn self advocacy skills
• Time outside increase PA
- By 27mins if they were outside for1hr
• More nature (less stress and better attention)
• Added benefit and appreciation for the environment and potential desire to preserve it

38
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In the position statement what reasons do they give for outdoor play being safer than you think?

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  • odds are very low that someone will take your kid
  • serious injuries aren’t common
  • kid more likely to die in car
39
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In the position statement, what re the reasons they give that its bad for kids to spend too much time inside?

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  • on screens more they are more likely to encounter cyber-predators
  • Air quality not as great
  • increase in developing chronic diseases because of all the sedentary behaviour
40
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What is hyper-parenting?

A

Limits physical activity and can harm mental health

  • when kids are supervised outside they are less active
  • over-scheduling
  • playdates
41
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What kind of play structures do kids prefer?

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Natural play structures

-natural environment

42
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Based on the position statement why is outdoor play good?

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  • Facilitates socialization with peers, community and environment
  • Reduces feelings of isolation
  • builds interpersonal skills
  • Facilitates healthy development

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