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Midterm 3 Flashcards

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Describe the current clinical guidelines for evaluating overweight patients and establishing whether weight loss should be recommended. What three pieces of information do you need to perform this evaluation?

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What percentage of the adult population is currently overweight? How was prevalence of overweight in teenagers changed in the last 30 years?

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Describe the importance of genetics and childhood development in the current understanding of obesity

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What life changes in adulthood increase the risk of weight gain

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list the health risks of overweight and obesity

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Describe the importance of learned eating behaviours and the social environment in the current understanding of obesity

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Describe the importance of the food environment in the current understanding of obesity

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Describe how the clinician can better understand the health risks of his obese patient through the history, physical lab assessment process

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What kind of diet is most likely to decrease metabolic rate, result in poorer results and increased risk of weight regain?

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10
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List the complication associated with weight cycling

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List the possible complications associated with rapid weight loss

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What is metabolic fitness and how does this concept differ from traditional approaches for treating obesity

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13
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What is the correct method for measuring waist circumference?

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What preexisting risk factors are used to gauge the potential impact of overweight or high waist circumference.

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What are the national guidelines in regards to loosing weight

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What important information about obstacles to your patient’s attempts to lose weight might be discovered in their family history? In their personal health history?

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What therapeutic objectives are even more important than weight loss when considering how to manage an overweight patient?

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List some potential contraindications to recommending weight loss, wvwn when supported by the national guidelines? How might these contraindications be minimized?

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What questions are useful to ask a patient to determine whether they are truly ready to achieve long term weight loss?

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What is a reasonable initial goal for weight loss? What alternative goals can be set instead of a weight loss goal?

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How would you decide which type of weight loss diet is most suitable for a patient?

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22
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How beneficial is exercise as a strategy for weight reduction and weight maintenance?

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23
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What is meant by Self monitering

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24
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What is meant by portion control

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What is meant by stimulus control

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26
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What is meant by Cue suppression

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27
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What is meant by Contingency contracting

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28
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Why would joining a support group increase the chances for successful weight loss?

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29
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In what cirumstances might referral to counseling professionals be advisable as part of a weight loss program?

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30
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What supplements are supported by good scientific evidence that they can help a patient safely lose weight? What are the drawbacks to these supplements?

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31
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Which weight loss supplements are intended to stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and therefore may produce side effects of elevated blood sugar heart rate etc.

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32
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a high protein diet for achieving and maintaining weight loss?

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33
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a low fat, high carb diet for achieving and maintaining weight loss

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34
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What are the arguments put forward by proponents of the Health at Every Size moments

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35
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What are the arguements put forwards by Glenn Gaesser PhD in his article Obesity, Health and Metabolic Fitness

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36
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What are the drawbacks of nonintervention studies on dietary cancer prevention

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37
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Describe the role of specific dietary fats, plant foods, and food-based versus supplemental antioxidents in the prevention of cancer?

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38
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What are the likely reasons that intervention research using beta-carotene supplements could not replicate the promising findings about the cancer prevention potential of a high betacarotene diet?

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39
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Which vegetables belong the the Brassica family? also know as cruciferous vegetables?

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40
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Which antioxidents have some evidencee for helping prevent specific cancers? Which is the only cancer site where an antioxidant combination was shown to reduce risk?

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41
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Why is read meat intake sometimes, but not always, related to cancer risk? How does meat preparation appear to influence cancer risk?

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42
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Lycopene- principle food source

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43
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indole-3-carbinol principle food source

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44
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isoflavones- principle food source

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lignans- principle food source

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46
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phytochemicals thought to have cancer preventive activity with their principle food sources

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lycopene, indole-3-carbinol, isoflavones, lignans

47
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Which dietary fats are associates with lower risk of cancer?

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48
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Explain the controversy surrounding the effects of soy and soy isoflavones on cancer risk

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49
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Explain the current evidence for the role of vitamin D in cancer prevention

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50
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What nutrients found in a multivitamin-mineral may help reduce cancer risk?

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51
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Which B-vitamin may help prevent cancer in alcohol users?

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