Midterm 3

Question 1

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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Question 2

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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Question 3

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

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Question 4

What life changes in adulthood increase the risk of weight gain

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Question 5

list the health risks of overweight and obesity

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

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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Question 9

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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Question 10

List the complication associated with weight cycling

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Question 11

List the possible complications associated with rapid weight loss

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Question 12

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

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Question 13

What is the correct method for measuring waist circumference?

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Question 14

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

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Question 15

What are the national guidelines in regards to loosing weight

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Question 16

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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Question 17

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

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Question 18

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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Question 19

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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Question 20

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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Question 21

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

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Question 22

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

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Question 23

What is meant by Self monitering

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Question 24

What is meant by portion control

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Question 25

What is meant by stimulus control

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Question 26

What is meant by Cue suppression

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Question 27

What is meant by Contingency contracting

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Question 28

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

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Question 29

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

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Question 30

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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Question 31

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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Question 32

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

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Question 33

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

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Question 34

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

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Question 35

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

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Question 36

What are the drawbacks of nonintervention studies on dietary cancer prevention

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Question 37

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

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Question 38

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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Question 39

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

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Question 40

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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Question 41

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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Question 42

Lycopene- principle food source

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Question 43

indole-3-carbinol principle food source

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Question 44

isoflavones- principle food source

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Question 45

lignans- principle food source

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Question 46

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

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lycopene, indole-3-carbinol, isoflavones, lignans

Question 47

Which dietary fats are associates with lower risk of cancer?

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Question 48

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

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Question 49

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

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Question 50

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

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Question 51

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

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