The Obesity Epidemic

Question 1

Globesity

Answer 1

obesity that affects a very large percentage of the global population

Question 2

Excess adiposity

Answer 2

high amount of body fat in relation to lean mass

Question 3

(Withrow & Alter, 2011)

Answer 3

Obese individuals were found to have medical costs that were approximately 30% greater than their normal weight peers

Question 4

(Scarborough et al., 2011)

Answer 4

Weight loss appears to be the most effective therapy for obesity and related comorbidity

Question 5

Obesity epidemic?

Answer 5

1980, the prevalence of obesity has doubled in more than 70 countries

Linked to reductions in physical activity owing to more mechanized and technologically driven lifestyles and less healthy diets

Question 6

Why is there a “globesity”?

Answer 6

• Evolution
• Effect of the Cost-of-Living Crisis
• Effect of the Covid-19 pandemic

(Anyanwu et al., 2022; McBribe et al., 2021)
* McKeown (1979)– The Role of Medicine

Contemporary illness is caused by “influences…which the individual determines by own behaviour on modification of personal habits such as smoking and sedentary living that health primarily depends dominant illnesses such as lung cancers caused by behaviour’s

Question 7

Cost of living crisis- COVID 19

Answer 7

• Affording to eat?
• Skipping meals, buying cheaper/ lower quality food
• How does one reduce cost
• Affect health and wellbeing?

Question 8

EFFECTS of COVID-19

Answer 8

• Eating more (especially if already overweight)
• Snacking more
• Less fruit and veg
• More unhealthy food (emotional eating)
• More prolonged sitting
• 25% report lower PA
• Some report PA maintenance and increase (but still below the recommended levels)

Question 9

• (McBribe et al., 2021)

Answer 9

Healthy and unhealthy weight
Body mass index used to describe healthy weight