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Weight Management & Eating Disorders Flashcards

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What is BMI?

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  • body mass index
  • calculated by dividing weight in kg by height in m
  • healthy range is 18.5 to 24.9
  • overweight defined as 25 to 29.9
  • obesity is >30
  • kids use growth charts
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Are those with a higher BMI always at risk for chronic diseases?

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  • no; sometimes people just have a high muscle mass

- BMI does not measure body composition or fat percentage

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Why is location of body fat important?

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  • health risks increased when fat stored in abdominal region (visceral fat)
  • pear-shaped better than apple-shaped
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What dictates where fat is deposited?

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  • mainly genes

- influenced by stress, smoking, and alcohol use

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Why is visceral fat harmful?

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  • metabolically active, pumps out adipokines and TNF-alpha
  • close to surrounding organs, between and around organs
  • subcutaneous fat around hips and thighs less harmful
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What waist circumference is correlated with increased health risk?

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Men: >102 cm/40”
Women: > 88 cm/35”
- Asian ethnicity targets are lower because cannot tolerate as much visceral adiposity without adverse effects

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What determines our weight?

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  • balance between energy taken in and energy expended
  • if we expend more than we consume, we lose weight, and vice versa
  • also more complex than this as well
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What is the minimum amount fo weight loss to recommend for health?

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5% of body weight - will return client to normal glycemic state

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What nutrients are used first in a meal?

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  • protein first, they provide substrates for protein synthesis in cells
  • next, carbs are used to replenish glycogen stores and provide glucose to tissues
  • extra converted to TGs
  • fat is last
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Why is fat favourable to store?

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  • provides the most calories per gram

- no process to change it when ingested

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Why do physically active people have greater caloric needs?

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  • need more energy

- muscle uses more energy than fat

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What is total energy expenditure (TEE)?

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  • total amount of calories used

- includes basal metabolic processes, metabolism of food and activity

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Energy used for activity includes…

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Exercise and non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)

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What is the thermic effect of food?

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  • energy expended in digestion, absorption, metabolism and storage of ingested macronutrients
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What effect does starvation or fasting have on BMR?

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Decreases BMR

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Can we determine if someone needs to make lifestyle modifications based on weight?

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No; should also measure waist circumference

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Stress, fever, and illness have what effect on BMR?

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Increases BMR

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What is the correlation between excess body fat and disease risk?

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  • overweight have 1-1.5x greater risk

- risk sharply increases with obese or extremely obese individuals

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What is leptin?

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Hormone that signals whether or not to take in more food and expend more or less energy

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Leptin levels are proportionate to…

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Fat levels in the body

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How is leptin related to insulin?

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Insulin levels are thought to affect the release of leptin and work with leptin to control body fat levels

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Leptin in obese individuals?

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There is plenty of leptin, but it does not seem to inhibit food intake or increase energy output as in normal weight individuals

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What is the leptin feedback mechanism ?

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  • weight loss decreases leptin, results in increased intake and decreased expenditure
  • weight gain increases leptin, results in decreased intake and increased expenditure
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What hormones are involved in food intake regulation?

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  • leptin
  • GLP-1 (similar to glucagon)
  • ghrelin (stimulates hunger)
  • CCK
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Why is there an increase in obesity, and why are children affected?
- increase amount of food consumed, along with decrease in exercise - processed fast food is becoming normalized - children affected due to the diet and activity of their parents - reduction in physical education, computer and video games, parental concern for safety - proportion distortion
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If BMI < 25...
No weight loss needed
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If BMI 25-29.9 and waist circumference > 35 or 40...
Assess for at least two obesity-related risk factors; if present weight loss recommended
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If BMI > 30...
Weight loss recommended
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What tool can be used to stage people with obesity?
- EOSS (Edmonton Obesity Staging System) - stage 0-4 - based on obesity-related risk factors, physical symptoms, psychological symptoms, and functional limitations
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What is yo-yo dieting?
- process of repeatedly going on fad diets to achieve rapid weight loss - results in decreased in BMR, fatigue, and food cravings - when person returns to former eating habits, will gain weight back due to low BMR and overeating - cyclic, repetitive nature - better to adopt small, healthy, realistic habits and eating patterns
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Are overweight clients always overnourished?
No; if eating unhealthy foods then can be undernourished at the same time
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Behaviour modification is...
- the goal of any lifestyle intervention - short-term fad diets unlikely to permanently change behaviour or maintain weight loss - fad diets generate money for the inventor - slow, sustainable changes have better results
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Plant-derived protein and fat...
Is associated with lower mortality
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Both high and low carbohydrate diets...
Are associated with high mortality
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What is an effective strategy for monitoring eating behaviours?
Keeping a diet log or journal
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What is bariatric surgery?
- GI tract is altered to reduced food intake and nutrient absorption - gastric banding or gastric bypass
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When is bariatric surgery indicated?
- indicated for extremely obese persons with BMI > 30 - need to have some sort of limitation to which other attempts at weight loss have failed - more and more of these surgeries being done
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What is gastric banding?
- band tightened or loosened over time to change size of opening from esophagus to stomach - allows less food to be consumed at one time, comfortably, and slows the rate of stomach emptying
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What is gastric bypass?
- most common type of bariatric surgery - size of stomach is effectively decreased to limit intake - length of the small intestine is shortened, which limits absorption - reattached to upper new stomach pouch - lifelong changes must be made in eating habits and sufficient nutrients ingested, since absorption is decreased
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What is gastric sleeve?
- 85% of outer stomach portion is removed
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Why are eating disorders a problem today?
- constantly bombarded with images of thin, muscular models - difficult to achieve with normal food intake - inability to achieve this ideal leads to poor self image and self esteem
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How have cultural body ideals changed?
- changed drastically from early 1900s, when fuller, more curvaceous figures were sought after - models have become thinner and thinner - the incidence of EDs have increased - weights of models are about 25% lower than the average women, as opposed to 8% diference 40 years ago
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What is distorted body image?
- difference between ideal and attainable causes individual to see themselves as fat - leads to reduced food intake and weight restriction
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Can individuals be genetically predisposed to eating disorders?
- yes; inherited susceptible personality traits, a body type that may not meet their ideal, hunger and satiety - combines with societal pressures and ideals, low self-esteem, need for self-control, and distorted body image - manifested as an ED during adolescence
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What proportion of girls in grade 9 and 10 had tried to lose weight in last year?
30%
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How many females will be affected by EDs in their lifetime?
3%
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What are OSFEDs?
- other specified feeding or eating disorders - covers disorders where clinically significant distress and impairment of functioning are present but criteria for other disorders not met
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Malnourished individuals are at risk for...
Ongoing infections
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What are the three main categories of eating disorder?
- anorexia nervosa - bulimia nervosa - binge eating
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What is anorexia?
- persistent restriction of energy intake that leads to significantly low body weight - intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat - disturbed body image - new DSM-5 criteria have changed to drop amenorrhea - subtypes include restricting and binge-eating or purging type
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What is bulimia?
- repeated binging episodes, with a feeling of lack of control over eating - repeated compensation after binging by vomiting, misuse of laxatives, or excessive exercise to prevent weight gain - new guidelines say one episode per week for 3 months - disturbed body image
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What is the female athlete triad?
- pressures in certain sports, such as gymnastics, to maintain a lean, thin body can lead to energy restriction - energy restriction and excessive exercise can upset hormonal balance - low estrogen levels can cause amenorrhea - osteoporosis is also a result of low estrogen levels due to low peak bone mass, premature bone loss, increased stress fractures
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What are visible signs of vitamin C deficiency?
- bruising and bleeding under the skin | - due to collagen deficiency
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