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Nutrition and Weight Control: Understanding Diet and Exercise for a Healthier You

This chapter delves into the key components of food like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and additives. It explores the impact of diet on health, covering topics such as atherosclerosis, lipoproteins, hypertension, and cancer. Understanding overweight and obesity, as well as the biological and psychosocial factors influencing weight control, is crucial for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The chapter also discusses different treatments to lose weight effectively, including self-efficacy, exercise, behavioral techniques, and medical interventions. Furthermore, it touches upon disorders like anorexia and bulimia, emphasizing the importance of exercise for both psychosocial and physiological well-being.

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Nutrition and Weight Control: Understanding Diet and Exercise for a Healthier You

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  1. Nutrition, Weight Control, Diet, and Exercise Dr. A. H. Teich Chap 8 - Sarafino

  2. Nutrition • Components of Food • Carbohydrates • Lipids • Proteins • Vitamins & Minerals • Fiber • Additives

  3. Diet and Health • Atherosclerosis • Lipoproteins • low-density lipoprotein (LDLs) • very‑low density lipoproteins (VLDLs) • high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) • Hypertension • sodium and caffeine • Cancer • high fat, low fiber diet

  4. Overweight and Obesity • Overweight • 10 to 20% over desirable weights • BMI: 25-30 • Obesity • 20% over desirable weights • BMI: >30

  5. Why People Become Overly Fat • Excess calories • fat tissue: metabolically less active than lean tissue • Sedentary lifestyle • Heredity

  6. Biological Factors in Weight Control • Biological Factors • Set-point theory • hypothalamus • short-term regulation • long term regulation • Fat cell hyperplasia • Insulin

  7. Psychosocial Factors in Weight Control • Psychosocial Factors • Lifestyle • External food cues • Restraint theory

  8. Overweight and Health • Related diseases • Fat distribution • Prevention • Parents • Children • School-based programs

  9. Treatments to Lose Weight • Self‑efficacy & social support • Commercial and ''Fad Diet'' Plans • Exercise • Behavioral Techniques

  10. Treatments to Lose Weight • Self-help Groups • Medically Supervised Approaches • Rx • VLCDs • Surgery • gastric restriction or liposuction

  11. Anorexia and Bulimia • Anorexia nervosa • Bulimia nervosa

  12. Exercise • Types • isotonic exercise • isometric exercise • isokinetic exercise • aerobic exercise

  13. Exercise • Psychosocial benefits • Physiological effects

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