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Body Image and Weight Management

Explore the intricate connection between body image, weight management, and health. Understand when and why we eat, including how factors like mood, social occasions, and advertising influence our food choices. Learn about essential concepts like Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), the importance of maintaining healthy weight, and proper body composition metrics such as BMI and waist-to-hip ratio. Discover the significance of healthy eating and exercise for achieving your ideal body shape while avoiding unhealthy weight loss practices.

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Body Image and Weight Management

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  1. Body Image and Weight Management

  2. When are you hungry? • When do you eat? • Factors that effect food intake • Smell and taste of food • Mood • Family traditions / ethnic background • Social occasions • Religious traditions • Advertising • Cost and availability

  3. Needed Energy • Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) • The minimum amount of energy needed to keep you alive when you are in a rested, fasting state.

  4. Maintaining Weight • Stay the same weight • Input = output • Gain weight • Input > output • Loose weight • Input < output

  5. Healthy “Weight” • What is a healthy weight? • Both Claim to be 250 lbs.

  6. Body Composition • Is a person’s weight a good indicator if they are healthy? • Can a person be thin and unhealthy/out of shape? • Determining Proper Body Composition • Weight • Body Mass Index • Waist-to-Hip Ratio • Total % Body Fat

  7. BMI • Height and weight give a BMI number

  8. BMI • What are some of the limitations of the BMI chart? • Individuals with a lot of muscle will have a high BMI number, but have a low % body fat • (Body fat vs. lean mass) • Invented in 1830, based on western European body types

  9. Waist-to-Hip Ratio • Helps to measure dangerous “visceral” belly fat • At risk for liver problems, insulin resistance, and heart attacks • Measure around your waist and hips. • Men (33-37 inches), Women (31-35 inches) • Men ratio: 0.9+ is considered “at risk” • Female ratio: 0.8+ is considered “at risk”

  10. % Body Fat • Get straight to the issue – measure body fat • According to Thomas Owens, M.D., Duke University Medical Center

  11. Achieving Ideal Body Shape • The only way to alter one’s body shape in a healthy manner is to include healthy eating and exercise • Loosing more than 1 pound a week may result in the lose of muscle mass.

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