Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cholecystokinin, Underweight, Abdominal Obesity

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2000A/B
• Professor: Cheryl Madlinger

Document Summary

What is obesity: watch the video- good summary of the class. Beyond bmi: calculation: weight (kg)/ height (m)^2, waist circumference and wait to hip measurements, measures of abdominal obesity, excess fat carried around the abdomen automatically increase your risk factors with htn, cvd and chance of. This not to suggest that obesity is simply a matter of poor willpower leading to gluttony and laziness. The situation is more complex than this and some of the factors that determine energy intake and energy expenditure appear to (cid:271)e outside of our (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol. (cid:863) Obese ppl usually have a higher resting metabolic rate. Since they are bigger it takes more energy to keep them alive. Energy in: hormones affect appetite and food intake, leptin, ghrelin- make you eat more (think of it like a gremlin, cholecystokinin, glucagon-like peptide 1, oxyntomodulin, pancreatic polypeptide, peptide yy.