PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fast Food Restaurant, Childhood Obesity, Genuine Risk

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC2013
• Professor: Fiona White

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In many ways, kids are kids, infants are infants, adolescents are adolescents. Bmi is less than 18. 5 = underweight. Bmi is 18. 5 to <25 = normal. Bmi is 25 to <30 = overweight. Bmi is 30 or higher = obese. Overweight = bmi at or above the 85th percentile and below the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex. Obesity = bmi at or above the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex. 1 in 4 australian children are overweight or obese. It"s not getting worse, we missed the rise in obesity and the rate is plateauing now. Maybe not - but we didn"t catch the rise. Differential disease - unevenly distributed in the population. Childhood obesity is more prevalent in big cities than in country towns - false. The physical environment of your area is a genuine risk factor for childhood obesity -