KNES 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Breastfeeding, Breast Milk, Childhood Obesity

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNES 355
• Professor: Matthew Spencer

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Knes 355 lecture 28 obesity in childhood & adolescence (cont"d) Consequences of obesity for children and adolescents: naturally, obese children and adolescents present a profile of risk factors that characterize several diseases that ordinarily become manifest in adults (hyperlipidemia, hypertension, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes mellitus). In the obese individual, there appears to be some association with advanced maturity status throughout late childhood and adolescence, not resulting in a difference in adult height. Relative arm strength : obese individuals have higher absolute strength, lean individuals have higher relative strength, not a dramatic change with increasing age in relative arm strength but there is one in absolute strength) Increase in body mass acts as a form of resistance that leads to muscle hypertrophy in the lower body muscles. Top right because it"s the only one where there is no apparent difference between the obese and the non-obese.