NUTR 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Body Mass Index, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
29 Jan 2017
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Describe the national recommendations for physical activity for adults. Understand key factors influencing disease risk among adults in canada. Identify key nutrients of concern for this life stage. Bmi is the mathematical relationship between height (m2) and weight (kg). When viewing reports from the canadian community health (cchs) 2. 2, there may be references to estimated or measured values. Are measurements taken by an interviewer and are considered more accurate. Waist circumference is actually a perimeter which provides an estimate of body girth at the level of the abdomen. Excess abdominal fat is associated with an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases including: Waist circumference is often used as a surrogate marker of abdominal fat mass (klein et al. Nutrients of concerns are usually listed for women in the text as: Some dietary intakes are habitually higher and others are lower than the dris. Decline in lean mass; increase in fat mass. Information from the canadian population health initiative in 2004 found:
