PSYC 314 Lecture Notes - Cirrhosis, Psychological Science, Bruce Willis
Document Summary
Health enhancing behaviours: good things you can do to improve your health: diet and exercise. Health compromising: smoking, alcohol abuse, drug use: health enhancing. Diet: obesity: excessive accumulation of body fat. Increases risk for cardiovascular disease, type ii diabetes, cancer, early mortality. Psychosocial implications: discrimination, depression obesity: an excessive accumulation of body fat. Based on bmi calculation based on weight and height. If you are obese you increase your risk for cancer, type ii diabetes, dying earlier in life and cardiovascular disease. % of canadian young adults (20-24) are overweight: on average males are obese more than females. the averave is about 25% Dieting: typically produces small changes over the long run. Appetite suppressing drugs: quick drops in weight but are not long lasting. Surgery: gastric bypass surgery so you physically cannot take in as much food. Adults ages 18-64 are supposed to exercise 2. 5 hours (150 minutes) per week of activity.
