Foods and Nutrition 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Varicose Veins, Flat Feet, Kidney Stone Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Noelle Martin

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Don"t fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) : weight, controlling weight, short-term. Increased risk for diseases: risk of premature death. Obese: now declared a chronic disease, major risk for cvd, hbp, hd. Other risks: high blood lipids, sleep apnea, gout, arthritis, abdominal hernias, liver malfunction, flat feet, varicose veins, gallbladder disease, respiratory problems, kidney stones, complications in pregnancy, surgery. Men of all ages and women past menopause are more at risk, called apple profiles. Weight for height tables easy, inexpensive, inaccurate. Waist circumference visceral fatness in proportion to body fatness. Bmi is the most valuable for evaluating degrees of obesity, but less useful for evaluating non- obese people. Two major drawbacks are: failure to indicate how much of the weight is fat, failure to indicate where fat is located. Not suited for athletes, pregnant, or adults over 65. Density lean tissue is denser than fat. Hunger physiological need to eat, triggered by contracting empty stomach and small intestine, grehlin is released.