Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Traffic Calming, Heredity, Canadian Cancer Society

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Behaviours and issues: the importance of a healthy heart, brief overview about, heart functioning, coronary heart disease, heart healthy and risky issues and behaviours (obesity, stress, fam history, smoking) these are all interrelated, cancer. Importance of healthy heart: avoid medical procedures, complications, side-effects of drug therapies, keeps the rest of the body going, tool for activities of daily life, longevity. Factors and behaviours related to healthy/ unhealthy heart: obesity and overweight, physical activity and dietary intake (implications for heart and more, stress, smoking, hereditary. Who has it: o(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed a sig(cid:374) of (cid:449)ealth a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)ospe(cid:396)it(cid:455) (cid:374)o(cid:449) not so rare, and (cid:374)ot so (cid:858)desi(cid:396)a(cid:271)le(cid:859) Epidemiology: world-wide, more than 1. 9 billion adults overweight; 39% overweight; 13% obese: 41 million children (below 5 years) overweight, most of the world lives in countries where overweight and obesity kill more than underweight, obesity more than doubled since 1980. **keep in mind publication dates behind actual data!