HPRM-205 Lecture 11: Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight

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Chapter 9: energy balance and healthy body weight. Being both overweight and underweight present health risks. People tend to control their weight but. Need to control adipose tissue in proportion to lean tissue, not our weight. We can"t directly control adipose to lean proportion; we can only control behaviors. The problems of too little or too much body fat. In siege or famine, underweight person will die before an overweight person because they don"t have enough fat in storage. In hospital, underweight person"s nutrient status can deteriorate if need to go without food (due to testing or surgery) Underweight increases risk of death for someone fighting a wasting disease (loss of body tissues) such as aids or cancer. Most of cancer patients die from not getting enough food and losing nutrients, not from cancer itself. The risk of heart disease is higher. Contribute m to us health expenditures every year. Extreme obesity, risk of dying equals that from smoking.

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