CH-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Environmental Policy, Body Shape, Fad Diet

• School: Tufts University
• Department: Community Health
• Course: CH-0001
• Professor: Jennifer Allen

Document Summary

Increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity all age groups. World health organization: primary screening measure, subdivisions of obesity, grade 1 obesity: bmi 30. 0-34. 9, grade 2 obesity: bmi 35. 0-39. 9, grade 3 obesity: bmi 40. 0+ (extreme obesity) If so, how: how can we know whether a food environment is healthy, how can unhealthy food environments be improved, food is connected to virtually everything, we need it! Income: vehicle ownership/ transportation, food availability, not having access to healthy food/ not having enough food food security, food security- assess by all people at all times to sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Identify priority health outcomes (obesity, diabetes, food insecurity) Identify targets for intervention at the level of the individual, community, population and policy levels. We (cid:374)eed to (cid:272)ut (cid:271)a(cid:272)k the a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of food (cid:449)e"(cid:396)e eating, and critically consider (cid:449)hat t(cid:455)pes (cid:449)e"(cid:396)e eati(cid:374)g: the evide(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:272)lear: e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ise is e(cid:454)(cid:272)elle(cid:374)t for health, (cid:271)ut it"s (cid:374)ot important for weight loss.