PSYCH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Body Fat Percentage, Basal Metabolic Rate, Adipose Tissue
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E. g. stop drinking at a predetermined time; ask a friend to let them know if the have had enough to drink. Injunctive what people think is ok. Anything related to attitudes is more motivation in the com-b model. Cut down amount you usually eat by half for a week stored energy and adiposity signals decrease stimulate anabolic processes increase food intake and limit energy expenditure, reduced metabolic rate. Most commercial diets have in common: eat food. 30% of americans get the recommended amount of fruits/veggies in their diet daily. Consequences/concerns restriction of freedom, possibly unfair. E. g. one proposed laws tax soda by grams of sugar but diet sodas don"t have sugar and why don"t we tax actual sugar. Have two people at the same weight, one had to lose weight by eating less or , one had that weight for their entire adult life. When start to eat less body"s metabolic rate changes (slows)
