CLP 4314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Binge Eating, Eating Disorder

• School: FIU
• Department: Clinical Psychology
• Course: CLP 4314
• Professor: Leslie Frazier

Document Summary

Many health-compromising behavior are habitual & several are addictive. With proper interventions, even the most intractable health habit can be modified. Many health-compromising behaviors share several additional important characteristics. There is a window of vulnerability in adolescence. Many are tied to the peer culture: many of these behaviors are pleasurable. Try to combine long walk hours with school. Obesity: an excessive accumulation of body fat. Has replaced malnutrition as the prevalent dietary contributor to poor health world-wide. Contributes to death rates for all cancers. Is tied to atherosclerosis, hypertension, type ii diabetes, & heart failure. Increase risk in surgery, anesthesia administration, & childbearing. Reduces the likelihood that a person will exercise. More likely to have health care expenses & to need nursing home care in older age, it they live that long. People with excessive abdominal weight are more psychologically & physiologically reactive to stress. Fat tissue produces proinflammatory cytokines: may exacerbate disease related to inflammatory processes.