PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.5: Oral Rehydration Therapy, Small For Gestational Age, Malnutrition

• School: UCLA
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 130
• Professor: elizabethdarvick

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Heredity accounts for a tendency to gain weight. Environment also contributes; low education and income linked to overweightness. Tendency to buy low cost high fat foods. Neighborhoods that lack access to affordable healthy foods. Children undernourished in early years are at risk for later excessive weight gain. E. g. mothers who smoke during pregnancy underweight babies. Some parents anxiously overfeed or pressure their children to eat. Others are highly restrictive and controlling of eating habits or use sugary foods to reinforce other behaviors. Parents fail to help children learn to regulate their own food intake maladaptive eating habits. Insufficient sleep increase time available for eating too fatigued for physical activity. Or disrupt regulation of hunger and metabolism. More hours on electronics less physically active. Tv ads also encourage consumption of unhealthy foods. Physical attractiveness is a predictor for social acceptance. Obese children are often socially isolated more emotional and social difficulties. Lower self esteem, depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts.