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Chapter 8

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 8: Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
  2. Objectives
  3. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1990, 2000, 2010
  4. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1985
  5. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1986
  6. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1987
  7. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1988
  8. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1989
  9. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1990
  10. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1991
  11. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1992
  12. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1993
  13. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1994
  14. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1995
  15. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1996
  16. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1997
  17. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1998
  18. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1999
  19. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2000
  20. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2001
  21. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2001
  22. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2003
  23. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2004
  24. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2005
  25. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2006
  26. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2007
  27. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2008
  28. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2009
  29. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2010
  30. Obesity trends slides
  31. Health Risks for Overweight People
  32. Overweight and Obesity
  33. Body Mass Index
  34. Body Mass Index Classifications
  35. BMI and Mortality
  36. Body Fat Distribution
  37. Visceral Fat
  38. Waist Circumference Measure
  39. Body Composition
  40. Body Fatness of a Typical Man and Woman
  41. Measuring Body Composition (1 of 2)
  42. Measuring Body Composition (2 of 2)
  43. Maintaining a Healthy Weight
  44. Energy Expenditure: How We Use Calories
  45. Factors associated with Overweight and Obesity
  46. A Lifestyle Approach to Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
  47. Physical Activity and Fat Loss
  48. Healthy Eating for Fat Loss
  49. Body Image and Weight
  50. Eating Disorders
  51. Take-home points
  52. Sources

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Eating Disorders

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Lecture Notes

Oftentimes a distorted body image can lead to unhealthy practices and, potentially, eating disorders. And although these disorders affect fewer people when compared to our problems with overweight and obesity, they're still important to understand. And so there are two that are listed here. There are certainly a whole host more, but we'll talk about two here.

The first is anorexia nervosa, and this is characterized by a distorted body image, self-starvation, and extreme weight loss. These people have an extreme fear of becoming fat, and actually think that they are fat even though oftentimes they are simply wasting away. And if left untreated it can not only result in weight loss but also in amenorrhea (or loss of a menstrual cycle for a woman), osteoporosis, muscle loss, and even potentially death if it's left untreated.

The second eating disorder here is bulimia nervosa, and this is controlled-characterized by uncontrollable cycles of binging-binge eating (or eating lots and lots of calories) followed by purging through either forced vomiting or the abuse of laxatives or diuretics. And so usually people with bulimia are in a normal weight range, unlike those with anorexia, but their weight might fluctuate due to that binging and purging cycle. And we know that that cycle puts a lot of strain on the body and has negative consequences.