...Body Fat and Eating Disorders April D Cook SCI 241 8/3/13 Sandi House Define body composition and the risks associated with excess body fat? “Body composition is the body’s relative amount of fat to fat free mass (Scott, 2008).” The less body fat you have the better you feel and the better your body moves. Having too much body fat can cause health risks such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. If you have too much fat around your organs you could damage your liver. What are some factors that influence the obesity epidemic? After reading the research from the US National Library of Medicine, obesity is being affected by high fat foods, fast food intake, and too much television watching for long periods of time and not enough physical activity, and the portion size of foods being bought (Brantley 2005). What are some health problems associated with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder? Anorexia nervosa can cause osteoporosis, brittle nails and hair, yellow and dry skin, muscle weakness, constipation, low blood pressure, brain damage, and organ failure and body weakness. People who become anorexic believe that they are over-weight ("What Are Eating Disorders?", 2011). Bulimia nervosa can cause sore throat, swollen glands, tooth decay and acid reflux, intestinal issues from laxative abuse, dehydration and heart attack. People who become bulimic fear becoming over-weight ("What Are Eating Disorders?", 2011). Binge-eating disorder can cause cardiovascular...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders SCT/241 - Nutrition Body Fat and Eating Disorders There is a serious issue that is happening in the world today and its right in front of us, an obesity epidemic and eating disorder. How are we in an epidemic? Well back in 1960, 13.4% of adults were obese; in 1991, 23% were obese and nor more than a decade later 31% are obese and the numbers keep rising (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). Due to this the medical and public health officials have called this situation an epidemic. This epidemic doesn’t affect a specific culture or nation but affects us all and definitely includes children as well. Children and teens, from ages 6 to 19 years of age are overweight. The problem with this epidemic is that with excess body fat increases many health related issues like: high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, gallbladder disease, arthritis, sleep disorders, respiratory problems, and cancers of the breast, uterus, prostate, and colon (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). We ask, “What can we do to avoid or beat this epidemic since we don’t even know what our body composition is or why it is?” Well our body composition, we can thank our parents since our body size and shape are contained in our genes that were inherited by our parents. Whether you are short and stocky or tall and thin, these traits are handed down. Even our genes get involved in regulating body fatness, these genes are called obesity genes...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Joseph McLain SCI/241 September 22, 2013 Dr. Doug Beaudette Body Fat and Eating Disorders The body’s relative amount of fat to fat-free mass is what body composition is. People, who are healthier, move more easily and efficiently, have optimal body composition. Your overall wellness and improving your quality of life is from achieving a more optimal body composition. Body fat and fat-free mass, which is what all the body’s non-fat tissues are made of, are the two types of body composition. Things like bone, water, muscle, and tissues are what is included with fat-free mass. Body fat is literally fat located within the body. Fat also provides energy and helps protect internal organs, and regulates hormones that perform various functions in body regulation, making fat necessary for overall health. Having an excessive accumulation of body fat is how someone gets overweight or obese. According to “Point Medical Services”(2011) “ Body fat includes essential fats, such as lipids, and nonessential body fats; these fats make up around five percent of total body weight for men, and up to 12 percent for women. Nonessential fat is found mainly within fat cells and adipose tissue, below the skin and surrounding major organs. The amount of nonessential fat stored in the body is variable among individuals on factors such as age, gender, and diet. Excess nonessential fat can normally be attributed to consuming more food energy than what is burned...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Kathleen Hastings SCI/241 Nutrition March 26, 2013 Body Fat and Eating Disorders Body composition is the proportion of your body when it comes to fat and fat-free mass (Jennifer Scott, 2008). If you have a higher proportion of fat-free mass compared to a lower portion of body fat, then you have a healthy body composition. However, someone that has an excessive amount of body fat is not as healthy and actually has a better chance of suffering from high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, and cancer (Jennifer Scott, 2008). Today’s society is actually going through an obesity epidemic. Instead of being outside all of the time and working or playing, the younger generation stays inside and plays video games. Another thing is that we are a generation of moving fast and being on the run 24/7. This leads people to make bad food decisions and eat a lot of fast food instead of cooking healthy food for their selves. Being constantly busy and on the go also means less time for exercise. These are all factors that go towards causing this obesity epidemic. As bad of a problem as America has with obesity, we also have a rather large problem with people being obsessed with how they look and getting eating disorders which also causes health problems. One eating disorder is anorexia nervosa; it is a disorder that is complex and has three main features. Those features are that you refuse to maintain a healthy body weight, the fear...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders University of Phoenix Body Fat and Eating Disorders Having a healthy body composition is important because it allows a person to weigh less and look thinner and you are retaining less fat on the body and have more lean muscle. Body composition which refers to the relative proportions of fat and lean tissue that make up the body, affects the risks associated with excess body weight. Having more than the recommended percentage of body fat increases health risks, whereas having more lean body mass does not. (Wiley, 2015) A healthy body composition produces significantly better overall health. Maintaining a healthy body composition can reduce the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, insulin insensitivity, type two diabetes, hormone imbalance and more. On the flip side of a healthy body composition is an unhealthy body composition. Unhealthy body composition and having excess body fat can lead to obesity which can be linked to health complications. Heart disease, stroke, back pain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, respiratory problems and many more all can be linked with having too much fat on the body. Body weight by itself (what a scale says) is not the only definitive assessment of body composition. In order to see how unhealthy or healthy your body is you can use very non-invasive measurements to help you determine where you stand with body composition. Skin calipers, bioelectrical impedance, hydrostatic...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders xxxxxxx SCI/241 November xx 2013 xxxxxxxx Body Fat and Eating Disorders At birth, each person is given their body to take care of. Everyone needs help for the first decade or two in taking care of it. As people age, they become more in control of their body and what goes into it. People need to be concerned with what they are eating, and how they are taking care of their body to ensure they have the proper body composition, are not obese, or do not gain any eating disorders. The first two can be easy enough, however eating disorders are so much more because they can happen in many different ways, and psychological factors affect them so easily. Body composition is what the body is composed of. This includes water, fat, muscle, etc. The body needs to have acceptable ranges for each of these. One of the most important things to measure is body fat as it is linked to so many things in the body. Shape Up discusses how too much body fat can be linked to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and certain cancers. If the body has have too little fat, Shape up goes on to discuss how it can lead to reproduction problems in women and can affect normal, health functioning in both men and women (Shape Up America, 2013). There are a few ways to check body fat, but the two easiest ways are using Body Mass Index or BMI and by percentage. The good news is that both of these are easy to use so it can be done in the...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorder Paper Evelyn Sherrill Sci/241 April 20, 2014 Carl Dean Body Fat and Eating Disorder Paper Body composition is referred to as the body’s relative amount of fat to fat-free mass. There are two separate groups of body composition they are mass and fat free mass which in return is comprised of non-fat tissues and body fat. Fat free mass includes bone, water, muscles and tissues. Body fat is the fat that is located within the body. Some of the risks associated with excess body fat would be the health problems that increase the risk of certain disease such a cancer, diabetes and heart disease. If the body fat surrounds any of the internal organs it can cause even more serious medical conditions such as liver disease Scott, J.R. (2014). What is Body Composition? Retrieved from http://weightloss.about.com/od/backtobasics/body.comp.htm. Factors that influence the obesity epidemic are certain food marketing practices and the reduction of physical activities. The popularity and affordability of fast food contribute to the obesity epidemic. There is an increased availability of vending machine that contains energy-dense items, which can cause overweight in children as well as adults. Since the early childhood stages, children have consumed foods that are unhealthy, but taste good to them and this will add fat to their bodies. Plus the level of physical activities has decreased since we were growing up where all we wanted to do was play outside, for...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Science of Nutrition: Debi Lemke Sarah Morse November 11, 2012 Body Fat and Eating Disorders It is so important to make sure that your body stays lean and fit. Being lean helps reduce the risk of many illnesses that are avoidable. Throughout this week we have discussed the dangerous obesity epidemic plaguing our country. There are many factors involved and knowing what those factors are can help in the fight against it. On the other side of obesity are eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. While we are taught that being lean and fit is best some may take it to another level that is unhealthy. Body composition is the portion of body weight that is fat compared to lean. There are many different ways to calculate and find out what that is. Some like skin fold thickness and biometric impedance are proven to be inaccurate in some circumstances and therefore may not be the best method even though they may be the easiest to acquire. Methods like underwater weighing and air displacement can be very accurate how there are stipulations to them and they may not be readily available and also expensive. There are many risks associated with being overweight, an easy way to get a gauge on how you fare is using BMI (body mass index). BMI can be calculated by taking weight2 × height = bmi kg/m2. A healthy BMI is anywhere from 18-25 anything over 25 is considered overweight over 40 is morbidly obese. The risks...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Kelly Jones SCI/241 2/24/2013 Claudia Voges According to "Obesity & Genetics" (2010), “Obesity is a major health hazard worldwide and is associated with several relatively common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and some cancers.” Obesity and being overweight can result from an energy imbalance. Obesity and being overweight happen when you eat too many calories and are not getting enough exercise. A person’s body weight is the result of genes, metabolism, behavior, environment, culture, and socioeconomic status. A person’s environment and behavior can play a large role causing overweight and obesity. Eating disorders can happen to male and females. Some issues that are associated with eating disorders are thinning hair, brittle nails, dry and or yellowish skin, anemia along with muscle wasting and weakness, constipation, brain damage, their body temperature drops internally causing the person to be cold all the time. Eating disorders can also cause infertility, along with lethargy and sluggishness or feeling tired all the time. The way people eat has a direct effect on the endocrine system, the system that governs the body. For those with eating disorders where the natural functions of the endocrine system is impeded or degraded, this can have serious consequences on long-term health, especially for adolescents still in their formative years who after...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders SCI/241 February 23, 2014 Body Fat and Eating Disorders Body composition is the term used to describe the way a body is made from portions of fat and lean tissues. It is another way of determining if a person has excess body fat. Too much body fat can increase heart rate, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and put undue stress on many of the body’s organs. Excess body fat can lead to several chronic diseases such as diabetes, liver, heart, and some cancer diseases. Any of these diseases can lead to mortality. There are numerous factors that influence the obesity epidemic. Finances, physical activity, bad choice of foods, emotions, stress, portions, and time management are a few of those factors. It is cheaper to buy and eat processed foods than the healthier versions, because of money and time. People’s lives today are on a hectic, and have less money to spend on their food budget. Food portions have increased at many of the fast food places. These factors help lead to the obesity epidemic. So many of us have also become sedimentary. We come home from a long day at work and choose to sit in our easy chairs either watching TV, or playing on the computer. Our children are following in the same direction. Many of today’s children do not go outside to play, shoot hoops, or ride bicycles. Another factor is stress. Many people will eat when they are depressed, or stressed. They find comfort in eating, and then later they will...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper 1 Week 8 Assignment: Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Savanna Engstrom SCI/241 August 26, 2012 Dr. Mike Collins Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper 2 Body composition is the comparison between muscle and fat in a person’s body. A person’s weight could be high because of either large muscles or having too much extra fat. When a person is overweight because of excess fat, they are at risk of coming down with a variety of very dangerous and life threatening diseases. Excess fat can also cause a person to have a weaker immune system which leads to infections, slower wound healing, and complications during surgery. Extra fat poses a danger to women especially while they are pregnant, and their baby could be threatened as well. There are also psychological aspects of being overweight which can harm a person over time such as becoming depressed, dependent on others, unable to take care of themselves, and possibly developing eating disorders. There are so many factors these days that contribute to the world’s obesity epidemic. The two leading factors, in my opinion, are not eating healthy and not getting the appropriate amount of physical activity. These two factors work together because they go hand in hand: unhealthy food causes people to feel lazy and lack energy, so they sit around and play video games and watch TV rather than go out to play. There is also the fact that many people were never taught how to shop for...
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...Finance and Business Transcript Speakers: Narrator, Host, Paul C. Clendening NARRATOR: On the subject of banking and finance, we hear Paul C. Clendening, a banker from Kansas City, who is active locally and nationally with Robert Morris Associates, National Association of Bank Loan and Credit Officers. HOST: What does the term finance mean in reference to a small business person? PAUL C. CLENDENING: The term finance refers to the dynamic measurement of a company’s health and progress. Business owners are given accounting information that historically report what a company’s sales have been, how its assets and its liabilities are structured, etc. But the dynamic interaction of those assets, liabilities, and income figures really relate to the health of the company itself. The primary way to utilize financial information is to look at a trend analysis and a ratio analysis. HOST: What about liquidity. What does that mean? PAUL C. CLENDENING: Liquidity is a very important day-to-day measurement for a business owner and really a key tool to use in the management of that business. As an example, one of the most common ratios of liquidity is the current ratio. The current ratio is defined as the total current assets of the company less the current liabilities. Now what that should show is a margin of short-term assets in excess of the short-term liabilities. The benefit of that to the small business owner of manager is that it provides a working capital cushion that...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Body composition is the measurement used to describe the percentages of fat, muscle, and bone in the human body. These measurements can determine who is at risk of being overweight or obese, and there are many serious risks in being overweight. Those that are overweight are at and increased risk of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. Also being overweight can lead to diabetes, bone and joint problems, not to mention the many psychological disorders that can arise with the stigmatization of being overweight. There have been many ideas on what has been the cause of the obese epidemic, and the one that I think has the most clout is the increased television ads. Many of the ads that are shown on the internet and commercials are food advertisements, and these ads are made to trigger our taste buds and go out and buy these products. For many people these ads work extremely well, and are a large factor in why so many people are obese. When there is constant bombardment of “Eat this” ads, it can become hard to stay on any diet when up against this type of persuasiveness. On the opposite side of obesity we have people who feel the extreme pressure from those advertisements and they are so overwhelmed that they chose not to eat or not to retain their meals. Those people suffer from anorexia, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders. These disorders can cause all of these issues and many more. When you do not consume...
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...understand obesity we must first look at body composition. Body weight is the sum of the weight of the fat and the weight of the lean body mass. Lean body mass is comprised of all the nonfat body components including muscle, bone, and internal organs. Body composition then is the proportion of body weight that is fat compared to lean. Having a high body weight can be attributed to large muscles or excess fat. A high body weight due to excess fat increases the risk of chronic health problems which can include high blood pressure and cholesterol, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, respiratory problems, arthritis, sleep disorders, and gallbladder disease. Obesity can also increase the risk of breast and uterus cancers in women and prostate and colon cancers in men (Grosvenor,M. & Smolin, L., 2006). There are several factors that weigh into the obesity epidemic. The genes that you inherit from your parents determine your body shape and composition. Obesity genes get their name because an abnormality in one or more of them can result in obesity. There are also different hormones in the body that signal the body to eat or not to eat and have a hand in how much we eat at each sitting. For example the hormone ghrelin is released by the stomach and is believed to motivate you to eat at regular meal times during the day. Insulin is another hormone that helps the body monitor how much fat is present and sends appetite suppressing signals to the brain when fat levels are high. In addition to the...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorder Paper Jolie Handel SCI/241 September 9, 2012 Kelsey Jakubauskas Body composition is the proportion of fat and fat-free mass in the body. Those that have a higher proportion of fat-free mass to a lower proportion of body fat have a healthy body composition. Someone with a body composition that includes excessive body fat is more likely to suffer from weight-related health problem including things like; high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, gallbladder disease, arthritis, sleep disorders, respiratory problems, menstrual irregularities, and cancers of the breasts, uterus, prostate and colon. Obese puts a person at a higher risk for surgical complications and has also been found that their wounds take longer to heal as well. Many factors influence the obesity epidemic of today’s society. We live in a culture where everything is very fast paced and instant gratification is expected. Stress plays a large role in our every day lives. People are working one if not two jobs while trying to raise a family. While these jobs may require less physical labor, they may require more mental labor than jobs in the past. As a result of working long hours, possible commute, and hectic schedules, people have little or no time for active recreation time. People find themselves spending more time watching television...
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