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Weight Loss Surgery (Part 2)
23/03/09
Weight Loss Surgery (Part 2)
If you are very overweight, gastric bypass surgery could save your life, according to recent studies. In this interview, you will find out who can benefit from the surgery and what types of lifestyle changes are necessary to make this surgery a long-term success. — Causes of obesity — Obesity health risks — How gastric bypass works — Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass — Pre-operative testing and screening — Post-surgery diet.
Weight Loss Surgery (Part 1)
20/03/09
Weight Loss Surgery (Part 1)
If you are very overweight, gastric bypass surgery could save your life, according to recent studies. In this interview, you will find out who can benefit from the surgery and what types of lifestyle changes are necessary to make this surgery a long-term success. — Causes of obesity — Obesity health risks — How gastric bypass works — Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass — Pre-operative testing and screening — Post-surgery diet.
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What is the Caloric Balance Equation?
When it comes to maintaining a healthy weight for a lifetime, the bottom line is — calories count! Weight management is all about balance—balancing the number of calories you consume with the number of calories your body uses or “burns off.”
A calorie is defined as a unit of energy supplied by food. A calorie is a calorie regardless of its source. Whether you’re eating carbohydrates, fats, sugars, or proteins, all of them contain calories.
Caloric balance is like a scale. To remain in balance and maintain your body weight, the calories consumed (from foods) must be balanced by the calories used (in normal body functions, daily activities, and exercise).
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Can Your Environment Affect Obesity?
18/03/09
Can Your Environment Affect Obesity?
People may make decisions based on their environment or community. For example, a person may choose not to walk to the store or to work because of a lack of sidewalks. Communities, homes, and workplaces can all influence people’s health decisions. Because of this influence, it is important to create environments in these locations that make it easier to engage in physical activity and to eat a healthy diet. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity 2001 identified action steps for several locations that may help prevent and decrease obesity and overweight.
The following table provides some examples of these steps.
Home:
* Reduce time spent watching television and in other sedentary behaviors.
*Build physical activity into regular routines.
Schools:
*Ensure that the school breakfast and lunch programs meet nutrition standards.
*Provide food options that are low in fat, calories, and added sugars.
*Provide all children, from prekindergarten through grade 12, with quality daily physical education.
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Work:
*Create more opportunities for physical activity at work sites.
Community:
*Promote healthier choices including at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and reasonable portion sizes.
*Encourage the food industry to provide reasonable food and beverage portion sizes.
*Encourage food outlets to increase the availability of low-calorie, nutritious food items.
*Create opportunities for physical activity in communities.
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Obesity Rate in Children
15/03/09
Obesity Rate in Children
Nearly 10 million children in the United States are considered obese. Dr. Kerri Boutelle from the UCSD Department of Psychiatry believes the solution lies within their parents. By teaching parents to teach their children how to make the right choices, they can lead healthier lives. In this story, you’ll meet Dr. Boutelle and 2 families.
Water Exercise For Kids
14/03/09
Water Exercise For Kids
The Water Exercise For Kids Video below discusses childhood obesity as it relates to the need for more physical activity year round.
Using Body Mass Index with Children and Teens?
Body Mass Index is a screening tool that is used to identify children with possible weight problems. CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend the use of BMI to screen for overweight and obesity in children beginning at 2 years old.
BMI is not a diagnostic tool but is used to screen children for obesity, overweight, healthy weight, or underweight. For example, a child may have a high BMI for age and sex, but in order to determine if excess fat is a problem, a health care professional would need to perform further assessments. These assessments might include skinfold thickness measurements, evaluations of diet, physical activity, family history, and other appropriate health screenings.
How is BMI calculated and interpreted for children and teens?
Calculating and interpreting Body Mass Index using the BMI Percentile Calculator involves the following steps:
1. Before calculating BMI, obtain accurate height and weight measurements.
2. Calculate the BMI and percentile using the Child and Teen BMI Calculator. The Body Mass Index number is calculated using standard formulas.
3. Review the calculated BMI-for-age percentile and results. The BMI-for-age percentile is used to interpret the BMI number because BMI is both age-and sex-specific for children and teens. These criteria are different from those used to interpret BMI for adults — which do not take into account age or sex. Age and sex are considered for children and teens for two reasons:
The amount of body fat changes with age so the Body Mass Index for children and teens is often referred to as BMI-for-age.
The amount of body fat differs between girls and boys.
The CDC BMI-for-age growth charts for girls and boys take into account these differences and allow translation of a Body Mass Index number into a percentile for a child’s or teen’s sex and age.
4. Find the weight status category for the calculated BMI-for-age percentile as shown in the following table.
Underweight - Less than the 5th percentile.
Healthy weight - 5th percentile to less than the 85th percentile.
Overweight - 85th to less than the 95th percentile.
Obese - Equal to or greater than the 95th percentile.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Preventing Obesity with Good Nutrition and Physical Activity
Unhealthy diet and the lack of physical activity can contribute to or aggravate many chronic diseases and conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and even some cancers.
During the past 20 years or so, obesity rates among adults have risen substantially in the United States. The 2005–2006, data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows us that 34% of over 72 million U.S. adults 20 years of age and older suffer from obesity.
In 2005, few adults met the Healthy People 2010 objectives for fruit and vegetable consumption with only 33% eating fruit two or more times each day and even fewer (27%) eating vegetables three or more times each day.
Despite the proven benefits that physical activity offers, less than half of American adults in 2007 engaged in enough physical activity to provide the needed health benefits.
More than a quarter of children born in 2004 were never breastfed.
The percentage of young people who suffer from obesity has almost tripled since 1980. During the 2003–2006 time frame, 16.3% of children and adolescents between the ages of 2–19 had a body mass index greater than or equal to the 95th percentile for age and sex on the CDC growth charts.
Over one third (34%) of adolescents in grades 9–12 had a non diet soft drink at least one time per day during the previous 7 day period.
A full 65% of young people in grades 9–12 did not get the recommended amount of physical activity in 2007 with 35% of them watching 3 or more hours of television on the average school day.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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