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Overweight and Obesity for Teens and Adults

Overweight and Obesity for Teens and Adults. Definitions for Teens and Adults. Overweight: An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 Obese: An adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher Adult BMI Calculator Child and Teen BMI Calculator. Maintaining a healthy weight for life!.

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Overweight and Obesity for Teens and Adults

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  1. Overweight and Obesity for Teens and Adults

  2. Definitions for Teens and Adults • Overweight: An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 • Obese: An adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher • Adult BMI Calculator • Child and Teen BMI Calculator

  3. Maintaining a healthy weight for life! • Weight management is all about balance: balancing the number of calories you consume with the number of calories your body uses or burns off. • Calorie: unit of energy supplied by food. All foods have calories, some good some bad. • Caloric balance is like a scale: to remain in balance and maintain your body weight, the calories consumed must be balanced by the calories used.

  4. Balance

  5. Health Consequences • Coronary heart disease • Type 2 diabetes • Cancers (endometrial, breast, and colon) • Hypertension (high blood pressure) • Dyslipidemia (for example, high total cholesterol or high levels of triglycerides) • Stroke • Liver and Gallbladder disease • Sleep apnea and respiratory problems • Osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and its underlying bone within a joint) • Gynecological problems (abnormal menses, infertility)

  6. Economic Consequences • Overweight and obesity and their associated health problems have a significant economic impact on the U.S. health care system. • Direct medical costs may include preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services related to obesity. Indirect costs relate to morbidity and mortality costs. • Morbidity costs are defined as the value of income lost from decreased productivity, restricted activity, absenteeism, and bed days. Mortality costs are the value of future income lost by premature death. • The medical care costs of obesity in the United States are staggering. In 2008 dollars, these costs totaled about $147 billion

  7. Prevalence of obesity among adults-2009

  8. What can you do as an individual? • Eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer foods high in fat and sugar. • Drink more water instead of sugary drinks. • Limit TV watching to less than 2 hours a day and don’t put one in your room. • Try going for a 10-minute brisk walk, 3 times a day, 5 days a week. • Discuss as a group different ways to incoprorate physical activity into each and everyday. • Discuss the log assignment progress

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