1. Weight Management & Body Image
© Lisa Michalek

2. Determining Healthy Weight Ranges

3. Obesity
A weight disorder caused by the accumulation of fat beyond what is considered normal for a person based on age, sex, and body type.

4. Body Mass Index (BMI)
A weight assessment based on the relationship of weight to height.

5. Obesity Risk Factors The Environment Heredity Thyroid Gland Problems
Eating Out, Bottle Feeding, Desk Jobs, the use of Automated Equipment, Computer, TV, and Video Games, Fear of being outside because of violence
Heredity
Body Type and Genes
Thyroid Gland Problems
This gland in the throat produces a hormone that regulates metabolism

6. Obesity Risk Factors Psychosocial Factors Metabolic Changes Lifestyle
Emotional insecurities, needs and wants
Food is used as a reward for good behavior
Metabolic Changes
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is influenced by age and diets
Lifestyle
Relationship between activity levels and calorie intake
Smoking increases the metabolic rate. After quitting they burn fewer calories.

7. Managing Your Weight Set Realistic Goals Watch calorie intake
Exercise regularly
Eat a nutritional Diet
Avoid “Miracle” Diets

8. Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa Bulimia Nervosa
Self-starvation motivated by an intense fear of gaining weight along with an extremely distorted body image
Bulimia Nervosa
Often binge and then take inappropriate measures, such as vomiting, to lose the calories they have just consumed
Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
Also binge, but do not try to lose the weight they gain
Often they are obese