2. What You Will Do
Identify health risks related to overweight and underweight.
Identify impaired glucose tolerance and its role in diabetes.
Evaluate the effect of overweight on physical activity.

3. Terms to Know excessive weight disabilities sleep apnea
impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)
insulin
underweight

4. Overweight and Youth
The number of teens in this country who are overweight has tripled. This is a cause of major concern among health professionals.
Developing a healthy eating plan as a teen will reduce your risk of becoming overweight as you age.

5. The Effect of Overweight on Health
Being overweight can affect a person’s self-esteem and quality of life.
Being excessively overweight is linked with a number of chronic physical diseases and conditions.

6. The Effect of Overweight on Health
Excessive weight disabilities
Health problems and diseases linked to or resulting directly from long-term overweight or obesity.
Term to Know
Conditions such as breathing difficulties and bone and joint problems are grouped together under the heading excessive weight disabilities.

7. The Effect of Overweight on Health
Sleep apnea
A condition in which a person stops breathing during sleep, due to obstructed or reduced air passages.
Term to Know
Overweight people are at a higher risk for sleep apnea.
Untreated sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases, memory problems, weight gain, and headaches.

8. The Effect of Overweight on Health
Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)
A disorder in which blood glucose levels become elevated.
Term to Know
Another serious condition related to overweight is impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

9. The Effect of Overweight on Health
Insulin
A hormone produced by the pancreas.
Term to Know
Often in those with IGT, the pancreas produces too little insulin to convert food into glucose, which is then stored in the blood.

10. Underweight
Underweight
Having a Body Mass Index (BMI) that is below the 5th percentile for one’s age.
Term to Know
In the face of the overweight epidemic, it is easy to lose sight of the reverse problem—being excessively lean, or underweight.

11. Recall List and describe two health problems related to overweight.
Lesson 1 Review
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
3. Recall
Underweight is having a BMI less than the 5th percentile for your age and gender.
2. Vocabulary
A condition in which a person stops breathing during sleep, due to obstructed or reduced air passages.
1. Recall
High blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and certain cancers.
Recall List and describe two health problems related to overweight.
Vocabulary What is sleep apnea?
Vocabulary Define underweight.

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