...Bolding Syllabus 1 SCI/241 Version 6: 6.18.2012 – 8.19.2012 Course Design Guide College of Natural Sciences SCI/241 Version 6 The Science of Nutrition Copyright © 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the world of human nutrition. Students examine the components included in a healthy, balanced diet, and develop strategies to meet their changing nutritional needs throughout the various stages of life. Specific topics for the course include: the digestion process, functions and health benefits of specific nutrients, weight management and fitness, and the effects of nutritional deficiencies. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Grosvenor, M. B., & Smolin, L. A. (2006). Nutrition: Everyday choices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Please make...
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...------------------------------------------------- Mind and body Body Fat and Eating Disorders November 4, 2014 SCI/241 Lorraine Sutter November 4, 2014 SCI/241 Lorraine Sutter Samantha Porting Samantha Porting “Body composition 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. Having too much body fat increases a person's risk of developing a host of chronic health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, gallbladder disease, arthritis, sleep disorders, respiratory problems, menstrual irregularities, and cancers of the breast, uterus, prostate, and colon. Obesity also increases the incidence and severity of infectious disease and has been linked to poor wound healing and surgical complications. The more excess body fat you have, the greater your health risks. The longer you carry excess fat, the greater the risks; individuals who gain excess weight at a young age and remain overweight throughout life face the greatest health risks” (Wiley, 2014). “Assesses factors that influence the obesity epidemic are the result from an energy imbalance. This involves eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activity. Body weight is the result of genes, metabolism, behavior, environment...
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...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 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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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Johhnny DOe SCI /241 April 12, 2013 Angela Hattaway Body Fat and Eating Disorders Health problems associated with dietary medical conditions have become a serious problem in the United States today. These conditions include both eating disorders and the obesity epidemic. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the point that it may adversely affect a person’s health. Medically, obesity is defined as having a body weight exceeding 20% above their normal weight. Body composition is the percentage of fat, muscle, and bone that make up the human body. The excess of fat associated with obesity carries many health risks to the body. Obesity has been found to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and stroke, among many other dangerous medical conditions. As a result, obesity has been linked to a severe decrease in life expectancy (on average, six to seven years), and ranks as one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide. Obesity is caused by a person taking in more calories than they physically use throughout the day. Other factors can aid in this imbalance. As people get older, the body becomes less able to metabolize food efficiently. Women have a lower resting metabolic rate than men and are therefore more prone to being overweight. People also tend to be less active in today's lifestyle than in the past. Eating disorders also severely affect a person’s health. Anorexia nervosa...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Derrick Murphy SCI/241 Clayton Wilson 0ctober 25, 2012 Body Fat and Eating Disorders Describe body composition and the risks associated with excess body fat. Body composition is the body’s relative amount of fat to fat-free mass. People with optimal body composition are typically healthier, move more easily and efficiently, and in general, feel better than those with less-than-ideal body composition. Body composition is divided into two separate types of mass: fat-free mass which is comprised of all of the body’s non-fat tissues and body fat. Fat –free mass includes bone, water, muscle, and tissues. Body fat is literally fat located within the body. Some fat is necessary overall health: it helps protect internal organs, provides energy and regulates in body regulates hormones that perform various functions in body regulation. Excess fat has been linked to numerous health problems such as increased risk for diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Having excess fat, specifically surrounding the internal organs, can damage your health and contribute to serious medical conditions such as liver disease. Assess factors that influence the obesity epidemic? Body Fat and Eating Disorders A main influence in the obesity epidemic is the media. The media is constantly advertising restaurants and fast food. Numerous studies have proven that personal food choices, lack of exercise...
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...SCI/241 January 31, 2013 Eva Hall It is many of ways to measure the body composition. It should be done at the doctor or at the gym, and the current flow throughout the body called the bioelectric impedance analysis. When people have excessive “fat it can cause fat under the skin (subcutaneous fat) it carries less risk than fat is deposited around the organs in the abdomen. The visceral fat is associated with a higher rate of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, and breast cancer. The obesity epidemic with overweight in the world is people will not exercise. When people think they are hungry they are not. People want to overeat and this is putting more fat on top of the fat that the body has. People are not watching the high-sugar diets they are eating or the high fat foods. They have to stay away from Trans fat and saturated fat food because it is full of high fats, sugars, and carbohydrates. People have to eat the healthy fats to make sure they are not harming the heart or other harmful diseases. People consume a large amount of alcohol; either from a restaurant or having a gathering at home. Anorexia nervosa is when people have a fear of eating because they want to decrease their food intake. Anorexia nervosa is a mental or emotional disorder that has a behavioral component and physical and dietary consequences that can be severe. Anorexia nervosa is around people that have a fear of weight gain and they want to remain thin; they over exercise, so...
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...Eating Disorder Paper SCI/241 Nutrition Due: 06/07/2014 Food is a very vital part of all human lives. There are people who always want to try the newest diet trend. The people that are trying these new diet trends actually finds it normal. Sometimes these so called diet trends can be abused and lead to many other things. The abuse to these diet trends can lead to people having eating disorder. Some of the disorders are bulimia, binge-eating, and anorexia and many more. These eating disorders have very life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s physical and emotional health. Bulimia has repeating cycles of binge-and-purge cycles. These cycles can have a bad effect on the whole digestive system. These cycles can also lead to electrolyte as well as chemical imbalances in the body. People who suffer from the eating-disorder anorexia have cycles where they will starve there selves from the nutrients the body needs to function normally. This starvation can cause dehydration as well as kidney failure. Bing-eating can cause many problems health wise. Problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, as well as type II diabetes. Eating disorders can lead to many health issues mainly from the lack of nutrients which, from a physiological standpoint, can cause organ damage. Sometimes the factor that leads people to do these types of disorders are body issues that some have and their minds think they are fat or over weight. Everybody have different body composition...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders SCI/241 Alvin Fuentes 9/29/2013 Our bodies are made up of water, carbohydrates, protein, fat, and various vitamins. Having too much fat can lead to health risks such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. This can be especially true is a lot of the fat is located at your waist. Obesity has become an epidemic in our country, costing around 10% of our national medical budget. One in three adults and one in six children are considered obese. Obesity occurs when people consume more calories than they burn, but the problem can go deeper than that. Fast food is one reason why so many people are overweight. Foods are now higher in sugar and calories, and are often more processed than what we used to eat. There is also less chances for activity adults and children. Walking or biking to schools has become less practical, and many chances for children to get out and play have become scarce. It has become easier to stay in or drive where we need to go over getting out and exercising. Physical education in schools has also declined in the last few years. Low-income communities may also lack a quality grocery store and as a result have to result to eating less healthy foods. These factors all add together to create the obesity epidemic in our country. The three types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. These disorders put you at a higher risk of having many different health problems. Anorexia...
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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 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 Disorders Paper John SCI 241 Nutrition Aug 4, 2013 Body composition is divided into two separate types of mass. These types of masses are called fat-free mass and body fat. Fat-free mass is made up of the body’s non-fat tissue. Fat-free mass is the type that is bone, water muscle, and tissue. Body fat the other type of mass is fat that is located within our body. Body fat is needed because it helps protects our internal organs. It also provides energy, and helps our hormones perform several different functions like the regulation of the body. A person that has good body composition is usually healthier than those with a not so good body composition. Having a more optimal body composition helps improve a person overall wellbeing. The risks associated with excess body fat are type 2 diabetes , heart disease and high blood pressure just to name a few. Excess body fat or obesity has always been linked as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. This is because the extra weight causes the body to have problems controlling blood sugar using insulin. Heart failure occurs due to hypertension which is common in individuals that have excess body fat than that of individuals that do not. High blood pressure is another risk that is associated with having excess body fat. Individuals with high amounts of excess body fat show a increase of blood by volume and significant arterial resistance. Not being able to afford healthy foods is a factor that influences obesity...
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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 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 Paper Andrea Muller SCI/241 September 12, 2014 Cindy Davis Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper When a person carries too much or excess body in comparison to the lean muscle mass, it calls for an unhealthy body. As the body fat-to-lean ratio increases, so does your health risks. In fact, more often than not an unhealthy body composition can lead to obesity and lead to more critical health conditions such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and even cancer. What causes these factors of obesity? Consuming a high in fat, high in sugar, lack of exercise, overeating, and excess alcohol intake are all factors of obesity. On the other hand, eating disorders are serious illnesses that affect someone’s everyday diet by either eating extremely small amounts of food or severely overeating. Such eating disorders include: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating. Whether you are a man or woman, these disorders are very real and can be treatable. Usually, these eating disorders are associated with other mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse. Each eating disorder has specific characteristics to them as well as treatments. However, these eating disorders also take a toll of a person’s health therefore many health risks are of a concern. People with anorexia nervosa analyze eating, food and their weight constantly. This obsession makes them believe that they...
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