...Fats are essential for our body as human beings because it gives us energy. Everyone should know that out body needs fats in order to be healthy but some people mistake bad fats for good fats so it is important that you understand the difference. Bad fats would be fats such as Trans fats and saturated fats. Trans fats and saturated fats are bad fats because they raise you blood cholesterol concentrations, contributing to clogged arteries that block in flow of oxygen-rich blood to your heart and brain. (http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/good-facts-bad-facts) Saturated fats are fats that are solid and can be found in meats, cheese and milk. Saturated facts are found majority in things like snacks, cakes and all other sweets. Saturated fats are really something that you should limit your intake on because if you eat too much you will raise your cholesterol. Tran’s fatty acids clog arteries, increase the risk for heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Tran’s fats (Tran’s fatty acids) can be found in things that are crispy like cookies and pie crust and in foods that have partially hydrogenated oils and shortening. All fiber comes from plant origin foods such as fruits and vegetables. If you were to eat an apple you would want to eat it with the skin because that is where most of the fiber is found. Fiber cannot be digested when you eat due to the lack of specific enzymes in the body to digest them. They are found to facilitate the process of digestion and they help...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Joseph McLain SCI/241 September 22, 2013 Dr. Doug Beaudette Body Fat and Eating Disorders The body’s relative amount of fat to fat-free mass is what body composition is. People, who are healthier, move more easily and efficiently, have optimal body composition. Your overall wellness and improving your quality of life is from achieving a more optimal body composition. Body fat and fat-free mass, which is what all the body’s non-fat tissues are made of, are the two types of body composition. Things like bone, water, muscle, and tissues are what is included with fat-free mass. Body fat is literally fat located within the body. Fat also provides energy and helps protect internal organs, and regulates hormones that perform various functions in body regulation, making fat necessary for overall health. Having an excessive accumulation of body fat is how someone gets overweight or obese. According to “Point Medical Services”(2011) “ Body fat includes essential fats, such as lipids, and nonessential body fats; these fats make up around five percent of total body weight for men, and up to 12 percent for women. Nonessential fat is found mainly within fat cells and adipose tissue, below the skin and surrounding major organs. The amount of nonessential fat stored in the body is variable among individuals on factors such as age, gender, and diet. Excess nonessential fat can normally be attributed to consuming more food energy than what is burned...
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...How Does the Supplementation of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) affect Human Fat Mass? Abstract Research Question: How does the supplementation of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) affect human body composition? Literature Review: Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to a family of geometrical and positional isomers of linoleic acid. The predominant sources of CLA are from ruminant animal fats (cow, dairy, sheep, goat, and deer). Over the past 20 years, CLA supplementation has produced positive effects in animal studies, such as significant body fat reduction, anticarcinogenisis, antiatherogenesis, immune modulation and improved bone health. Conversely, human studies have not produced all of the aforementioned results. Nonetheless, there have been many human studies supporting a minimal but significant body fat reduction. These results have been mainly attained with a 50:50 mixture of cis-9, trans-11 and trans-10, cis-12 of purified CLA isomers at various doses. There is evidence indicating that a dose of 3.0g CLA/day may lead to fat loss, whereas the average Canadian consumes between 0.1-1.5 g CLA/day. Therefore, a supplement may be warranted in the future, once further research has been completed on the efficacy and safety of CLA supplementation. Implications to dietetic practice: Clinical dietitians involved in research should experiment with various doses and isomers, but they should particularly investigate the long-term implications...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Science of Nutrition: Debi Lemke Sarah Morse November 11, 2012 Body Fat and Eating Disorders It is so important to make sure that your body stays lean and fit. Being lean helps reduce the risk of many illnesses that are avoidable. Throughout this week we have discussed the dangerous obesity epidemic plaguing our country. There are many factors involved and knowing what those factors are can help in the fight against it. On the other side of obesity are eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. While we are taught that being lean and fit is best some may take it to another level that is unhealthy. Body composition is the portion of body weight that is fat compared to lean. There are many different ways to calculate and find out what that is. Some like skin fold thickness and biometric impedance are proven to be inaccurate in some circumstances and therefore may not be the best method even though they may be the easiest to acquire. Methods like underwater weighing and air displacement can be very accurate how there are stipulations to them and they may not be readily available and also expensive. There are many risks associated with being overweight, an easy way to get a gauge on how you fare is using BMI (body mass index). BMI can be calculated by taking weight2 × height = bmi kg/m2. A healthy BMI is anywhere from 18-25 anything over 25 is considered overweight over 40 is morbidly obese. The risks...
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...There are four different dietary fats as defined by the American Heart Association website. They are as follows polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated fats, transfats, and saturated fats each with physical and chemical structures that differ from each other. Pretty big words, and for most of us words that have little or meaning unless we take the time to research what they mean and how they affect our health and wellness. First the healthy fats and what mean to our diet. Polyunsaturated fats, and monounsaturated fats tend to be in the form of a liquid and can be beneficial, just as everything is nowadays if taken in moderation. They can help lower LDL or bad cholesterol levels. The unhealthy fats are saturated fats and transfats are most of time solids. These fats which opposed to healthy fats raise LDL or bad cholesterol levels which can lead to some pretty significant diseases. Diseases associated with fats can harmful if you do not understand what can happen if you consume too much of them. Eating large quantities of saturated or transfats leads to obesity which in turn can lead to stroke, heart disease, and even diabetes, something we never want to experience, so it’s important to learn the facts. There are many more diseases associated with the amount of fat you eat and how it relates to your body. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes are all types of diseases that we associate without hesitation, but cancer, gall bladder disease, fatty liver disease, and sleep...
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...Our bodies are made of water, protein, minerals, and fat. A two-component model of body composition divides the body into a fat component and fat-free component. Body fat consists of essential fat and storage fat. The fat that is throughout the nervous system (such as in the marrow of bones, in the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, intestines, muscles, and lipid-rich tissues) are all the essential fat. The fat that accumulates in adipose tissue is called storage fat. Storage fat is located around internal organs (internal storage fat) and directly beneath the skin (subcutaneous storage fat). By having excessive fat you put yourselves at risk for many different illnesses. Such as Type 2 Diabetes, excessive body fat has also been linked to cancer. Being overweight can lead to higher cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and diabetes. These are all stroke risk factors. Too much body fat can also lead to heart disease. Obesity is a major health hazard worldwide and is associated with several relatively common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and some cancers. Genes and environment are a major factor in the obesity epidemic. If a child’s family has a history of obesity then there is a great chance that this child will carry the obesity genes. Carrying the gene does not mean you will be obese. It means you may have to work harder than others to control your weight. If the child carries the gene and is raised in environment with obsessed parents who eats...
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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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...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 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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...The Body Fat Loss Experiment Does taking a thermogenic fat loss supplement cause an extra decrease in body fat or is it just the extra exercise and dieting from the individual's commitment itself that causes a greater body fat reduction? Thus, making people believe the excellent results couldn't of resulted on their own without the extra help from the thermogenic? I personally believe that the thermogenic supplement can cause an extra loss in body fat if taken properly. In this small experiment, I (Sean) and Ricky were the experimental group taking a thermogenic supplement from USP labs called OxyElite Pro for 4 weeks. Well my friends Luca and Adrian were the control group who had not taken anything for 4 weeks knowingly. Luca and Adrian had both decided that they did not need the supplement in order lose the same amount of body fat as Sean and Ricky. Since Luca and Adrian were exposed to the same experimental environment, it was only appropriate to consider them as the control group. All four subjects were on the same exact diet which consisted of oatmeal in the morning, a tuna sandwich and green leaf salad for lunch, and steak with broccoli at night. As for their workouts, they were performed together consisting of the same exact routines. Every workout would begin with running for 10min then cycling for 10min and abdominal workouts at the end of every workout for 10min. Biceps and triceps on Monday, back and chest on Tuesday, calves and thighs on Wednesday, Lats/traps/shoulders...
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...Body Fat and Eating Disorders SCT/241 - Nutrition Body Fat and Eating Disorders There is a serious issue that is happening in the world today and its right in front of us, an obesity epidemic and eating disorder. How are we in an epidemic? Well back in 1960, 13.4% of adults were obese; in 1991, 23% were obese and nor more than a decade later 31% are obese and the numbers keep rising (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). Due to this the medical and public health officials have called this situation an epidemic. This epidemic doesn’t affect a specific culture or nation but affects us all and definitely includes children as well. Children and teens, from ages 6 to 19 years of age are overweight. The problem with this epidemic is that with excess body fat increases many health related issues like: high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, gallbladder disease, arthritis, sleep disorders, respiratory problems, and cancers of the breast, uterus, prostate, and colon (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012). We ask, “What can we do to avoid or beat this epidemic since we don’t even know what our body composition is or why it is?” Well our body composition, we can thank our parents since our body size and shape are contained in our genes that were inherited by our parents. Whether you are short and stocky or tall and thin, these traits are handed down. Even our genes get involved in regulating body fatness, these genes are called obesity genes...
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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 University of Phoenix Body Fat and Eating Disorders Having a healthy body composition is important because it allows a person to weigh less and look thinner and you are retaining less fat on the body and have more lean muscle. Body composition which 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. (Wiley, 2015) A healthy body composition produces significantly better overall health. Maintaining a healthy body composition can reduce the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, insulin insensitivity, type two diabetes, hormone imbalance and more. On the flip side of a healthy body composition is an unhealthy body composition. Unhealthy body composition and having excess body fat can lead to obesity which can be linked to health complications. Heart disease, stroke, back pain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, respiratory problems and many more all can be linked with having too much fat on the body. Body weight by itself (what a scale says) is not the only definitive assessment of body composition. In order to see how unhealthy or healthy your body is you can use very non-invasive measurements to help you determine where you stand with body composition. Skin calipers, bioelectrical impedance, hydrostatic...
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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 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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