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Fast Food: (n): food that can be prepared quickly and easily, typically containing preheated or precooked ingredients.
Education: Accountability of the government on the education of Americans; what they are eating when they eat fast food and what other options are available to them.
Health/Nutrition: Legislate against the use of chemicals and additives that make food addicting. Focus on what is in the fast food that is leading to obesity and chronic diseases.
Public Policy: Analyze the role of the FDA and the fast food industry; how can we make everyone follow through with regulations?
March 21st: legislation proposed to create a Board of Directors to oversee the FDA with the purpose of "evaluating the agency's on going performance and coming up with ways to improve its performance and regulatory processes". This would focus specifically on the drugs and medicine within the FDA.
focuses on the political processes that the government implements and enforces.
advances knowledge and the development of reasoning and judgement to prepare others intellectually.
Focuses on the scientific and clinical interaction of nutrition and health on the human body.
Bethany Kent
Libby McWilliams
Joanna Vielman
A series of ten studies found that obese people were 80% more likely to later develop Alzheimer's disease.
Low self-esteem & mood disorders
rose by 56% among obese individuals.
Results of a health survey found a positive correlation between depression and obesity.
Obesity is associated with a 52% increased risk of a new diagnoses of asthma in children and adolescents.
Psychosocial Problems
Lungs and respiratory system
Kidneys
Muscoskeletal
Neurological
Heart and circulatory system
Hormonal system
Obese individuals are 83% more likely to develop kidney disease.
People who are overweight are more likely to have high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats, and LDL, or bad cholesterol, which are all risk factors for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
1970: $6 billion
2000: >$110 billion
68.8% of people diagnosed with
arthritis were overweight or
obese.
Obese adults are 4 times more
likely to develop osteoarthritis
of the knee.
Adult obesity rates have grown from 15 % in 1980 to 34 % in 2008.
Nearly 32 percent of U.S. children and adolescents ages 2–19 are overweight or obese.
80% of type II diabetes is related to obesity.
-Visceral: Referring to the viscera, the internal organs of the body, specifically those within the chest (as the heart or lungs) or abdomen (as the liver, pancreas or intestines).
- Visceral fat is found in the intra-abdominal cavity