Complementary Medicine Exam 2 (Obesity) Flashcards
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Typical Body Composition (Male and Female)
Male:
Muscle (45%), Essential Fat (3%), Nonessential fat (12%), Bone (15%), Other (25%)
Female:
Muscle (36%), Essential Fat (12%), Nonessential fat (15%), Bone (12%), Other (25%)
Differences in fat and muscle in males and females
Body Fat: 15% total in men (12% storage, 3% essential), 27% total in women (15% storage, 12% essential)
Muscle: 31% in men, 20.4% in women
Lean Body Mass (LBM)
LBM is an in vivo concept essential for normal physiological functioning throughout the lifespan
In men, FFM includes 3% essential fat and 12% essential fat in women
LBM vs FFM
LBM includes lipid rich essential fat stores in bone marrow, brain, spinal cord and internal organs. FFM does not include this essential fat.
Obesity Key Facts
Doubled worldwide since 1980
More women than men obese
High percentage of children (17%) are obese
What Obesity causes
Energy imbalance between calories consumed and those expended.
Global increase in intake of energy dense foods high in fat.
Increase in inactivity – many causes
Other factors include diet and physical activity patterns, lack of policy, agriculture, food production, distribution and marketing, etc.
Malnutrition
An acute, subacute or chronic state of nutrition in which varying degrees of overnutrition or undernutrition with or without inflammation activity have led to a change in body composition and diminished function.
Malnutrition prevalence
High prevalence in hospitals.
Leads to high rates of cancer (GI, head and neck, lung and pancreatic)
Also increases in COPD and cerebrovascular accident
Obesity can be a long-term, low level _______________
Catabolic Stress
Catabolic stress shifts
Acute phase responses elicit cytokine-mediated responses and favors the catabolic state; obesity is a long-term catabolic stressor
Acute phase metabolic response favors increase in REE, shift towards positive acute phase reactants, export of amino acids from muscle, increase in gluconeogenesis and expansion of ECF
Downregulation of liver proteins such as albumin in order to increase proteins needed for immune response such as clotting and wound healing.
Inflammation promotes
Muscle catabolism, inhibition of protein synthesis and repair, hyperglycemia, decreased visceral proteins, edema, anorexia, deconditioning/sarcopenia
Inflammation in the brain can cause loss of appetite.
Sarcopenia can result from
1 day of bed-rest; or 1 day in space
Starvation-related malnutrition
No inflammation
Limited access to food; anorexia nervosa, marasmus
Chronic disease-related malnutrition
Mild to moderate inflammation
Organ failure, pancreatic cancer, RA, sarcopenic obesity
Acute disease or injury-related malnutrition
Marked inflammatory response present
Infection, burns, trauma or closed head injury
How is malnutrition defined?
By presence or absence of inflammation
Sarcopenic obesity
Low lean body mass and excessive animosity
Main components of malnutrition identification guide
% caloric intake (under 75% for non-severe, or under 50% in severe)
% weight loss (wk, mo or 3 mo)
Decrease in sub q fat, decrease in muscle, increase in fluid/edema
Reduced grip strength (indication of severe malnutrition)
Chronic obesity is ___________ related
Stress related
When you have obesity in a chronic context, particularly if you are sarcopenic and have low LBM, you have chronic disease related malnutiriton.
Define Obesity
Complex multifactorial chronic disease that develops from interaction of genotype and the environment.
Our understanding is incomplete buy involves social, behavioral, cultural, physiological, metabolic and genetic factors.
Between what years did overweight and obesity prevalence spike?
1976 and 1980
Prevalence of obesity based on ethnic background
African American, Mexican American, Native American, Puerto Rican and White
Higher in females than in males in all groups
Geographic relationship in US between obesity and ___________________
Physical inactivity patterns
It has been hypothesized that care of _______________ will break our health system financially
Type 2 Diabetes