Fitness for Life: Lesson 1, Weight of a Nation (Movie)

Type of Work: Indy Product: Guided Movie Notes Class Time: Homework/None EOC: Place inside lesson 1 Due:1 Weekend
Concept: Obesity is common, serious, and costly. More than one-third of adults (35.7%) and approximately 17% of children and adolescents are obese. Behavior and environment play a large role causing people to be overweight and obese. These are the greatest areas for prevention and treatment actions. Weight of the Nation brings together public health researchers and practitioners, policy makers, and national partners devoted to obesity prevention and control to raise awareness across the country as well as share approaches that show promise or demonstrated success for improving healthy eating and active living. Lesson Link: https://sites.google.com/site/hshshealth/home/unit-5-fitness/lesson-1

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Movie Rating: PG-13

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Directions: Watch Part 1 of the series entitled, Consequences. Answer the following questions. 1. Before the movie define the following: Diabetes: Diabetes is usually a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood. High Blood Pressure: Blood pressure is a measure of how hard the blood pushes against the walls of your arteries as it moves through your body. It's normal for blood pressure to go up and down throughout the day, but if it stays up, you have high blood pressure. Another name for high blood pressure is hypertension. Obesity: Obesity means having too much body fat. Cardiovascular System: the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body. Atherosclerosis: Hardening of the arteries Epidemiology: The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases. 2. What is the formula for Body Mass Index (2:29) and what is it meant to measure? Mass (kg)/(height(m))2 used to estimate the proportion of fat a person has based on his height and weight. 3. What are the ranges for BMI (2:37): Healthy= between 18.5&24.9 Overweight=between 25&29.9 Obese= 30 or higher 4. What was historic about the Bogalusa Heart Study? Historic for its discovery that heart disease begins in childhood. 5. What did the researchers find with deceased children in the study that was significant? Why was this significant? (9:45) 20% of autopsied children had plaques in their coronary arteries. Those children were known to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. First scientific evidence that the plaques involved in heart disease can exist in children. 6. What % of the Bogalusa Heart study participants who were obese as children remain obese as adults? (12:48) 77% obese children remain obese 7. What % of society is able to maintain a healthy weight? (14:23) 33% or less 8. The researchers demonstrate two hearts, what are some of the main differences between a healthy heart and a heart from an obese individual?(30:00-33:00) they were very different sizes and with that a big heart leads to more blood needed to be pumped leading to heart failure. 9. What are the 7 factors of ideal cardiovascular health (34:22)?optimal cholesterol, normal blood pressure, not having diabetes, lean body mass index, not being a smoker, physical activity, healthy diet. 10. What is the purpose of fat (39:00) from an evolutionary standpoint? Fat is different used in paintings back ago and women need fat for having a baby

11. What are some of the significant changes we are seeing in the livers of obese individuals (40-50:00), List 3? Excess liver fat, leading to liver disease, heart attack increase 12. Diabetes follows obesity, as night follows day. What are the two main types of Diabetes and explain the differences between the two ( 55:00)? Type 1 Diabetes: bodys immune system destroys the insulin producing cells so insulin therapy is required. Type 2 diabetes: when body cant use insulin properly and no longer makes enough of it. 13. How much does obesity cost the US per year (103:25)? 150 billion dollars a year Level 5/Extra Credit/Going Beyond: A theme of the movie is the relationship between poverty and obesity. This is a complex issue with no easy solution but what does the research say are some of the potential causes of this relationship. List several and cite your research.