True or False: Although a majority of Americans are overweight, only about 20% of Americans are considered obese?
Answer: False, it is currently at 36%
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Achieving and Maintaining a Healthful Body Weight
- What is the thermic effect of food?
- Why is there a difference between the sexes when it comes to calculating BMR?
- how do you determine BMR for females?
- how do you determine BMR for males?
- How does age effect BMR?
- What is the primary determinant for BMR?
- How much of the daily energy does BMR account for?
- What do some base (resting) functions include?
- What is Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)?
- what is energy expenditure influenced by?
- what are the three things that energy expenditure is based on?
- How is energy intake expressed?
- What are other factors that determine weight gain or loss?
- Ultimately, what determines whether there is weight gain or loss?
- what are the cons to using body composition to evaluate body weight?
- what are the pros to using body composition to evaluate body weight?
- what are the cons to using fat distribution to evaluate body weight?
- what are the pros to using fat distribution to evaluate body weight?
- what are the cons to using BMI to evaluate body weight?
- what are the pros to using BMI to measure body weight?
- what are three way to evaluate body weight?
- who are the most likely to have pear shaped pattern?
- is there a risk with the pear shaped pattern?
- what is the pear shaped fat distribution problem?
- who are likely to have an apple shaped pattern?