Smoking and Diet

HAS 3150

Introduction

Video

Kids and Smoking

Smoking Deaths

Diseases

• Cardiovascular disease

• Lung cancer

• Pulmonary disease

• Other cancers

• Diseases among infants

• Burns

Biomedical Basis

• Nicotine

• Tar

• Arsenic

• Benzene

History of smoking

• Pipes, cigars, chewing (spitting) tobacco

• Cigarette rolling machines

• Mass marketing

• Lung cancer

• Surgeon General

• Women and smoking

Congress

• Tobacco growers

• Warning labels

• Clean air acts

Prices and Taxes

• Federal and State Tax

• Teenagers

• Tax increases

Legal Trouble

• Video…

Prevention

• Levels of prevention– Primary– Secondary– Tertiary

• Structures of prevention– Aimed at host– Aimed at agent– Aimed at environment

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• The host– Stop smoking … behavior

• The agent– Cigarettes/tobacco

• The environment– Reward for not smoking

Body Fat Exercise

Body Mass Index

Why body fat?

• Better measure of fitness

• Better idea of your health risk

• Prevents you from being misclassified

• Lets you know the composition of your weight loss

• Can help you identify fad diets

Why Keep Track

• It can help you maintain

• It helps you make important health-related decisions.

• It can be motivational!

• It's an excellent way to check to see if you are achieving your goals.

• It's now easy to do.

Body Fat Quiz

• There are two types of body fat: essential fat and storage fat.

• There is a health range of body fat and it is the same for men and women.

• Thirty percent body fat is healthy for women.

Body Fat Quiz (cont)

• If your body fat goes above the healthy range, you are at increased risk for developing certain diseases.

• It doesn’t matter whether you carry your fat around your waist or your hips or thigh. Fat is fat!

Body Fat Quiz (cont)

• The more lean body mass (muscle) you have, the easier it is to maintain your weight.

• Strength (“resistance”) training can help you increase your lean body mass.

• Aiming to lower your percent body fat is always better.

Body Fat Quiz (cont)

• When you lose weight, you lose both lean mass and fat.

• To lose weight, it doesn’t matter what kind of method you use as long as your weight goes down.

What is body fat?

• One of the basic components The other components include muscle, water, bone and your organs

• Body fat can be divided into two categories: Essential fat and storage fat.

Healthy Range…

Age Female Male

18-39 21-32% 8-19%

40-59 23-33% 11-21%

60-79 24-35% 13-24%

Healthy Range…

• Can body fat percent be too high?• Increases the risk of many diseases,

including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, and certain cancers.

• When located around the abdomen, increases the risk even further of developing the above conditions.

Healthy Range…

• Can body fat percent be too low?

• Is linked to problems with normal, healthy functioning in both men and women.

• Can lead to problems with reproduction in women.

Lean body mass…

Lean body mass is commonly used to describe the muscles in your arms, legs, back, neck and abdomen. But actually it also includes your heart muscle, and the tissues of your other internal organs as well as water, and bone. This is the part of your body you want to preserve or expand.

Lean body mass

• Increase using resistance training

• Gain weight

• Lose weight

Best method to lose…

• Maintain hydration

• Lose more storage fat

• Lose little lean body mass

• Balanced eating

• Physical activity

Measurement tools

• Bioelectrical impedance

• Body Mass Index• Dual energy x-ray

absorptionmetry• Girth measurements

• Near infrared interactance

• Skinfold measurements

• Underwater weighing

“All About Me”

• http://www.shapeup.org/bodylab/frmst.htm

Questions…

• What level of prevention is this discussion and exercise?– Primary, secondary, or tertiary

• When might it be secondary or tertiary

• Prevention of heart disease…

• The host ______________

• The environment ______________

• The agent ______________

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