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Health and Food Habits
Special Class
by Marco Bucci
April 2013
Body Mass Index
Diet-related Diseases
Child Obesity
A drug called Sugar
Healthy Eating Tips
Index
High BMI increases risk of cancer.
People with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 25, have a higher risk of developing cancer of the breast, uterus, colon, kidney, esophagus, gallbladder, cervix (neck of the uterus), ovary, pancreas, liver, stomach and prostate.
Overweight causes cancer in 14-20% of the cases, 20 percent of the cases of cancer in women and 14 percent in men. This conclusion is based on observation of 900.000 people for 16 years at the American Cancer Society.
BMI (Body Mass Index) and Diseases
BMI = Height ²
Weight
Normal values for BMI are 18.5 - 25. The Body Mass Index is a measure of body fat based on height and weight on adults.
What is a normal BMI?
BMI is not precise if a person is very tall, muscular, a child or adolescent, but the BMI gives you a good sense of direction if you have a healthy body weight or not.
However…
Diet-related diseases
Child obesity in Brazil
33,5% of brazilian kids are obese or overweight...
and 80% of them will be obese adults...
A group of researchers discuss that sugar - which they say is fueling a global obesity pandemic – need to be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health.
Sugar
Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt, Claire D. Brindis. Public health: The toxic truth about sugar. Nature, 2012; 482 (7383)
The average Brazilian consumes 51 kg of sugar per year.
Excessive sugar consumption results in 35 million deaths per
year worldwide (the equivalent of the Canada population).
Sugar
Healthy eating is consuming a variety of foods that gives you the nutrition for your body. It signifies that you need to choose the correct quantity of food from all the food groups and attention to what's in your plate.
What is important is not the quantity, but what you eat.
What is Healthy Eating?
Dietitians decided to change the pyramid by the normal plate.
Whose plate looks like a pyramid?
Food Groups
How to eat?
Metabolism
Basal Metabolic Rate
Thermogenesis
Extra Energy
Calories = ENERGY Energy Not Used = Energy stored = Fat
Let’s consider 2000 calories per day...
5 or 6 meals per day
3 meals per day
= Basal Metabolic Rate = Thermogenesis = Extra Energy
Oat
Oat benefits
BMI helps you know if you have a healthy body weight or not;
Diet-related diseases are the major “killers” in the occidental world;
Increase of child obesity in Brazil will result in an obese generation in the future;
Sugar should be controlled like tobacco and alcohol to protect public health;
Healthy eating habits can reduce the risks of diet-related diseases;
Mind your meals and eat fibers like oat.
In resume
www.nature.com
www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/home
www.muitoalemdopeso.com.br/
www.food.gov.uk/
www.choosemyplate.gov/
www.pubmed.com
References
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