PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Insulin Receptor, Cardiovascular Disease, Chromosome

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Janet L Menard

Document Summary

The bmi is imprecise because it does not differentiate between muscle and fat. There are all sorts of health complications associated w/ obesity. Greater risk for cardiovascular disease including heart attacks, stroke, greater risk for type 2 diabetes, greater risk for ad. Possibility ad might be type 3 diabetes. 1 pancreas no produce enough insuling, 2 insulin receptors not effective, 3- insulin receptor in cns no longer sensitive to insulin! Psychological problem this is not true in all cases! People need to realize that people don"t choose their body type. Obesity has huge costs to the health care system. Canada is up at rate of the top which are close to 25%! Quebec is doing really well, so is bc saskatchewan is not doing really well! We are now seeing the emergence of health conditions in children that we did not used to see until middle age!