NFS284H1 Lecture Notes - Orlistat, Energy Density, Cardiovascular Disease
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Nfs284 chapter 7 energy balance and weight management. If bmi is too high or too low, then increased risk of mortality. We are seeing this globally, instead of just being a characteristic of developed worlds. This emphasizes the fact that obesity (bmi > 25) is a global problem. The relationship between body weight and various risk factors for health. These risks to heatlh all increase as body weight increases. Lung cancer is a consequence of cigarette smoking than nutrition. Prostate cancer doesn"t have as strong of an association with obesity in terms of developing the disease, compared to the other cancers. The mutations change the cell in a number of different ways. They cause de-differentiation of cells and cells become proliferative (rapidly dividing). A normal cell has a stop signal, which are lost in the transition from a normal to a cancerous cell. If the cell cannot repair its own dna, it will induce cell death.
