Biology 2485B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Overnutrition, Malnutrition, Food Energy
4 Jan 2019
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Increases of the incidence of obesity are related to the ways we are modifying our environment. Mainly in developing countries: some people experience overnutrition, where they get too many calories each day. In canada, 48% of adults exceed their healthy weight and 14% are obese: some people experience malnutrition, a shortage of they nutrients the body needs, even though they may not be undernourished. The diet lacks adequate vitamins and minerals. Individuals are not getting the right proportion of nutrients that they need. Rise in obesity first observed in us in late 1980s. The increases in the incident or the proportion of individuals that are clinically obese. Arise in that incidence was noted in the u. s in the 1980s. Data from the us for men and women overtime. Starting somewhere in the mid-1970s, there was a rapid increase in the proportion of individuals in the us that could be classified as clinically obese or extreme obesity.
