PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Anorexia Nervosa, Surgeon General Of The United States, Binge Eating
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A positive state that includes striving for optimal health and life satisfaction: many people consider tests to be a stressor because they feel threatened. Experiencing stressors cause stress responses that can have negative effects. But these can be reduced by mediating factors, such as coping strategies: biopsychosocial model. A model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioral, and social factors on health and illness. This model is central to understanding the difference between the traditional medical model and the approach taken by health psychologists: body mass index (bmi) A ratio of body weight to height, used to measure obesity. Fewer than 15 percent of the u. s. population met the criteria for obesity in 1980, but more than. According to the world health organization, obesity has doubled around the globe since. Extreme obesity is having a bmi over 40: overeating. Most individuals who lose weight through dieting eventually regain it. Often, these individuals gain back more than they lost.
