Exam 3: Obesity : Is Fat the New Normal

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) publishes evidence-based recommendations for clinical prevention.

If you wanted to prevent, rather than treat overweight populations, you would use:

One projection in the year 2030, in the absence of substantial change, is that about 50% of the U.S. population would be obese.

Rather than just calculating BMI, for children, which of the following measures are used?

Use of "traffic-light" labels was ineffective in changing individual's food choices.

According to the World Health Organization, what percentage of the world' population iw overweight?

In 2005, the Institute of Medicine described an epidemic in all U.S. states, across all socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The epidemic was:

Most worrisome from results of a survey by Russell Research for Pollock Communications is that younger individuals are less likely to believe they were overweight when they were.

In the Nurses' Health Study, there was a relationship between weight and mortality, but it was not statistically significant.

Generally, from results of a survey by Russell Research for Pollock Communications, people's perception of whether or not they were overweight was generally correct.

Some of the most effective strategies to improve nutrition and physical activity include environmental change in home, schools, and communities.

Children's overweight has been associated with lower self-esteem in children as young as 5 years old.

When measuring obesity, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has a category of extreme obesity and adds measurement of waist circumference.

According to the CDC, which of the following health risks are greater for obese children?

When looking at self-reported obesity rates in the United States, obesity rates are highest in which geographic region?

Overweight and obesity are defined by the World Health Organization as "abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health."

Sources of data about obesity in the United States come from:

As one of the "actual causes of death" in the United States, poor diet and physical inactivity contribute to about how many deaths each year?

Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as:

The Community Preventive Services Task Force publishes evidence-based recommendations for prevention in entire populations.