Health Matters! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

Health Matters! Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds

• Lesson 3

Obesity Slides from www.foodafactoflife.org.uk

• Extension

Body weight

• Body weight is determined by energy intake from food and energy output, i.e. energy needed for basic body processes (such as keeping the heart beating) and for physical activity.
• If a person regularly takes in even a little more energy from their diet than they need, they will start to gain weight and eventually become overweight.
• Carrying too much extra weight as fat
• may impair health

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Obesity around the world

• The World Health Organisation (WHO) projected in 2005 that there were approximately 1.6 billion overweight adults (age +15) and 400 million obese adults.
• WHO estimated at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight in 2005.

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