Eating disorders : obesity

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1. (Behavioural theory)Where did Jackson believe the roots of obesity to be?

  • Sadness, where eating more made one feel better
  • Childhood, with children encouraged to believe that clearing their plate was the right thing to do making them a good child
  • Adulthood, where eating more was more socially acceptable than eating less
  • No where and it comes with age and decrease if metabolism
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2. How much in the USA in 1998 was spent on treating obesity?

  • $5bn
  • $78.5bn
  • $45m
  • $1m

3. The highest obesity rates are where and how much?

  • The USA
  • Great Britain with 65% obesity rate
  • South Pacific Islanders of Nauru with 80% obesity rate
  • Europe with the most obesity rate in the world

4. Where is leptin produced?

  • Brain
  • Hypothalamus
  • Intestines
  • Stomach

5. The evolutionary theory regarding what triggers obesity says that

  • Maladaptive instincts that developed at a time where food was scarce means that some modern humans continue to behave that food is scarce, resulting in over eating
  • Obesity is innate and comes from an era where everyone was obese
  • Obesity doesn't exist
  • Some people are naturally bigger than others because throughout evolution they were the longer lasting survivors in a pack
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