Foundations of Personal Fitness

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What You Will Do

• Identify health risks related to overweight and
  underweight.
• Identify impaired glucose tolerance and its role
  in diabetes.
• Evaluate the effect of overweight on physical
  activity.

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Terms to Know

• excessive weight disabilities
• sleep apnea
• impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)

• insulin
• underweight

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Overweight and Youth

• The number of teens in this country who are
  overweight has tripled. This is a cause of major
  concern among health professionals.
• Developing a healthy eating plan as a teen will
  reduce your risk of becoming overweight as you
  age.

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The Effect of Overweight on Health

• Being overweight can affect a persons
  self-esteem and quality of life.
• Being excessively overweight is linked with a
  number of chronic physical diseases and
  conditions.

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The Effect of Overweight on Health

• Conditions such as breathing difficulties and
  bone and joint problems are grouped together
  under the heading excessive weight disabilities.

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The Effect of Overweight on Health

• Overweight people are at a higher risk for sleep
  apnea.

Untreated sleep apnea can cause high blood
pressure and other cardiovascular diseases,
memory problems, weight gain, and headaches.
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The Effect of Overweight on Health

• Another serious condition related to overweight
  is impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

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The Effect of Overweight on Health

• Often in those with IGT, the pancreas produces
  too little insulin to convert food into glucose,
  which is then stored in the blood.

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Underweight

• In the face of the overweight epidemic, it is
  easy to lose sight of the reverse problembeing
  excessively lean, or underweight.

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Lesson 1 Review
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary

1. Recall List and describe two health problems
   related to overweight.
2. Vocabulary What is sleep apnea?
3. Vocabulary Define underweight.