EXPH 369 EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Treatment and Management of Obesity - ✔✔Dietary manipulation (easier than
exercise)
Physical activity intervention
Behavior modification
Cognitive restructuring
Pharmacological intervention
Surgical intervention
Medically supervised modified fasts
✔✔Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔self-imposed starvation in an effort to lose weight and
achieve thinness
Is characterized by:
severe fear of obesity and
distorted body image.
✔✔Bulimia nervosa - ✔✔Is characterized by:
-recurrent consumption of food in amounts significantly greater than would customarily
be consumed at one sitting
-purging after the bingeing
✔✔Warning Signs for Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Commenting repeatedly about being or
feeling fat
Dramatic weight loss for no medical reason
,Reaching a weight that is below the ideal competitive weight
Continuing to lose weight during the off-season
Other hormonal considerations
✔✔Warning Signs for Bulimia - ✔✔Eating secretively
Disappearing immediately after eating
Appearing nervous or agitated if something prevents being alone shortly after eating
Losing or gaining extreme amounts of weight
Smell or remnants of vomit
Disappearance of large amounts of food
✔✔Warning Signs for Both Disorders - ✔✔Complaining frequently of constipation or
stomach aches
Mood swings
Social withdrawal
Relentless, excessive exercise
Excessive concern about weight
Strict dieting followed by binges
Increasing criticism of one's body
Strong denial that a problem exists
✔✔Eating Disorders Treatment - ✔✔they are a complex psychological disorders that
cannot be corrected by normalizing weight or food intake
they can be linked to self-esteem, family, stress, etc.
✔✔Prevention of Eating Disorders - ✔✔Provide weight-loss guidance
Weigh and measure body composition with a purpose
Use individualized standards for body composition
, ✔✔Cortisol - ✔✔released in response to fear or stress by the adrenal glands as part of
the fight-or-flight mechanism
✔✔Elevated Cortisol Levels - ✔✔interfere with learning and memory, lower immune
function and bone density, increase weight gain, BP, cholesterol, and heart disease
✔✔Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels - ✔✔increase risk for depression, mental
illness, and lower life expectancy
✔✔Hormones - ✔✔Chemical signals that affect the activity of other glands and tissues.
Hormones drive development, growth, puberty and reproduction.
Secreted from ductless glands.
Cause cells to respond, change, and produce specific proteins that will direct our bodies
Are Bioactive molecules secreted by Endocrine glands that travel to target tissues via
blood stream
✔✔Endocrine System - ✔✔all glands are *ductless* glands
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - ✔✔Identified by Hans Selye
Theoretical basis for periodization: training people to get them stronger
Three stages:
1) alarm reaction
2) stage of resistance
3) stage of exhaustion
✔✔GAS Stage 1: Alarm Reaction - ✔✔immediate response to stressor
fight or flight
✔✔GAS Stage 2: Resistance - ✔✔Body tries to adapt to stressor
Hormonal changes to cope with stress
Conservation of resources
Effects on activity level, feeding etc.
Not necessarily harmful
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Treatment and Management of Obesity - ✔✔Dietary manipulation (easier than
exercise)
Physical activity intervention
Behavior modification
Cognitive restructuring
Pharmacological intervention
Surgical intervention
Medically supervised modified fasts
✔✔Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔self-imposed starvation in an effort to lose weight and
achieve thinness
Is characterized by:
severe fear of obesity and
distorted body image.
✔✔Bulimia nervosa - ✔✔Is characterized by:
-recurrent consumption of food in amounts significantly greater than would customarily
be consumed at one sitting
-purging after the bingeing
✔✔Warning Signs for Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Commenting repeatedly about being or
feeling fat
Dramatic weight loss for no medical reason
,Reaching a weight that is below the ideal competitive weight
Continuing to lose weight during the off-season
Other hormonal considerations
✔✔Warning Signs for Bulimia - ✔✔Eating secretively
Disappearing immediately after eating
Appearing nervous or agitated if something prevents being alone shortly after eating
Losing or gaining extreme amounts of weight
Smell or remnants of vomit
Disappearance of large amounts of food
✔✔Warning Signs for Both Disorders - ✔✔Complaining frequently of constipation or
stomach aches
Mood swings
Social withdrawal
Relentless, excessive exercise
Excessive concern about weight
Strict dieting followed by binges
Increasing criticism of one's body
Strong denial that a problem exists
✔✔Eating Disorders Treatment - ✔✔they are a complex psychological disorders that
cannot be corrected by normalizing weight or food intake
they can be linked to self-esteem, family, stress, etc.
✔✔Prevention of Eating Disorders - ✔✔Provide weight-loss guidance
Weigh and measure body composition with a purpose
Use individualized standards for body composition
, ✔✔Cortisol - ✔✔released in response to fear or stress by the adrenal glands as part of
the fight-or-flight mechanism
✔✔Elevated Cortisol Levels - ✔✔interfere with learning and memory, lower immune
function and bone density, increase weight gain, BP, cholesterol, and heart disease
✔✔Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels - ✔✔increase risk for depression, mental
illness, and lower life expectancy
✔✔Hormones - ✔✔Chemical signals that affect the activity of other glands and tissues.
Hormones drive development, growth, puberty and reproduction.
Secreted from ductless glands.
Cause cells to respond, change, and produce specific proteins that will direct our bodies
Are Bioactive molecules secreted by Endocrine glands that travel to target tissues via
blood stream
✔✔Endocrine System - ✔✔all glands are *ductless* glands
✔✔General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - ✔✔Identified by Hans Selye
Theoretical basis for periodization: training people to get them stronger
Three stages:
1) alarm reaction
2) stage of resistance
3) stage of exhaustion
✔✔GAS Stage 1: Alarm Reaction - ✔✔immediate response to stressor
fight or flight
✔✔GAS Stage 2: Resistance - ✔✔Body tries to adapt to stressor
Hormonal changes to cope with stress
Conservation of resources
Effects on activity level, feeding etc.
Not necessarily harmful
