Crash Obesity Course: A Beginner’s Guide

Crash Obesity Course: A Beginner’s Guide free download

Empowering Yourself with Knowledge about Obesity

This obesity course provides an intensive overview of obesity. It helps to understand obesity including its definitions, statistics on prevalence, and the ways to diagnose and the different ways to measure body composition (like BMI). It helps you to define key terms like "obesity," "overweight," and "body mass index" (BMI). It helps you explain different methods for measuring body composition (e.g., BMI, body fat percentage) and analyze the global and national prevalence of obesity and its impact on healthcare systems. It would also delve into etiology and pathophysiology of obesity and health risks and complications of obesity. It analyzes the biological mechanisms linking obesity to the development of comorbidities (e.g., chronic inflammation, insulin resistance). It also shows and explains the increased risk for specific comorbidities in obese populations, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke), certain cancers (e.g., breast, colon), musculoskeletal disorders (e.g., osteoarthritis), sleep apnea and mental health conditions (e.g., depression). This course is crucial, focusing on strategies to create long-term changes in diet and exercise routines. It covers goal setting, healthy meal planning, portion control, and finding enjoyable physical activities. This course addressed the management of obesity including obesity pharmacotherapy, and options of bariatric surgery, and long term follow up of these patients.