health and social care- Physiological Indicators

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What’s an healthy range for BMI?

18.5-24.99

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What’s considered an Underweight BMI?

18.5 and under

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what’s considered an overweight BMI?

25-39.9

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what’s considered an obese BMI?

40 and upward

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what could cause obesity?

high in fat. sugar, and not enough exercise

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Why are some people fat?

they are taking in more energy that they burn. This is stored as fat.

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what are the risk of being overweight short term?

  • reduce mobility

  • shortness of breath

  • high blood pressure

  • joint pain

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what are the long term risks of being obese?

  • cardiovascular problems (heart attack)

  • joint problem (arthritis)

  • type 2 Diabetes

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what are short term risks of being underweight?

  • feeling weak and tired

  • headaches and dizziness

  • period becoming irregular or stopping

  • weakened immune system

  • getting ill more frequently

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what are long term risks of being underweight?

  • slower or abnormal growth

  • fertility problems

  • deficiency decades (low iron leading to anemia, low calcium- fragile bones)

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What’s blood pressure?

the measure of how strongly the blood presses against the walls of the arteries

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what’s considered a low blood pressure?

90/60 or lower

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what’s considered an ideal blood pressure?

99/60 to 120/80

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