Cardiovascular System
Amount of force inside arteries/ vessels in your body.
What is blood pressure?
Our largest internal organ, helps with digestion, helps remove toxins from blood, stores vitamins and minerals.
What is the liver?
Fat, calories, protein, sugar, fiber, ingredient lists.
What are nutrients/ items to pay attention to in your diet/ on food labels?
Eating to fill emotional need as opposed to eating for real hunger.
What is emotional eating?
This habit harms nearly every organ in your body. Quitting can undo a lot of this damage.
Smoking.
Smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, lack of exercise, poor diet, stress, high cholesterol, diabetes.
What are risk factors/ contributors to heart disease?
About 30% of Americans have this disease. The liver becomes filled with fat. Can lead to cirrhosis. Increases risk for cardiovascular disease.
What is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)?
2,000 calorie diet
What guideline/ standard does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require for information on food labels?
Stress, boredom, feeling empty, childhood habits, social influence.
What are causes of emotional eating?
Brain, cardiovascular system, lungs, skin, endocrine system, hormones, muscles, bones, senses, oral health.
What are parts of your body that smoking harms?
Healthy diet, exercise, quitting smoking, managing stress, limit alcohol, manage high cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes.
What are ways to reduce heart disease?
Being overweight, high fat/ high sugar diet, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, excessive alcohol.
What are causes/ factors that lead to fatty liver disease?
About 25 grams for women and 36 grams for men daily.
What is the daily recommended sugar intake by the American Heart Association?
Powerful hunger coming on suddenly, specific food cravings, mindless eating, still being hungry after eating.
What are signs of emotional eating?
Blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal. Body temperature returns to normal.
What happens after 20 minutes of stopping smoking?
Blood pressure reading of 120/80
What is a normal blood pressure?
Weight loss, diet change, exercise, refrain from drinking.
What are ways to reduce risk/ improve fatty liver disease?
The amount of a food product to eat that will reflect amounts of fat, protein, sugar, and fiber on the label.
What is a serving size?
Identify triggers, keep a journal, fight boredom and loneliness, take care of yourself.
What are ways to reduce emotional eating?
Risk of heart attack decreases. (timeframe)
What happens after quitting for 24 hours?
Stroke, heart attack, vision loss, kidney disease, peripheral artery disease, erectile dysfunction.
What are consequences of cardiovascular disease?
Getting regular check ups and completing bloodwork with your regular doctor.
What are ways to find out if you have fatty liver disease?
Nutrient-dense foods, fruit, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, limited added sugars and saturated fat, low sodium.
What is a healthy diet?
Picture a STOP sign and wait five minute before eating.
What is a trick/ technique you can use to reduce episodes of emotional eating?
Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, or esophagus is cut in half. Stroke risk similar to that of one who has never smoked.
What happens after 5 years of quitting?