Weight of the Nation

According to one of the Speakers, anyone who has ever lost weight will tell you it is ______ to sustain the weight loss than to lose the weight itself.

True or False: Individuals losing weight are metabolically the same as they were before they lost weight

True or False: Having a successful year or two weight loss, means that you’re going to be able to go back to eating at the rate that would be appropriate for a person who had never lost weight.

True or False: After weight loss the body is a less metabolically efficient organism.

True or False: According the speaker, the studies mentioned indicate the decline in energy expenditure an increase in the drive to eat which can account for the common experience of weight gain after successful weight loss.

Leptin is a _______ produced by fat cells and plays a crucial role in regulating body weight.

True or False: Studies show that there is a very complex response of the body to weight loss. Once the body undergoes weight reduction, it begins to respond as if it were being threatened with imminent death.

True or False: After weight loss, the brain begins to invoke the responses that result in regaining weight. It slows your metabolism to below what you’d expect at a lower body size, increases your drive to eat and changes the functions and parts of the brain that respond to palatability.