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Understanding Fitness How Exercise Fuels Health and Fights Disease
Julie K. Silver, Christopher Morin
Book Code: C9494
ISBN: 0-275-99494-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99494-5
240 pages, photos, tables, figures
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2008
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Editors Silver (Harvard Medical School) and Morin (founder, American Fitness Testing Association) have assembled an impressive cadre of writers for this title in The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Livnig. This volume will be a necessary text for schools with programs in sports medicine, athletic training, premedicine, and physical therapy. It starts with an excellent, detailed overview of the history of exercise in health....Understanding Fitness fills a significant gap for readers in general concerning how exercise improices health....Essential.
    —Choice     December 2008
  • If you want to know how different types of exercise really work physiologically to keep us healthy and prevent or treat disease, then Understanding Fitness has the answers. Two nationally known exercise experts, Dr. Julie K. Silver and Christopher Morin, and a team of contributors explain in reader-friendly terms what specific exercises and sports do to our bodies. Exercises for specific conditions from arthritis to cancer and fibromyalgia also are detailed. One tidbit: Golfers who walk the full 18 holes of a course meet the recommendation to accumulate 10,000 steps per day. Some walk more than four miles.
    —The Indianapolis Star     May 20, 2008
Description: We've all heard the mantra, "exercise for good health." In fact, exercise, or lack of it, may be the most important factor in avoiding, or surviving and recovering from, the top three killers across developed countries--heart disease, cancer, and stroke. But few of us understand exactly how different forms of exercise work--physiologically speaking--to keep us healthy and prevent or treat disease. Here, two nationally known exercise experts lead a stellar team explaining, in reader-friendly terms, what exercise does to our bodies and how it spurs beneficial biological actions. In addition to explaining how and why exercise powers us and promotes longer life, Understanding Fitness includes a review of social factors affecting exercise. Exercise for specific conditions--from arthritis to cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, and osteoporosis, is also addressed.
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Historical Exercise Traditions from a Health Perspective
  • Chapter 2 Cardiovascular Health Benefits
  • Chapter 3 Pulmonary Health Benefits
  • Chapter 3a Strength Training Health Benefits
  • Chapter 4 Flexibility Health Benefits
  • Chapter 5 Functional Training Health Benefits
  • Chapter 6 Sport Specific Health Benefits Exercise in Specific Medical Conditions
  • Chapter 7 Exercise and Obesity
  • Chapter 8 Exercise and Diabetes
  • Chapter 9 Exercise and Arthritis
  • Chapter 10 Exercise and Osteoporosis
  • Chapter 11 Exercise and Fibromyalgia
  • Chapter 12 Exercise and Cancer
  • Chapter 13 Exercise and Gastrointestinal Disorders
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors
LC Card Number: 2008000237
LCC Class: RA781
Dewey Class: 613
PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf
Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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