Exercise for Preventing Common Diseases [Paperback]

What is the role of exercise in maintaining good health and preventing metabolic disease, hypertension, cardiorespiratory disease, cancer, and obesity? What is the optimal exercise level to prevent such common diseases and conditions? These important questions were addressed and discussed by researchers, therapists, and physicians at the international symposium Optimal Exercise for Preventing Common Diseases, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 1998, in conjunction with the Fukuoka University Research Center. This book compiles the papers presented at the symposium, giving state-of-the-art information that will be especially valuable to exercise physiologists, physical therapists, and those working in the field of sports medicine.What is the role of exercise in maintaining good health and preventing metabolic disease, hypertension, cardiorespiratory disease, cancer, and obesity? What is the optimal exercise level to prevent such common diseases and conditions? These important questions were addressed and discussed by researchers, therapists, and physicians at the international symposium Optimal Exercise for Preventing Common Diseases, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 1998, in conjunction with the Fukuoka University Research Center. This book compiles the papers presented at the symposium, giving state-of-the-art information that will be especially valuable to exercise physiologists, physical therapists, and those working in the field of sports medicine.Exercise and Metabolic Disease.- Molecular and Cellular Studies of the Influence of Activity on the Maintenance of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle in Relation to General Health.- Effects of Mild Exercise on Glucose Effectiveness.- Physical Fitness and Body Fat Distribution: Relation to Risk Factors for Metabolic Diseases in Obese Women.- Exercise and Obesity: What Is a Reasonable Approach?.- Exercise and Hypertension.- Association Between Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism of the Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme Gene and BloodlCk