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• Title:Exercise / Manu V. Chakravarthy, Frank W. Booth.
  
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• Author/Creator:Chakravarthy, Manu V.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Booth, Frank W.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia, Pa. : Hanley & Belfus, ©2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QT255 .C43 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Exercise.
  Physical Fitness--physiology.
  Health Promotion.
  Primary Prevention.
  
• Description:x, 326 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Hot topics (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1560535687
  
• Contents:1. From hunting and gathering to 7-11s and TVs
  2. Definitions
  3. Genetic considerations
  4. Physical activity deficiency
  5. Children's health endangered
  6. Health benefits of physical activity
  7. Caloric balance and expenditure
  8. Physical activity prescription
  9. Counseling patients about undertaking physical activity
  10. Management of overweight and obesity
  11. Promotion of routine daily physical activity
  12. Health consequences of physical inactivity
  13. Cardiovascular diseases
  14. Metabolic diseases
  15. Cancer
  16. Aging
  17. Bed rest and spinal cord injury
  18. Pulmonary diseases
  19. Inflammation/immune dysfunction
  20. Neurological disorders
  21. Musculoskeletal disorders
  22. Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  23. Women's health
  24. Physiological regulation of the human genome through physical activity
  25. Inactivity : a fat chance of being healthy!
  App. I. Intensity of physical activity
  App. II. sample physical activity prescription chart
  App. III. Composition of a low-calorie diet.