The Role Of Physical Exercise In Preventing Disease And Improving The Quality Of Life

Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual's psycho-physical balance. In particular, it has been demonstrated that prolonged regular physical activity (now defined in scientific publications as chronic physical activity) helps to significantly reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases, which are often associated with ageing, while at the same time bolstering the immune system. Promoting physical activity therefore helps preventing today's major health challenges, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiorespiratory diseases, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, and cancer, thus leading to a reduction in healthcare costs and freeing up resources for future generations. The volume will be an essential reading for all health professionals and for residents in medicine and in health and physical exercise.

Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual's psycho-physical balance. In particular, it has been demonstrated that prolonged regular physical activity (now defined in scientific publications as chronic physical activity) helps to significantly reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases, which are often associated with ageing, while at the same time bolstering the immune system.

Promoting physical activity therefore helps preventing today's major health challenges, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiorespiratory diseases, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, and cancer, thus leading to a reduction in healthcare costs and freeing up resources for future generations.

The volume will be an essential reading for all health professionals and for residents in medicine and in health and physical exercise.

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Reviewer:Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP(Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description:This is an excellent compendium of the current understanding of the role of exercise in human metabolism. An impressive list of world experts in muscle metabolism contribute chapters that clinicians will find easy to understand.
Purpose:The intent is to review the current literature of muscle metabolism and how it pertains to exercise physiology and then go a step further to correlate this information to clinical topics such as obesity, the metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The book pulls together the basic science with the clinical applications very well.
Audience:The intended audience appears to be both current and future researchers in muscle metabolism, but the book will serve clinical investigators as well.
Features:The book does an excellent job of reviewing the literature of basic molecular muscle biology. A significant contribution is the elucidation of the recent research of muscle aging in a clinically oriented manner that presents a valuable explanation of how physical exercise can prevent and treat obesity. Finally, it presents valuable specific advice for counseling patients in the value of exercise to improve their quality of life.
Assessment:This is a significant addition to both a clinician's and a researcher's library. It defines the state-of-the-art of the current understanding of muscle metabolism and how it relates to some of the major metabolic diseases encountered in epidemic proportions today.

The aim of this volume is to underline that promoting physical activity is crucial to preventing illness and maintaining our health, thus leading to a reduction in healthcare costs. Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual's psycho-physical balance. Physical activity therefore helps in tackling today's major health challenges, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiorespiratory diseases. cover-image-large.jpg 1 front-matter.pdf 2 Section I.pdf 17 fulltext_001.pdf 18 fulltext_002.pdf 38 Section II.pdf 49 fulltext_003.pdf 50 fulltext_004.pdf 74 fulltext_005.pdf 95 Section III.pdf 112 fulltext_006.pdf 113 Section IV.pdf 122 fulltext_007.pdf 123 fulltext_008.pdf 141 fulltext_009.pdf 153 Section V.pdf 167 fulltext_010.pdf 168 fulltext_011.pdf 178 Section VI.pdf 187 fulltext_012.pdf 188 fulltext_013.pdf 196 fulltext_014.pdf 207 back-matter.pdf 222 Over the last decade studies have shown that physical exercise plays an important role in maintaining an individual's psycho-physical balance. This text explains that prolonged regular physical activity helps to reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases