Physical activity, fitness, and health : international proceedings and consensus statement
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Physical activity, fitness, and health : international proceedings and consensus statement
Human Kinetics Publishers, c1994
Available at 33 libraries
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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health, held in Toronto in May 1992
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Can health-care costs be reduced by increasing the overall level of physical activity? What part does heredity play in physical fitness? How does exercise affect the immune system? What is the relationship between physical activity and hypertension? The search for answers to these and other questions brought exercise scientists and health-policy-makers together in Toronto, Canada, in May 1992 for the Second International Consensus Symposium on Physical Activity, Fitness and Health. The findings from this symposium are available in this volume, which contains the full proceedings, during which nearly 100 scholars and practitioners held discussions on 63 topics in the sport and exercise sciences. For each topic, the contributors to this book have analyzed and summarized the supporting papers that were presented in Toronto. In addition to the proceedings, a consensus statement is included which reflects the contributors' conclusions based on two decades of research on health, fitness and physical activity.
More specifically, the book describes the relationship between health, regular physical activity and physical fitness; examines the effects of growth, gender, ageing and social environments on health and fitness; quantifies the amount of habitual physical activity necessary for given physical and mental-health effects; identifies the quality and extent of research supporting the conclusions reached for each topic addressed; and identifies areas for future research.
Table of Contents
- Physical activity and fitness: evolutionary perspective and trends for the future, Per-Olof Astrand
- heredity, activity level, fitness and health, Claude Bouchard and Louis Perusse
- costs and benefits of an active versus an inactive society, Robert L. Kaman and Robert W. Patton
- laboratory and field tests for assessing health-related fitness, James S. Skinner and Pekka Oja
- measurement of health status and well-being, Carl J. Caspersen et al
- demography of health-related fitness levels within and between populations, Roy J. Shephard
- physical activity and nutrition in the context of fitness and health, Gail E. Butterfield and Angelo Tremblay
- physical activity and the microcirculation in cardiac and skeletal muscle, M. Harold Laughlin et al
- response and adaptation of skeletal muscle to changes in physical activity, John A. Faulkner et al
- physical activity and carbohydrate metabolism, George A. Brooks
- physical activity and ageing - sensory and perceptual processing, George E. Stelmach
- physical activity and psychosocial outcomes, Edward McAuley, physical activity, fitness and atherosclerosis, Sean Moore
- physical activity, fitness and osteoarthritis, Richard S. Panush
- physical activity, fitness and depression, William P. Morgan
- physical activity - relationship to growth, maturation and physical fitness, Robert M. Malina
- exercise training and the male reproductive system, David C. Cumming and Garry D. Wheeler
- risks of exercising - musculoskeletal injuries, Russell A. Pate and Caroline A. Macera
- dose-response issues from a biological perspective, William L. Haskell.
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