Exercise and diseases prevention through training

Regular exercise increases the average life span and the quality of life. These effects are mediated by the fact that regular exercise is preventive to a number of diseases. This work covers the effects of exercise on the most common health threatening diseases

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Other Authors: Radak, Zsolt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Meyer & Meyer Sport 2005
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Table of Contents:
  • Alzheimer as a disease of metabolic demand: benefits of physical and brain exercise
  • Exercise and inflammatory disease: beneficial effects of exercise as a stimulus of hormesis
  • Exercise, oxidative stress and muscle diseases
  • Immobilization, physical activity and rehabilitation
  • Exercise and rehabilitation from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in asthma
  • Antioxidants, exercise and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury
  • Exercise and immune system-related disease
  • Exercise and type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Exercise and cancer.