Full Description
Published in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine, The Exercise Professional's Guide to Optimizing Health enables you to design and implement exercise programs based on the latest research to help people avoid the onset of chronic disease. Moreover, it shows you how to design exercise programs so that people with chronic disease can safely benefit from exercise.
This text begins with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic disease and is then divided into three parts. Part One clearly explains pathophysiology concepts common to all chronic diseases as well as the healthful effects of exercise and nutrition. Part Two covers atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, with specific recommendations for effective exercise programs to manage each disease. Finally, Part Three discusses behavior change and then summarizes all the exercise prescription information for each chronic disease in a single chapter.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Epidemiology of Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Theory
Part I Overview
Chapter 2 Pathophysiology of Chronic Disease
Chapter 3 Exercise and Physical Activity
Chapter 4 Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Metabolic Diseases
Part II Disease-Specific Prevention
Chapter 5 Atherosclerosis and Other Occlusive Vascular Diseases
Chapter 6 Overweight and Obesity
Chapter 7 Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome
Chapter 8 Hypertension
Chapter 9 Prevention and Management of Dyslipidemia with Lifestyle: Diet, Exercise, and Weight Loss
Part III
Chapter 10 Changing Health Behaviors
Chapter 11 The Optimal Program for Prevention of Chronic Disease
Appendix General Guidelines for Resistance Exercise Training
