Physical Activity and Exercise: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Edited by Panagiota (Nota) Klentrou

ISBN: 978-960-9549-62-2, 200 pages

First published in 2012 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 50€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

1.	Physical Activity and Exercise: Health Promotion and Disease: An Introduction Panagiota (Nota) Klentrou	1
Part I: Health Promotion and Diesease Prevention
2.	A Profile of Women Aged between 25 and 65 Years, Consisting of their Status in Relation to Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity, Smoking, and Knowledge and Perceptions of Cardiovascular Disease Ceinwen Beverley Sawyer	5
3.	Effect of Physical Activity on Emotions and Mood States of 50-65 Year Old Male and Female Participants Maria Konstantaki and Dorothy Thomas	15
4.	Environmental Sustainability: An Ethical Response to Teaching Sustainable Health and Wellness Srijana M. Bajracharya	23
5.	Environment Based Activity Adviser Yuzhong Lin, Bauke de Vries and Harry Timmermans	35
6.	Lose to Win: A School Employee Health Promotion Program Roberta Faust, Christine Karshin, Anna Michalakis, Jeffrey Schulz, Lydia Kret, Enos Massie and Ronald Gibbs Jr.	45
Part II: Physical Activity, Fitness and Health during Chilhood and Adolescence
7.	The Effects of Physical Education on Aerobic Capacity and Body Composition of Sixth Grade Pupils Andy Mooneyhan and Lance G. Bryant	61
8.	FITNESSGRAM® Health-Related Physical Fitness in South African Children James R. Morrow Jr., Megan C. Self and Chris Erasmus	67
9.	Adolescent Obesity: Examining Students' Attitudes and Values toward Physical Activity Emilio Landolfi	77
10.	Internet Addiction and Chinese Adolescent Health Yi Lin Liu and Bill Altermatt	89
Part III: Physical Activity and Fitness in College and University
11.	Effect of a 15-week Pilates Course on Fitness Components in University Students Kristine Noel Clark and Christopher Tad Clark	99
12.	The Gender Difference in Health Promotion among College Students Elizabeth S. Chong, Lorena Jung and Howard Lasus	107
13.	A Proposed College Undergraduate Strength and Conditioning Program Harry Theodorides	117
14.	Secretory Immunity and Frequecy of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Relation to Salivary Cortisol and Physical Activity in University Students Panagiota Klentrou, Andreas D. Flouris, Jeffrey R. Aird and Thomas Cieslak	129
Part IV: Exercise and Nutrition
15.	Dietary Fiber Intake And Breast Cancer Risk Among the Romanian Females – Case-Control Study Bogdana Nasui, Daniela Curseu, Nina Ciuciuc, Monica Popa and Carmen Ionut	139
16.	Effect of two Types of Vitamin C Supplementation on Exercise-induced Lipid Peroxidation and Muscle Damage Babak Nakhostin-Roohi, Farhad Rahmani-Nia, Parvin Babaei and Shahb Bohlooli	147
Part V: Exercise and Sport Bioscience
17.	Close Relationship between Bone Strength and Mass in Jumping Exercised Rats Foong-Kiew Ooi, Rabindarjeet Singh, Harbindar Jeet Singh and Yoshihisa Umemura	157
18.	Changes in Force at the Front and Rear Blocks during the Sprint Start Stephen Cousins	169
19.	The Effect of Foot Placement on Height of Vertical Jump Azadeh Doroodgar, Khalil Khayambashi and Vahid Zolaktaf	179