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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |