The exercise professional's guide to optimizing health : strategies for preventing and reducing chronic disease /: strategies for preventing and reducing chronic disease. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey L. Roitman, EdD, FACSM, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Exercise and Sports Science, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO., Tom LaFontaine, PhD, ACSM RCEP, NSCA-CPT, FACSM, FAACVPR, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, PREVENT Consulting Services, LLC Optimus: The Center for Health, Columbia, MO.
• Authors: Roitman, Jeffrey L; LaFontaine, Thomas P, 1946-
• Contents: Introduction to the epidemiology of chronic disease and risk factor theory -- Pathophysiology of chronic vascular disease -- Exercise and physical activity -- Nutrition and the prevention of chronic metabolic diseases -- Atherosclerosis and other occlusive vascular diseases -- Overweight and obesity -- Type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome -- Hypertension -- Prevention and management of dyslipidemia with lifestyle: diet, exercise, and weight loss -- Changing health behaviors -- The optimal program for prevention of chronic disease.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : LWW
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 616/.044; Chronic diseases; Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects; Chronic diseases -- Prevention; Physical fitness; Diet therapy; Diet, Reducing; Exercise; Chronic Disease; Chronic Disease -- prevention & control; Exercise; Diet, Reducing; Physical Fitness
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781451123845; 1451123841
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.