Physical Activity and Health. This item is unavailable.Physical Activity and Health

This work is aimed as a course text for a wide range of subjects including: kinesiology, exercise science, physical education, public health, health promotion, preventive medicine and human biology programmes. This is the first textbook to integrate research findings into the implications of physical activity levels on health. It presents readers with a conceptual framework at the beginning of each chapter, facilitating comprehension and retention; while key concepts and study questions will assist them in reviewing the material at the end of the chapter. It contains close to 300 illustrations, charts, graphs, tables and photos for ease of learning.

Claude Bouchard, PhD, is executive director of Pennington Biomedical Research Centre and has four decades of research experience in physical activity, physiology, metabolism and indicators of health taking into account the genetic uniqueness of individuals. Steven Blair, is President and CEO of The Cooper Institute in Dallas and has nearly 40 years of research experience and public health work in the area of physical activity and health. He is co-author of Active Living Every Day and Fitness After 50, also published by Human Kinetics. William Haskell, PhD, is a professor of medicine and has 40 years as investigator of the effects of physical activity and health to draw upon.