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Understanding Fitness: How Exercise Fuels Health and Fights Disease

Understanding Fitness: How Exercise Fuels Health and Fights Disease

Hardcover

Series: Praeger Contemporary Health and Living

General Fitness

ISBN10: 0275994945
ISBN13: 9780275994945
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.51
Language: English
We've all heard the mantra, exercise for good health. In fact, exercise, or lack of it, may be the most important factor in avoiding, or surviving and recovering from, the top three killers across developed countries--heart disease, cancer, and stroke. But few of us understand exactly how different forms of exercise work--physiologically speaking--to keep us healthy and prevent or treat disease. Here, two nationally known exercise experts lead a stellar team explaining, in reader-friendly terms, what exercise does to our bodies and how it spurs beneficial biological actions.

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