Exercise for Preventing Common Diseases

What is the role of exercise in maintaining good health and preventing metabolic disease, hypertension, cardiorespiratory disease, cancer, and obesity? What is the optimal exercise level to prevent such common diseases and conditions? These important questions were addressed and discussed by researchers, therapists, and physicians at the international symposium "Optimal Exercise for Preventing Common Diseases," held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 1998, in conjunction with the Fukuoka University Research Center. This book compiles the papers presented at the symposium, giving state-of-the-art information that will be especially valuable to exercise physiologists, physical therapists, and those working in the field of sports medicine.

Exercise and Metabolic Disease.- Molecular and Cellular Studies of the Influence of Activity on the Maintenance of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle in Relation to General Health.- Effects of Mild Exercise on Glucose Effectiveness.- Physical Fitness and Body Fat Distribution: Relation to Risk Factors for Metabolic Diseases in Obese Women.- Exercise and Obesity: What Is a Reasonable Approach?.- Exercise and Hypertension.- Association Between Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism of the Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme Gene and Blood Pressure Responses to Exercise in Normal Controls and Hypertensive Patients.- Exercise and Hypertension in Older Adults.- How Does Exercise Lower Blood Pressure?.- Exercise and Cardiorespiratory Disease.- Volume Reduction Surgery for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.- Exercise for Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease.- Exercise Training in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic or Diastolic Dysfunction: Harmful or Helpful?.- Exercise and Cancer and Immunity.- Moderate Exercise: Is It Effective for Prevention of Cancer?.- Exercise and Cancer Prevention: Study from Hospital-Based Epidemiologic Research Program at Aichi Cancer Center (HERPACC).- Physical Activity and Prevention of Lung and Breast Cancer: Data from the College Alumni Health Study.- Exercise and Health.- Age-Specific Physical Activities and Life Style Patterns as Related to All-Cause Mortality and to Longevity.- Humans as Animals: Recommended Exercise Allowances.- The Economics of Exercise.- Related Topics.- Relation Between Physical Fitness and Functional Performance in 80-Year-Old Men and Women Residing in a Community for the Elderly.- Exercise, Stress, and Immunity.- Effect of One-Legged Low-Intensity Exercise Training on Lower Limb Composition in Young Women.- Effects of Dumbbell Exercise With and Without Energy Restriction on RMR, DIT, and Body Composition in Mildly Obese Women.- Possible Relation Between Skeletal Muscle Morphology and the Lipid Profile in Healthy Japanese Men.- Effects of Multidisciplinary Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Plasma Lipid Profile.- Semisupervised Home-Based Exercise Program Using a Stepping Device with Telemedicine in Patients with Previous Myocardial Infarction.- Effects of Exercise Training on Ventilatory and Double Product Thresholds in Patients with Heart Disease.- Mean Blood Pressure Increases Above the Ventilatory Threshold.- Algorithm of Automation of Double-Product Break Point Measurement.- Relation Between External Workloads and Local Muscle Oxygenation During Ramp-Loaded Cycling.- Key Word Index.