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Nutrition and fitness: Obesity, the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and cancerEdited by A P Simopoulos
World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics Series No. 94
Recent studies of vascular biology using molecular biology techniques have started to reveal a previously unsuspected complexity of the vascular responses to nutrients and physical activity, thus explaining at the molecular level how healthy lifestyles interact with human genes and how they affect phenotype expression, even in the case of unfavorable genes. These findings have serious implications especially in establishing a solid scientific background for preventive strategies: for the advancement of healthy nutrition, physical activity and life habits, a thorough understanding of how drug/diet/gene interactions can act and multiply the beneficial effects of exercise is necessary.
This first part of these conference proceedings is of great interest to researchers, physicians, exercise physiologists, geneticists, nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists, policy makers in government, private industry and international organizations, and public health workers worldwide.
ISBN 3 8055 7944 6
ISBN-13: 978 3 8055 7944 5
June 2005
196 pages 234 x 156mm hardback
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Contents
Criteria and classification of obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania; Exercise and obesity in China; Obesity in childhood: The Greek experience; Epidemiology of physical activity from adolescence to young adulthood; Adolescent obesity and physical activity; Nutrition and physical activity of the population in Serbia; Physical activity and body composition; Syndrome X: clinical aspects; Metabolic syndrome: Is there a pathophysiological common denominator? Lifestyle-gene-drug interactions in relation to the metabolic syndrome; Coronary heart disease, genetics, nutrition and physical activity; Role of nutrients and physical activity in gene expression; Physical activity and hypertension: An overview; Omega–3 fatty acids and ventricular arrhythmias; A method for the direct evaluation of the fatty acid status in a drop of blood from a fingertip in humans; Measurement error in the assessment of interaction between dietary and genetic factors in cohort studies of cancer; Cancer frequency in poor rural communities consuming a very limited diet; Omega–6/omega–3 polyunsaturated fatty acids ratio and breast cancer; Fish, w–3 polyunsaturated fat intake and cancer at selected sites; Cancer risk reduction by physical exercise.