Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition
and Human Performance. 4th edition

UNDERSTANDING EXERCISE FROM THE 19th-CENTURY TO THE PRESENT ...

Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Human Performance, fourth edition connects Exercise Physiology past, present and future in one comprehensive text of 849 pages.

Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Human Performance, fourth edition boasts a new introductory section highlighting the pioneers of exercise physiology, including 19th-century texts and early measuring devices. The fourth edition contains extensive format and content revisions which focus on exercise physiology research from the past, cutting-edge advancements in today's physical fitness research and future developments on the horizon.

Paying tribute to those people and events that helped shape the field, a new introduction and ultra-current research highlight historical milestones in the field, from the origins of exercise physiology in the 5th Century B.C., to the American physiology pioneers in the 1800's and today's FDA research of the fat-fighting drug, Dexfenfluramine. Exercise Physiology, fourth edition tracks the advancement of exercise physiology research and its impact on human fitness and well-being.

A unique "Focus on Research" feature introduces each chapter with synopses of actual clinical experiments and studies from respected scholars, tying principles of exercise physiology to "real world" applications of clinical physiology, nutrition and exercise science.

A beneficiary of the latest copy-to-press publishing technology, the entire text includes references as current as 1996 and reinforces the headline-making research from today's scientific and medical communities.

A new chapter on the clinical aspects of exercise testing and rehabilitation in cancer and cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, including updated and expanded appendices (example: Frequently Cited Journals in Exercise Physiology), round out the revised research for the edition.

The fourth edition includes the American College of Sports Medicine Position Stands on osteoporosis and exercise, physical activity, physical fitness, hypertension, and exercise and fluid replacement.

Continuing the trend first established with the popular third edition of using color graphics in all of the chapters, the fourth edition continues the tradition with approximately 200 new graphics including photo elements within the graph! This technique is new to exercise physiology texts, and was designed to augment the presentation of material.

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