Staying healthy from 1 to 100 diet and exercise current medical knowledge on how to keep healthy /

The largest interventional and monitoring studies to date worldwide give us an excellent overview of our current state of knowledge on the physiological interactions between nutrition and exercise. This wealth of evidence covers aspects like body weight, metabolism, fatty tissue, hormones, the cardi...

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Main Author: Mathias, Dietger,
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berlin : Springer, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 121 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Pivotal long-term
  • The human body
  • a giant chemical factory
  • Our food
  • an energy transfer medium
  • Energy production
  • Energy production when food is scarce
  • Energy expenditure I
  • basal metabolic rate
  • Energy expenditure II
  • heat production
  • Energy expenditure III
  • active metabolic rate
  • Physical activity level
  • Control of energy metabolism in the brain
  • Control of energy metabolism by endogenous hormones
  • Control of energy metabolism
  • the reward system.