biomedical
EditorQing LiSociety of Forest Medicine in Japan
Nippon Medical School
Tokyo, JapanTo place an order, send an email to: Billing.Central@NovaPublishers.com withthe code: Leaflets20 in the subject or fill out the form below:
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62618-462-6 (328 pages)

RetailSpecial 20% off$79$63.20

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62100-000-6 (334 pages)

$165

$132

E-book ISBN: 978-1-61470-982-4$79$63.20

Name: ___________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Softcover or Hardcover or E-book (circle one)
Number of copies: ______
Send Proforma Invoice:

Pay by check:

Credit Card Number: _______________________________
Expiration Date: (Mo) ________ (Yr) ________
Authorized Signature: ______________________________
400 Oser Avenue, Suite 1600, Hauppauge, NY 11788-3619, USAPhone (631) 231-7269 Fax (631) 231-8175
Email: nova.main@novapublishers.com www.novapublishers.com

Book Description:

Table of Contents:

Imagine a new medical science that could let you know how

Prefaceto be more active, more relaxed and healthier with reduced

List of Contributors

stress and reduced risk of lifestyle-related disease and cancer

Section 1. Introduction

by visiting forests. This new medical science is called forest

Chapter 1. What is Forest Medicine?
(Qing Li)

medicine. Forest medicine encompasses the effects of forest
environments on human health and is a new interdisciplinary

Section 2. Evaluations of the Forest Environment

science, belonging to the categories of alternative medicine,

Chapter 2. Physical Factors in the Forest Environment(Takahide Kagawa and Norimasa Takayama)

environmental medicine and preventive medicine. This bookpresents up-to-date findings in forest medicine to show thebeneficial effects of forest environments on human health.

Chapter 3. Phytoncides in Forest Atmosphere(Tatsuro Ohira and Naoyuki Matsui)
Chapter 4. Psychological Evaluations of Forest Environment and the Physical Variables(Bum-Jin Park, Katsunori Furuya, Tamami Kasetani, Norimasa Takayama, Takahide
Kagawa and Yoshifumi Miyazaki)
Section 3. Effects of the Forest Environment on Human Health
Chapter 5. Effect of the Forest Environment on Physiological Relaxation Using the Resultsof Field Tests at 35 Sites throughout Japan(Bum-Jin Park, Yuko Tsunetsugu, Juyoung Lee, Takahide Kagawa and Yoshifumi Miyazaki)

biomedical

Chapter 6. Effect of Forest Environments on Human Immune Function(Qing Li and Tomoyuki Kawada)
Chapter 7. Effect of Forest Environments on the Human Endocrine System(Qing Li, Maiko Kobayashi and Tomoyuki Kawada)20% off
Code: Leaflets20

Softcover: 978-1-62618-462-6 (328 pages)
Hardcover: 978-1-62100-000-6 (334 pages)
E-book: 978-1-61470-982-4

Chapter 8. Effect of Forest Bathing on Sleep and Physical Activity(Tomoyuki Kawada, Qing Li, Ari Nakadai, Hirofumi Inagaki, Masao Katsumata, Takako
Shimizu, Yukiyo Hirata, Kimiko Hirata and Hiroko Suzuki)
Chapter 9. Effect of the Forest Environment on Blood Glucose(Yoshinori Ohtsuka)
Chapter 10. Effects of Forest Environments on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Parameters(Qing Li, Toshiaki Otsuka, Maiko Kobayashi, Yoko Wakayama, Hirofumi Inagaki, Masao
Katsumata, Yukiyo Hirata, Yingji Li, Kimiko Hirata, Takako Shimizu, Hiroko Suzuki,Tomoyuki Kawada and Takahide Kagawa)For the full table of contents please visit our website atnovapublishers.com and enter the ISBN in the search.