Nutrition and fitness
Subtitle: cultural, genetic, and metabolic aspects
By: volume editor, Artemis P. Simopoulos.
Contributors: Simopoulos, Artemis P., 1933-
Series: World review of nutrition and dietetics -- v. 98
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basel; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783805585309
Subjects: Nutrition -- Congresses; Physical fitness -- Congresses; Nutrition Physiology -- Congresses; Physical Fitness -- Congresses; Health Promotion -- Congresses; Metabolism -- physiology -- Congresses; Nutrigenomics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Selected Proceedings of the International Congress and Exhibition on Nutrition, Fitness, and Health, Shanghai, November 30 to December 2, 2006."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Nutrition and fitness from the first Olympiad in 776 BC to the 21st century and the concept of positive health / Simopoulos, A.P.; title: Omega-3 fatty acids, exercise, physical activity, and athletics / Simopoulos, A.P.; title: Omega-6 fatty acids and excessive adipose tissue development / Ailhaud, G.; title: Non-conventional genetic risk factors for cardiovascular disease / Allayee, H.; title: ApoE genotype: impact on health, fitness, and nutrition / Angelopoulos, T.J., Lowndes, J.; title: Nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases / Tapsell, L.C., Probst, Y.C.; title: Exercise and obesity: lifestyle modification as a means in prevention and treatment / Pavlou, K.N.; title: Nutritional risk factors for gastrointestinal cancers: the Multiethnic Cohort Study / Kolonel, L.N.; title: Mediterranean food and diets, global resource for the control of metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases / Urquiaga, I. ...[et al.].; title: The role of government in nutrition and fitness / Bourne, P.G.; title: Balancing the scales: a common-sense look at global nutrition problems and what can be done about them / Clay, W.; title: Historical perspective: the antiquity of exercise, exercise physiology, and the exercise prescription for health / Tipton, C.M.