The organs of the gastro-intestinal tract play an essential role in sustained physical activity, but their consideration in exercise-related literature has, to this point, been limited. Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract is the first book to explain the function and response to exercise of the gastro-intestinal system, in cases of both health and disease, and helps to shed light on the role they play in acute and chronic exercise.
Professor Roy Shephard synthesises previously disparate research to explain the physiology, function, pathology of disease...
The organs of the gastro-intestinal tract play an essential role in sustained physical activity, but their consideration in exercise-related litera...
Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera is the first book to examine the response of the visceral organs to acute and chronic physical activity, in cases of both health and disease. Bringing together a previously disparate body of research, Professor Roy Shephard sets out the physiology, function during exercise, pathology of disease, and role of physical activity in preventing and managing disease in the visceral organs.
Working systematically through the viscera, the book firstly identifies the response to exercise and pathologies of the liver, gall bladder...
Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera is the first book to examine the response of the visceral organs to acute and chronic physical...
This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind.
This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy mak...
