NUTRITION
AND FITNESS (PART 2):
MENTAL HEALTH, AGING, AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A HEALTHY DIET AND
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LIFESTYLE
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Editors:
Artemis P. Simopoulos
Bibliographic Data: ISBN: 3-8055-7945-4, S. Karger AG, 2005, 182
pages, $207.25 (hardcover).
Subjects: Nutrition and physical activity in mental health, schizophrenia,
aging, osteoporosis and healthy life, and the role of government on nutrition
and fitness.
Reviewed by: Hakan Gür, MD, PhD, Uludag University Medical School,
Bursa, Turkey.
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Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2005) 4, 619
| DESCRIPTION |
The
proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Nutrition and
Fitness held in Athens, Greece, on June 91-2, 2004 are presented in
the book as a second volume of the series. The objectives of the book
are to review/discuss the latest information on nutrition and fitness
by taking into consideration i) mental health, ii) psychiatric disorders,
iii) menopause, iv) osteoporosis, v) aging and vi) healthy diet.
The book also discusses the role of government in implementing a healthy
diet and physical activity lifestyle.
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| FEATURES |
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A
common, uniform strategy and evidence-based approach to organizing
and interpreting the literature is used in all chapters. This textbook
is composed of four parts with sub-sections in all of them. The
topics of the parts are: i) Mental Health, ii) Aging, Osteoporosis
and Physical Activity, iii) Defining the Components of a Healthy
Diet and Physical Activity for Health and iv) The Role of Government
in Implementing a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Lifestyle.
In each specific chapter, an epidemiological picture has been systematically
developed from the data available in prospective, retrospective,
case-control, and cross-sectional studies. The tables and figures
are numerous, helpful and very useful.
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| AUDIENCE |
The
book provides a very useful resource for researchers, psychiatrists,
nutritionists, exercise physiologists, geneticists, dietitians, food
scientists, policy makers in government, private food industry and
healthcare professionals in the fields of social and preventive medicine,
geriatrics, public health, sports medicine. The readers are going
to discover that this is an excellent reference book.
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| ASSESSMENT |
This
book is almost a compulsory reading for anyone interested in nutrition,
metabolism, social and preventive medicine, clinical nutrition, diabetics,
genetics, obesity, public health, aging and osteoporosis, psychiatric
disorders and sports medicine and for those wishing to run comprehensive
research in this and relevant areas. The fact that the contributors
are leading international researchers in this field makes this book
more welcome.
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