The Exercise-health Connection: Physical Activity as Powerful Medicine

by David C . Nieman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.32

  Make exercise your medicine! Dr. David Nieman tells you how in The Exercise-Health Connection. This guide presents the bottom line on what physical activity can and cannot do to prevent, reduce, or control major health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, and low back pain. There's also an entire section devoted to physical fitness and activity issues specific to children, teenagers, women, and the elderly. Highly readable yet highly referenced, The Exercise-Health Connection gives you the facts so you can use exercise to take charge of your health.