Fitness and Health: A Practical Guide to Nutrition, Exercise and Avoiding Disease

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In Fitness and In Health A Practical Guide to Healthy Diet and Nutrition, Exercise, Injury Prevention and Avoiding Disease Fifth ...

Table of Contents Defining Fitness and Health. Unlimited Physical and Mental Energy. Assessing Function and Preventin ...

“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.” — ...

Introduction With this new edition of “In Fitness and In Health,” it’s more obvious than ever that we have entered a new era in ...

phies important in understanding how to achieve a balance of health and fitness, and optimal human performance. Since your healt ...

You’ll want to read this book from beginning to end, then contin- uously refer to it. Each time you read from it you’ll understa ...

1. Defining Fitness and Health. It was the summer of 1976, and I wanted to watch the Olympic sprinters in Montreal. I was in a h ...

Within the next couple of miles, however, I began to shiver. Despite drinking plenty of water, I felt dehydrated. And I was crav ...

healthier had they stayed couch potatoes! On the other hand, I saw many sedentary people who attempted to get healthy without an ...

from foods rather than synthetic vitamin supplements, and control- ling stress. These and other specifics are discussed througho ...

2. Unlimited Physical and Mental Energy. The human body must produce large amounts of energy for all physical and mental activit ...

In the second step, the blood ultimately carries these elements to the cells, where the molecules of glucose, fatty acids and am ...

one from students and executives to children and adults at all ages. To avoid fatigue and instead access unlimited energy from y ...

3. Assessing Function and Preventing Disease We’ve now seen how balancing your health and fitness can lead to greater human perf ...

products made to medicate and mask these minor illnesses. But cov- ering the problem does not make it go away, and worse yet, it ...

One way to know if you have a functional illness is through self- assessment. When we start listening to ourselves we will begin ...

expressed by signs and symptoms, of something in the body that has gone wrong. Heart disease, for example, begins many years or ...

ultimately the heart, lungs, brain, muscles and the rest of the body. In doing so, your health is regulated by what would seem t ...

code no longer occur. At this point, the information in the genes no longer changes. From that point on it’s the diet that contr ...