Staying Healthy From 1 to 100 Diet and exercise current medical knowledge on how to keep healthy /

• Main Author: Mathias, Dietger (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Sports medicine.; Medical research.; Health counseling.; Health.; Quality of life.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Sports Medicine.; Quality of Life Research.; Patient Guide.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

The largest interventional and monitoring studies to date worldwide give us an excellent overview of our current state of knowledge on the physiological interactions between nutrition and exercise. This wealth of evidence covers aspects like body weight, metabolism, fatty tissue, hormones, the cardi...

Table of Contents:

• Pivotal long-term
• The human body – a giant chemical factory
• Our food – an energy transfer medium
• Energy production
• Energy production when food is scarce
• Energy expenditure I – basal metabolic rate
• Energy expenditure II – heat production
• Energy expenditure III – active metabolic rate
• Physical activity level
• Control of energy metabolism in the brain
• Control of energy metabolism by endogenous hormones
• Control of energy metabolism – the reward system.