Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity the Metabolic Syndrome Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer

New insight into the effects of nutrition and physical activity
throughout the life cycle

Recent studies of vascular biology using molecular biology techniques
have started to reveal a previously unsuspected complexity of the
vascular responses to nutrients and physical activity, thus
explaining at the molecular level how healthy lifestyles interact
with human genes and how they affect phenotype expression, even in
the case of unfavorable genes. These findings have serious
implications especially in establishing a solid scientific background
for preventive strategies: for the advancement of healthy nutrition,
physical activity and life habits, a thorough understanding of how
drug/diet/gene interactions can act and multiply the beneficial
effects of exercise is necessary.
This first part of these conference proceedings is of great interest
to researchers, physicians, exercise physiologists, geneticists,
nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists, policy makers in
government, private industry and international organizations, and
public health workers worldwide
Preliminary Pages
I Contents / Conference Organization / Preface / Declaration /
Keynote address
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp I-VLI
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Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
1 Criteria and Classification of Obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania
Kanazawa, M. ; Yoshiike, N. ; Osaka, T. ; Numba, Y. ;
Zimmet, P. ; Inoue, S.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 1-12
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13 Exercise and Obesity in China
Chang, C.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 13-26
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27 Obesity in Childhood: The Greek Experience
Kafatos, A. ; Codrington, C. ; Linardakis, M.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 27-35
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36 Epidemiology of Physical Activity from Adolescence to Young
Adulthood
Aaron, D. ; Jekal, Y. ; LaPorte, R.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 36-41
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42 Adolescent Obesity and Physical Activity
Hwalla, N. ; Sibai, A. ; Adra, N.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 42-50
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51 Nutrition and Physical Activity of the Population in Serbia
; ; Oshaug, A.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. World Rev Nutr Diet.
Basel, Karger, 2005, vol 94, pp 51-59
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60 Physical Activity and Body Composition
Andreoli, A. ; De Lorenzo, A.
Simopoulos AP (ed): Nutrition and Fitness: Obesity, the Metabolic
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