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      Gender, Physical Activity, and Aging

      This text provides an objective, evidence-based evaluation of particular facets of the ageing process, gender differences in this process, and their modification by physical activity and lifestyle.

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      Gender, Physical Activity, and Aging

      This text provides an objective, evidence-based evaluation of particular facets of the ageing process, gender differences in this process, and their modification by physical activity and lifestyle.

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      A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today

      Roy J. Shephard

      This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise…

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      A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today

      Roy J. Shephard

      This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise…

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      An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

      Roy J. Shephard

      This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and…

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      An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

      Roy J. Shephard

      This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and…

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      Endurance Fitness

      Roy J. Shephard

      Endurance Fitness provides detailed coverage of the scientific principles on which the general theories of physical fitness are based. It treats the subject from a sound physiological and medical point…

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      Body Composition in Biological Anthropology

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto)

      This volume provides a thought-provoking perspective on the empirical and analytic study of body form and composition. The techniques used for measuring body components such as fat, water, lean tissue…

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      Body Composition in Biological Anthropology

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto)

      This volume provides a thought-provoking perspective on the empirical and analytic study of body form and composition. The techniques used for measuring body components such as fat, water, lean tissue…

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      Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract: Responses in health and disease

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract is the first book to explain the function and response to exercise of the gastro-intestinal system. Prof Shephard synthesises research to explain the physiology…

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      Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera: Responses in Health and Disease

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      This book examines the response of the visceral organs to acute and chronic physical activity, in cases of both health and disease. Consolidating previously disparate research, the book sets out…

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      Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract: Responses in health and disease

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract is the first book to explain the function and response to exercise of the gastro-intestinal system. Prof Shephard synthesises research to explain the physiology…

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      Physical Activity and the Abdominal Viscera: Responses in Health and Disease

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      This book examines the response of the visceral organs to acute and chronic physical activity. Consolidating previously disparate research, the book sets out the physiology, function during exercise, pathology of…

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      Optimizing Physical Performance During Fasting and Dietary Restriction: Implications for Athletes and Sports Medicine

      Ezdine Bouhlel,Roy J. Shephard

      This book examines the effects of sustained fasting and food restrictions on metabolism and physical performance in athletes. The broad coverage includes religious and non-religious fasting and food deprivation. This…

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      Optimizing Physical Performance During Fasting and Dietary Restriction: Implications for Athletes and Sports Medicine

      Ezdine Bouhlel,Roy J. Shephard

      This book examines the effects of sustained fasting and food restrictions on metabolism and physical performance in athletes. The broad coverage includes religious and non-religious fasting and food deprivation. This…

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      Circumpolar Health: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Yellowknife, NWT

      This volume presents in tightly edited form more than ninety papers from the third international symposium on circumpolar health, held in Yellowknife in July 1974.

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      The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation

      This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of pedometers and accelerometers.

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      The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation

      This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of pedometers and accelerometers.

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      Obesity: A Kinesiology Perspective

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      This new volume suggests that regular physical activity plays an important role in preventing the development of obesity, is a valuable adjunct therapy in the treatment of the established condition…

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      Obesity: A Kinesiology Perspective

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto, Ontario , Canada)

      This new volume suggests that regular physical activity plays an important role in preventing the development of obesity, is a valuable adjunct therapy in the treatment of the established condition…

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      The Health Consequences of ‘Modernisation’: Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto),Andris Rode (Brock University, Ontario)

      The transition from an active hunter-gatherer lifestyle to that of a ‘modern’ urbanised lifestyle brings with it many consequences for health and fitness. In this volume, this transition is examined…

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      The Health Consequences of ‘Modernisation’: Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples

      Roy J. Shephard (University of Toronto),Andris Rode (Brock University, Ontario)

      The transition from an active hunter-gatherer lifestyle to that of a ‘modern’ urbanzsed lifestyle brings with it many consequences for health and fitness. In this volume, this transition is examined…

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      Year Book of Sports Medicine 2011

      Roy J Shephard, MD, PhD, DPE, Professor

      Brings you abstracts of articles that are carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. This title includes topics such as Epidemiology, Prevention of Injuries, Lesions of Head and Neck…

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      Making of a Good Doctor

      A good doctor must pay attention to cultural and anthropological factors that influence a patient’s lifestyle and any resulting need to adjust personal lifestyle in the interests of health. This…

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      Year Book of Sports Medicine 2012

      Roy J Shephard, MD, PhD, DPE (Professor Emeritus of Applied Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Health and Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)

      Brings you abstracts of articles carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. This title includes topics such as: Epidemiology, Prevention of Injuries, Lesions of Head and Neck; Musculoskeletal Injuries…

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      Year Book of Sports Medicine 2013

      Roy J Shephard, MD, PhD, DPE (Professor Emeritus of Applied Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Health and Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)

      Brings you abstracts of articles that are carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. This title includes topics such as Epidemiology, Prevention of Injuries, Lesions of Head and Neck…

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