Course
Description
Nutrition
(Energy Consumption) and Physical Activity's (Energy Expenditure)
Relationship to Body Weight Regulation
- Part
1 - Nutrition, metabolism, and energy transfer (topics
include nutrients in food, optimal nutrition for exercise and
sport, energy utilization during exercise, and the bioenergetics
of food and physical activity.)
- Part
2
- Techniques for evaluation of human body composition (topics
include assessment of body fat and lean body mass, obesity, weight
control, modification of eating and exercise behaviors, diet practices:
starvation, fad diets, optimal food intake, and psycho-social
aspects of weight control: cultural and gender differences).
- Part
3 - Physiologic considerations in total fitness (topics
include strength. anaerobic and aerobic power, aging, exercise
and health).
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