1st Edition
Physical Activity and the Gastro-Intestinal Tract Responses in health and disease
Preface
1. The classification of physical activity
2. Physical activity and the oesophagus: oesophageal motility and issues of gastro-oesophageal reflux
3. Optimizing gastro-duodenal function during physical activity
4. Physical activity and peptic ulcers
5. Physical activity and and the risk of gastro- oesophageal cancers
6. Physical activity and large bowel function: constipation, diarrhoea, and rectal bleeding
7. Physical activity, chronic intestinal inflammation and coeliac disease
8. Physical activity and colo-rectal adenomas
9. Physical activity and the risk of colo-rectal carcinomas
10. Exercise-related transient abdominal pain (ETAP)
Biography
Roy J. Shephard is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physiology in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He was Director of the School of Physical and Health Education (now the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education) at the University of Toronto for 12 years (1979-1991), and he served as Director of the University of Toronto Graduate Programme in Exercise Sciences from 1964 to 1985.
