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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue: Sam and the Coyote | |
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| Trouble in Paradise | |
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| Hunter-Gatherers Lost in Cyberspace | |
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| Out of Africa | |
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| Homo sapiens sapiens | |
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| The Shangri-la Villagers | |
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| Old-Fashioned Americans | |
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| The Twentieth Century: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | |
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| Optional Premature Death in America | |
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| High-Risk Sports | |
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| The Birth of the Blues | |
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| The Dark Side of Americanization | |
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| The Silicon Zoo | |
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| Choices | |
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| Part-time Contemporary Primitives | |
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| How Many of Us Exercise? | |
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| Who Are the Exercisers? | |
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| Why Do We Do It? | |
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| The Research Groups | |
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| Personal Challenge and Self-Image | |
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| Health and Fitness | |
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| Weight Control | |
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| Mood Improvement | |
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| Centering | |
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| Afterglow | |
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| Experience and Mood | |
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| Gender, Exercise, and Mood | |
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| Social Motives | |
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| Competition | |
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| Addictions | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Some Basic Concepts | |
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| Anaerobic and Aerobic Energy Production | |
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| Aerobic Training and Cardiorespiratory Fitness | |
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| The 1998 ACSM Fitness Report | |
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| Monitoring Training Intensity | |
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| Resistance Training | |
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| Heartbeats in the Bank | |
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| Exercise and Mental Health | |
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| Moods and Self-Esteem | |
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| Just What Are Moods? | |
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| The Ways of Scientists | |
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| The Early Studies | |
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| Some Quasi-Experiments | |
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| True Experiments | |
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| The Experimental Evidence: Conclusions | |
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| Epidemiological Evidence | |
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| Too Much of a Good Thing | |
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| Changing How We Feel about Ourselves | |
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| Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Normal Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Anxiety in Normal Populations | |
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| How Do We Measure Anxiety? | |
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| Reviews of Research on Exercise and Anxiety | |
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| Exercise to Reduce State Anxiety: What Kind? | |
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| How Hard? | |
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| Duration? | |
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| Durability of Effects | |
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| Trait Anxiety | |
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| The Mechanisms: Psychological Theories | |
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| Physiological Mechanisms | |
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| Neurotransmitter Mechanisms | |
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| Subsyndromal Anxiety: Mechanisms and Treatment | |
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| Exercise Treatment of Anxiety Disorders | |
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| Panic Disorder | |
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| Phobic Disorders | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Another View of Anxiety | |
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| Depression and Mood Disorders | |
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| Criteria for a Major Depressive Episode | |
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| Criteria for Dysthymic Disorder | |
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| Meta-Analyses: Exercise Treatment and Depression | |
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| Epidemiological Investigations | |
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| Exercise and Subsyndromal Depression: Experimental Studies | |
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| Anaerobic versus Aerobic Exercise | |
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| Exercise Treatment with Hospitalized Patients | |
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| Exercise versus Zoloft | |
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| Walking and Talking with Patients | |
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| When Is Exercise Treatment Appropriate? | |
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| Hypothesized Mechanisms: Psychological Theories | |
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| Biochemical Theories | |
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| The Biochemical Effects of Exercise | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Substance Use and Other Mental Disorders | |
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| Substance-Use Disorders | |
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| Substance Dependence | |
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| Substance Abuse | |
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| Bipolar Disorder | |
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| Other Mental Disorders | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Exercise and Physical Health | |
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| The Wellness Umbrella | |
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| A Matter of Life and Death | |
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| Exercise and Longevity | |
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| Physical Activity and Strokes | |
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| Exercise and Disability | |
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| The Mechanisms | |
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| Coronary Arteries and Aerobic Training | |
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| Increased Cooling Capacity | |
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| Changes in Blood Chemistry | |
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| Exercise and Cancer | |
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| Breast Cancer | |
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| Colon Cancer | |
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| Other Forms of Cancer | |
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| Exercise and Diabetes | |
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| Exercise and Osteoarthritis | |
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| Exercise and Osteoporosis | |
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| Exercise and Immune Function | |
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| Back to the Surgery Ward | |
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| An Exercise Formula for Weight Loss | |
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| How Do We Know If We're Overweight? | |
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| Just How Dangerous Are Those Extra Pounds? | |
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| Life Just Isn't Fair | |
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| Diets, Exercise, and Metabolic Rates | |
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| The Solutions | |
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| Fit and Fat | |
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| The Fat-Burning Mantra | |
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| Converting Our Muscles into Fat Burners | |
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| How Do We Decide What to Eat? | |
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| Some Thoughts on Weight-Loss Strategies | |
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| The Risks | |
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| Exercise and Sudden Death | |
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| Age and Atherosclerosis | |
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| Catch-22 | |
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| Injuries | |
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| Exercise Abuse and Dependency | |
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| Confessions of a Born-Again Runner | |
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| The Art of Embracing Sweat | |
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| How Can I Make Myself Do It? | |
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| Realistic Goals | |
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| The Chunky Masses Are Not Our Friends | |
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| Television and Video Games Are Not Our Friends | |
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| A Personal Odyssey | |
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| Too Many Responsibilities, Too Little Time | |
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| Getting Our Priorities Straight | |
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| The Power of Knowledge | |
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| Doing It | |
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| Who We Are and What We Need | |
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| Avoiding Problems | |
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| Stretching, Warm-Up, and Cool-Down | |
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| Injuries | |
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| A Walking Program | |
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| Epilogue: A Bridge over Troubled Waters | |
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| Using Exercise to Cope with Stress | |
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| The Truth Cookies | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |