The exercise health connection

 Content: Physical Activity, Health, and the Human Body --
 Physical Activity Components and Health --
 Health and fitness defined --
 Components of health-related fitness --
 Exercise guidelines for improving health --
 How the Body Adapts to Exercise --
 Effects of exercise on the body --
 Influence of genetics on aerobic fitness --
 Influence of gender on aerobic fitness --
 Influence of age on aerobic fitness --
 Detraining --
 Physical Activity, Disease, and Disability --
 Coronary Heart Disease --
 What gives me the greatest risk of developing coronary heart disease? --
 How does exercise prevent coronary heart disease? --
 How much exercise is necessary to lower my risk of heart disease? --
 If I have atherosclerosis, will exercise cure it? --
 If I have coronary heart disease, will exercise cure it? --
 Is there a risk of dying of a heart attack during exercise? --
 Cancer --
 Can I avoid getting cancer if I exercise every day? Is exercise more effective at preventing some cancers than others? --
 You've said that regular exercise lowers the risk of getting colon, prostate, breast, and female reproductive cancers. How? --
 Can exercise help treat cancer once it is formed? --
 Stroke --
 If I exercise, am I less likely to have a stroke than if I don't exercise? --
 If physical inactivity isn't a primary risk factor for stroke, why do you say exercise can help prevent strokes? --
 If I exercise more intensely, does the risk of stroke go down more? --
 Are the benefits of exercise in reducing stroke risk the same for women as for men? --
 Disabetes.