Muscles, Exercise, and Obesity
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Sports Medicine and Sports Traumatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 13981
Special Issue Editor
Interests: football training; injury prevention; physiology; physical and sports activities as a strategy to promote a healthy society; physical activity interventions; exercise training physical exercise; physical health; assessment of physical capacity; global health; health; quality of life in groups of subjects and active lifestyle; osteoporosis; fall prevention; body composition
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Dear Colleagues,
Obesity is an illness characterized by excess of body fat. The large amount of fat can cause many health problems, like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, decrease in life expectancy, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and stroke. The increase in obesity has become a major health issue worldwide affecting all groups in the population, from children to older adults.
Physical exercise involves energy expenditure, and the number of burned calories depend on the intensity, volume and type of exercise performance; thus, exercising is an alternative to reduce body fat mass. The skeletal muscle is a metabolically active tissue that involves energy expenditure, so another treatment against obesity can be the increase in total body muscle mass. Conversely, the loss of muscle mass has been associated with physical disability, which can decrease physical exercise, increase sedentary behavior, decrease energy expenditure, and increase obesity and the consequent health problems.
Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight the role of exercise and muscle mass against obesity.
Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adipose
- body composition
- body mass index
- exercise training
- lifestyle
- overweight
- physical activity physical fitness
- skeletal muscle
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