Diet, Exercise,
and
Chronic Disease

The idea of producing a book on the prevention of chronic diseases through exercise
and diet was intriguing for me when I was first approached with the idea. I had
been teaching nutrition, exercise, and health science courses with a focus on cellular
aspects of prevention for many years and had to develop all of my own materials
because very few books were available. And of those that were, they had a decided
clinical approach with very little discussion about the actual biochemistry or
molecular mechanisms involved in prevention. When I broached the concept with
several potential coauthors, the prevailing opinion was that books that covered
biochemical and molecular aspects of disease etiology also were in very short supply.
Thus this book was born: an attempt to collate the latest cellular- and molecularbased research on the etiology of chronic diseases with how these mechanisms of
cause are modified by various aspects of diet and exercise. Essentially, we have tried
to produce a text that translates molecular-based data on etiology and prevention into
a clinical prescription for the prevention of chronic disease.