Summary

Sport is a human activity which has existed on a large scale since the end of 19th century. The spread of sport has improved quality of life and health, but at the same time has developed a new, previously unknown, cohort of diseases. These disease can be linked to heavy training (e.g. renal failure for kidney overload due to lactate removal); to vascular problems due to catabolites accumulation; to rapid weight gain after sport termination in heavy training athletes and other dysmetabolic disorders (e.g., obesity induced by sport diet); to intoxication of the nervous system due to catabolites accumulation (for example in the optic nerve); to sport induced anorexia nervosa, and intoxication from rhabdomyolysis.

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Editor
Antonio Cicchella

Institution: Department for Quality of Life Studies, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Interests: biomechanics and bioenergetics of human movement and sport; children; exercise; obesity; motor learning

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