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Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport
This textbook provides the reader with thorough coverage of the role nutrition plays in enhancing one's health, fitness and sport performance. Current research and practical activities are incorporated throughout. A dynamic new website features an online, password protected instructor's manual and an interactive student workbook, which will include content updates. The book provides the latest nutritional guidelines, including American Heart Association Guidelines and the latest RDA/DRI values throughout the text. New illustrations in support of new concepts (eg. lipids, physical activity pyramid, and model of nutrient intake) are found throughout the text.
Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport
This textbook provides the reader with thorough coverage of the role nutrition plays in enhancing one's health, fitness and sport performance. Modern research and practical activities are incorporated throughout.
Creatine
A comprehensive, scientific look at creatine--the supplement of choice for today's serious athletes and fitness enthusiasts--what it is, how it works, how to use it, and what it can do for an athlete. 19 photos.
Nutrition for Fitness and Sport
Abstract: A comprehensive, authoritative textbook is designed to provide nutritional information to physically active individuals and to those desiring to initiate a personal exercise program. Topics include basic nutrition principles; the role of carbohydrates fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water in physical performance; energy aspects of exercise; determining body composition; weight gain and loss programs involving diet and exercise; guidelines for exercise programs; special concerns of exercising in the heat; the effects of special dietary practices (vegetarianism, alcohol, caffeine) on physical performance; consumer awareness for physically-active people; and special dietary considerations relative to physical performance. A question-answer format is used throughout the text, and many data tables are included. Nutritional standards, dietary data, and related information are contained in 12 appendices. (wz).
Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising
Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Gary Peller; Cedric J. Robinson; Jerry Watts; Cornel West; Patricia Williams; Rhonda M. Williams; Howard Winant.
Nutrition in Sport
As sports have become more competitive over recent years researchers and trainers have been searching for new and innovative ways of improving performance. Ironically, an area as mundane as what an athlete eats can have profound effects on fitness, health and ultimately, performance in competition. Sports have also gained widespread acceptance in the therapeutic management of athletes with disorders associated with nutritional status. In addition, exercise has been one of the tools used for studying the control of metabolism, creating a wealth of scientific information that needs to be placed in the context of sports medicine and science. Nutrition in Sport provides an exhaustive review of t...
The Young Athlete
This essential new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a thorough overview of the unique physiologic characteristics, responsiveness to training, and possible health hazards involved in the training, coaching, and medical care of young athletes. Intense involvement in competitive sports often begins during childhood. During adolescence, many athletes reach their peak performance and some may participate in World Championships and Olympic Games at a relatively young age. The Young Athlete presents the available information relevant to exercise and training in youth, reviewed and summarized by auth...
Anabolic Steroids in Sport and Exercise
This text presents research findings on the use and abuse of steroids in sports and exercise, and information on steroid use within professional sports and among Olympic athletes. In addition, information on drug use among international student athletes, adolescents and body builders is explored.
