Nutrition and the Female Athlete (Hardcover, New)

Whether you exercise for fun, or in competitive situations, you should understand the important role nutrition plays in fitness. This useful new text focuses on nutrition as it specifically relates to female at hletes. It addresses topics of major importance to women in sports, co aches, trainers, sports nutritionists, and physicians. Each chapter is a "mini-course" on a particular aspect of nutrition. Subjects include the nutritional practices of female athletes; the requirements for ca rbohydrates, proteins, and fats; details on vitamins and minerals, wit h special emphasis on the nutrients of importance to female athletes; the role of water and electrolytes, including prevention of dehydratio n and guidelines for optimal fluid replacement; body weight and compos ition; factors affecting energy balance; how to achieve a healthy comp etitive weight, and an overview of eating disorders in athletes, inclu ding definitions and diagnostic criteria, prevalence, risk factors, an d effects on health and performance.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Nutrition in Exercise & Sport
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Series editors:	Ira Wolinsky
Authors:	Jamie S. Ruud
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8493-7917-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Sports injuries & medicine Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > Biomechanics, human kinetics Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Dietetics & nutrition Promotions
LSN:	0-8493-7917-2
Barcode:	9780849379178

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