The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan investigates the growing and ever-changing health issues for girls and women who lead an active lifestyle and participate in sports and exercise. Easy to read, the volume provides an educational foundation for understanding how disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis can be interrelated while also looking at image disorders and reproductive health. Written by world leaders in the field, chapters detail effective nutrition and safe exercise techniques while also discussing female psychological and physiological characteristics.…mehr
The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan investigates the growing and ever-changing health issues for girls and women who lead an active lifestyle and participate in sports and exercise. Easy to read, the volume provides an educational foundation for understanding how disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis can be interrelated while also looking at image disorders and reproductive health. Written by world leaders in the field, chapters detail effective nutrition and safe exercise techniques while also discussing female psychological and physiological characteristics. Informative and comprehensive, The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout the Lifespan is an essential, practical reference for the educated professional who seeks a basic understanding of some of the more common issues active females confront.
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Autorenporträt
Jacalyn J. McComb, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA / Reid Norman, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA / James Slauterbeck, University of Vermont Medical School, Burlington, VT, USA
Inhaltsangabe
"Table of Contents
Part I- Focusing on Active Female's Health Issues: Unique Gender Related Psychological and Physiological Characteristics of Females
Chapter 1: Body Image Concerns Throughout the Lifespan Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM
Chapter 2: Reproductive Changes in the Female Lifespan Reid Norman, PhD
Chapter 3: Considerations of Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Anatomy Phillip S. Sizer, PT, PhD and C. Roger James, PhD, FACSM
Part II - Preoccupation with Body Image Issues and Disordered Eating Issues in the Active Female
Chapter 4: Body Image and Eating Disturbances in Children and Adolescents Marilyn Massey-Stokes, EdD, CHES
Chapter 5: The Female Athletic Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM
Chapter 6: Disordered Eating in Active Middle Aged Women Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM
Chapter 7: Eating Disorder and Menstrual Dysfunction Screening Tools for the Allied Health Professional Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM
Chapter 8: Education and Intervention Programs for Disordered Eating in the Active Female Jacalyn J. Robert McComb, PhD, FACSM
Part III- Reproductive Health Chapter 9: The Human Menstrual Cycle Reid Norman, PhD
