Author: Jamie S. Ruud
Publisher: CRC-Pre
Keywords: nutrition, sport, exercise, athlete, female
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-10-05
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0849379172
ISBN-13: 9780849379178
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 athletes. It addresses topics of major importance to women in sports, coaches, 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 carbohydrates, proteins, and fats; details on vitamins and minerals, with special emphasis on the nutrients of i
Author: Joseph A. Molnar MD PhD FACS
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: nutrition, science, modern, healing, wound
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-10-25
List price: $144.95
ISBN-10: 0849317312
ISBN-13: 9780849317316
With mounting evidence regarding the role of poor nutrition in the development of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, it is no secret that appropriate nutrition is crucial to optimal health. Achieving the correct balance of elements provides the body with the ability to adapt to a shifting and often hazardous environment. Never is this capability more important than when a wound is sustained and the body’s first line of defense, the skin, is breached.Nutrition and Wound Healing describes the importance of several nutrients, both macronutrients and micronutrients, and the
Authors:Helen W. Lane, Dale A. Schoeller,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: nutrition, modern, models, weightlessness, spaceflight
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-12-20
List price: $134.95
ISBN-10: 0849385679
ISBN-13: 9780849385674
Tens of thousands of miles above Earth’s atmosphere, orbiting this planet like pieces from a child’s giant erector set, NASA’s massive International Space Station slowly takes shape. When completed, as many as 16 countries will provide crew members for this orbiting international community.But while this will not be the first extended stay of humans in space-Skylab, Mir Space Station, and Shuttle-Mir missions all involved extended-stay periods-it will give birth to some new questions about one of space exploration’s biggest concerns: providing adequate nutrition essenti
Author: Jasmuhee
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: nutrition, light, series, living, divine, millennium, nourishment, new, pranic
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-08-27
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 1847534074
ISBN-13: 9781847534071
"Pranic Nourishment, also called Living on Light, is Jasmuheen’s fourth book of metaphysical interest. It is a fascinating story of her personal journey into being physically sustained purely by Light. It also touches on physical immortality, spirituality and sexuality, new millennium relationships and mind mastery utilizing the powerful programming of Dimensional Biofield Science. Pioneering new yet ancient pathways, many are now exploring the option of neither being a meat eater, a vegetarian, a vegan, a fruitarian but rather a ’liquidarian’ or an individual sustained and n
Author: Susan Baker
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Keywords: nutrition, series, clinical, hall, chapman, enteral, pediatric, amp
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 1995-12-31
List price: $112.95
ISBN-10: 0412984512
ISBN-13: 9780412984518
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Chapman & Hall Series in Clinical Nutrition. Reference for pediatricians or hospital nutritionists on the provision of liquid formula diets by mouth or tube into a child’s gastrointestinal tract. 48 contributors, 46 U.S.
Authors:John Kirschmann, Inc. Nutrition Search,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: almanac, nutrition
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-12-21
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0071436588
ISBN-13: 9780071436588
The first three editions of Nutrition Almanac sold more than 2.5 million copies. The 494-page fourth edition is expanded and updated, with new information to answer your questions and help you plan your personal nutritional program. "Nutrition is the relationship of foods to the health of the human body," explain the Kirschmanns (daughter and father), and they cover every aspect of how food relates to health. A detailed section on nutrients, for example, describes each vitamin and mineral, how it is absorbed and stored, dosage and toxicity, deficiency effects and symptoms, beneficial effect on
Author: Joan Sabate
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: nutrition, modern, vegetarian
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2001-03-21
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0849385083
ISBN-13: 9780849385087
Approximately 12 million U.S. citizens consider themselves vegetarians, and 13.5 percent of all U.S. households claim to have at least one family member practicing some form of vegetarianism. In the past 30 years, scientific endeavors in the area of vegetarian nutrition have progressively shifted from investigating dietary concerns held by nutritionists and other health professionals to creative solutions for various medical conditions and preventive approaches to chronic diseases. Although professional interest in vegetarian nutrition has now reached unprecedented levels, scientific knowledge
