Feature Summary- Uses a question-answer approach with questions arranged in a logical sequence, so that the answer to one question often leads into the question that follows.
- Examines the interrelationship of health, fitness, sport, and nutrition.
- Incorporates up-to-date research throughout the text, including expanded information on dietary supplements, ergogenic aids, and nutritional quackery.
- Includes correlations with HealthQuest throughout the text where appropriate.
- Gives students the latest resources for further exploration and research in the appendix: American College of Sports Medicine: Maintaining Cardiorespiratory and Muscular Fitness; Healthy People 2010 (website updates): Objectives for Physical Activity and Nutrition; Internet Sources of Reliable Information on Nutrition as Related to Health, Exercise, and Sports.
- Offers practical activities throughout, such as estimating body fat, estimating the number of calories needed to maintain body weight, or calculating the caloric expenditure for a given exercise.
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2005 McGraw-Hill Higher Education