What's New to this Edition

Features updated content with new information from ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (2006), USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2005), MyPyramid (2005), new facts, trends, and updated classification tables for obesity, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis, and arthritis

Includes more than 500 new references from the scientific literature, for a total of over 2,300 references

Offers 10 new Physical Fitness Activities, including assessments for psychological distress, sleep problems, diet quality, and risk of osteoporosis, and estimation of VO2max using an equation, the one-mile walk test, and a step test for college students

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