Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport - Softcover

Williams, Melvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073375551 ISBN 13: 9780073375557

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.
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.
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.
Supports student learning with strong pedagogical tools such as chapter-opening Key Terms and Key Concepts; end-of-chapter Resources; end-of-book Appendices, Glossary and Index. The lists of resources at the end of each chapter have been updated, and some of the appendices are new.
Expands instructor and student resources with a dynamic new website that features an online, password protected instructor's manual and an interactive student workbook, which will include content updates.
Offers enhanced web resources as each new text is packaged with an access card to PowerWeb: Nutrition, which includes online articles, exercises and nutrition news updates.
Provides the latest nutritional guidelines, including American Heart Association Guidelines and the latest RDA/DRI values throughout the text.
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.
Includes correlations with HealthQuest throughout the text where appropriate.
Features new illustrations in support of new concepts (e.g.

Text specific website features Online Quizzing, Study Flashcards, ACSM Position Stands, Internet Resources, and much more!

About the Author:

Melvin Williams is the Director of Human Performance Laboratory at Old Dominion University, and has more than 30 years of lab research with a focus on the role of nutrition in sports. He has written and edited five books on ergogenic aids and the role of nutrition in sports -- his two latest books are The Ergogenics Edge: Pushing the Limits of Sports Performance (Human Kinetics) and Nutrition for Health, Fitness, and Sports, Sixth Edition (McGraw-Hill). He earned a B.S. from East Stroudsburg State College (1962), a Master of Education degree from Ohio University (1963), and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1968), with a doctoral dissertation on the effects of alcohol as a possible means to enhance strength and endurance. He's an accomplished marathon runner, placing first in his age group numerous times in the Marine Corps Marathon, which merited his selection in the Marine Corps Marathon Hall of Fame in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073375551
• ISBN 13: 9780073375557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 648