Practical Sports Nutrition or Homeopathic Self Care

Practical Sports Nutrition

Author: Louise Burk

As knowledge and practice of sports nutrition become increasingly sophisticated, there is new appreciation of the fact that basketball players, runners, gymnasts—all athletes—have different nutritional needs. Practical Sports Nutrition is the first text to provide detailed, sport-specific advice enabling you to approach individual athletes and teams with an understanding of their sport and unique nutritional needs.

Unlike other texts on the subject that get caught up with chemistry and science, this book provides information that is applied, practical, and useful. Nutrition expert Louise Burke engages readers with her easy writing style, and she explores a variety of popular sports—road cycling, swimming, sprinting, long-distance running, and many others. Each chapter offers a comprehensive review of competition, training, physique and physiology, lifestyle and culture, dietary surveys, sports foods and supplements—all tailored to the specific sport. Also included are discussions of issues and challenges arising in each sport that provide useful examples of how to successfully tackle sport-specific problems.

Athletes want to know that the person advising them understands their specific needs. With Practical Sports Nutrition, you will learn how to translate the latest ideas on nutrition into tailored recommendations on what athletes should eat before and after practices and competitions. More important, you will learn why those exact foods are beneficial to the athlete. Specific research cited in more than 200 pages of tables backs up the advice given on nutrition, food, supplements, and other topics, so you can feel confident the information is up to date and applicable in the real world.

Practical Sports Nutrition includes the following features:

• Chapters organized around specific sport categories
• Special elements that provide in-the-trenches insight and help you synthesize both practical issues and emerging research topics
• Chapter appendix that includes up-to-date and comprehensive meta-analysis tables for quick comparisons of key research studies

There is no better one-stop guide for dietitians, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, or anyone who needs to know where and how principles of sports nutrition apply to the training and competition of athletes. Not only will you gain a thorough grasp of the specialized nutrition information needed in various sports and exercise activities, but you will also be able to give recommendations with confidence.

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Reviewer:Jamie A. Cooper, MS(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Description:This book addresses important nutritional obstacles or issues that arise in sports and provides the necessary information on how to deal with them. Nutritional information for training, precompetition, competition, and recovery from competition is provided based on current research.
Purpose:The purpose is to determine nutrition issues that arise in different sports that share similar lifestyle and physiological characteristics. Lifestyle and physiological characteristics are important factors to examine when determining proper nutrition for a given sport. This book provides scientific and research-based information that is essential for people interested in the field of sports nutrition.
Audience:According to the author, this is intended to provide nutritional information that can translate from the classroom to the field, court, or track. The book references and uses data from a number of research studies making it appropriate for a classroom or research setting, but is also written at a level that can be easily used by coaches and athletes in the sports that are covered.
Features:While the main focus of this book is on providing nutrition information for a variety of sports, it also addresses the physiological and cultural characteristics of each sport and how those impact proper nutrition for optimal performance. The book provides a comprehensive review of the current literature, which is summarized clearly in the appendix, and gives practical strategies for achieving nutrition goals in each sport category. Although it addresses manycomponents of nutrition, it is not designed to be a supplement guide and does not address many of the ergogenic aids available today.
Assessment:This book provides detailed information about nutrition issues that all athletes face and how to deal with these issues to achieve one's sports nutrition goals for optimal performance. The sound nutritional advice is backed up by a comprehensive review of the literature.

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Homeopathic Self-Care: A Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family

Author: Robert Ullman

Homeopathy Is Now as Easy as 1, 2, 3
Homeopathy is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. More and more people are realizing that it really does work, and can be used to treat a wide range of common health problems. Now, thanks to a new book by best-selling authors Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman homeopathy can be used easily, safely, and effectively by anyone.
In Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family, readers will learn to recognize and treat more than 70 specific conditions using a clear, step-by-step approach. It really can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 if you look, listen, and ask the right questions.
The book is clearly written, and organized in an easy-to-use format that will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about homeopathy. In addition, dozens of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines are listed; a glossary is included; and there are tips for obtaining a homeopathic self-care medicine kit.

Library Journal

The authors, practicing naturopathic physicians, aim to provide a "simple, practical, highly informative yet user friendly guide to self treatment," and in this they succeed. They emphasize that their guide is meant for treatment of first aid or acute conditions, not chronic or complicated ones. This well-organized book is divided into three parts. Part 1 explains homeopathy and how to use the guide and discusses "taking the case" as well as analyzing, selecting, and administering homeopathic medicines. Part 2, the bulk of the work, lists ailments from abscesses to motion sickness and the homeopathic medicines used to treat them. Icons prompt the user to follow the steps outlined in Part 1. Part 3 describes the main features of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines, and here it helps to have read Part 1 first. Appendixes include lists of books, organizations, homeopathy pharmacies, and information on how to find a homeopath. Recommended for public libraries and alternative medicine collections.Kate Kelly, Treadwell Lib., Massachusetts General Hosp., Boston