Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Avoid and overcome the female athlete triad. World expert Dr. Carol L. Otis provides practical guidelines based on sports medicine and athletes' inspiring experiences. Composed of disordered eating, amenorrhea (lack of monthly menstrual cycles), and osteoporosis (thin bones), the triad can be treated and prevented so women can train, compete, and stay healthy all at the same time.
From the Publisher
”This book is a very thoughtful and thorough guide that addresses the most alluring and dangerous methods commonly used by today's dedicated athletic women: restrictive dieting and rigorous, sometimes punitive training to attain the perfect body and the perfect performance. The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide is full of useful information and advice on how to get beyond the false magic of the misused numbers of body weight, body composition, and unreal ideal body images. Women athletes can finally put together a training plan using the book's methods to create a new vision of the perfect body of an athletic woman: a healthy, vital and strong woman who not only achieves her best performance but is proud and comfortable living in her own skin, according to an ideal that is realistic and healthy for her body type."
Barbara Harris Editor in Chief, SHAPE Magazine
"This is a practical book, one I wish I had long ago. It could have saved me many years struggling with my diet, wrestling with weight issues, and trying to find myself in a world that always seemed to want me to be somebody else. Read this book for yourself, and then pass it on to a friend. The Athletic Women's Survival Guide gets the word out to a young generation of women who now have opportunities to participate that were not available twenty or even 10 years ago. Let's make sport and exercise the wonderful, empowering activity we know it can be for all women.”
Billie Jean King Six-time Wimbledon Champion Four-time U.S. Open Champion
"Solely devoted to the problem of the female athlete triad, The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide is a much-needed work. Otis is an expert on women's sport and health issues and she's given competitors a solid battle plan to fight the syndrome."
Dagny Scott Former editor of Women's Sports & Fitness, Women Outside, and Running Times
“Covering the health and safety issues of the Triad clearly and effectively, The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide will fill a void that has existed since the Triad was recognized. The Guide will be a valuable resource for not only coaches and athletic administrators, but also teachers, doctors, parents and young women with the syndrome."
Randa Ryan Assistant Athletic Director University of Texas, Austin
The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide: How to Win the Battle Against Eating Disorders, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis
The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide: How to Win the Battle Against Eating Disorders, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis,Carol L., M.D. Otis,Roger Goldingay,Human Kinetics Publishers,0736001212,Allied Health Services - General,Amenorrhea,Consumer Health,Diseases,Eating disorders,General,Health and hygiene,Health/Fitness,Sports & Recreation,Women And Sports,Women athletes,Women's Health - General,Women's Studies - General
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