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The popular fitness guru outlines her innovative lifestyle program to help women cope with the problems of perimenopause and menopause, offering advice on strength training, cardiovascular fitness, yoga, nutrition, stress reduction, illness prevention, weight control, balancing hormones, and other critical issues. Original.

Explains how women can stay fit and healthy in the years before, during, and after menopause, introducing a program that combines daily cardio and strength conditioning workouts with an eating plan designed to control weight and boost energy.

Nutrition and Fitness provides detailed information on a wide variety of related topics that fall into the following five subject areas: body; diet and nutrition; human behavior; illness, injury, and disorders; and prevention and cure.

This book explains in plain English how the body responds to physical activity, why physical activity is so important to health, and how best to become physically active. You'll learn how to create programs to improve your aerobic fitness; increase your muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility; control your diet and weight; and improve your performance at work and in sports. With more than 100,000 copies sold, this classic reference (formerly titled Physiology of Fitness) is your source for accurate and insightful information. Now updated and redesigned, this comprehensive text will show you how to improve and maintain your health through regular and enjoyable physical activity.

We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age.Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.

Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12, s, t.

Resource ordered for the Wellness and Health Promotion program 105461.

This textbook provides an introduction to all areas of wellness and fitness, with coverage of nutrition and physiology, substance abuse and sexually transmitted diseases. Laboratory inventories for assessing and guiding lifestyle modification are also included; and this edition includes updated coverage of the food pyramid, information on evaluation commercial fitness centres, updated information on cardiovascular disease and a lab inventory on the menstrual cycle.