Norms for Fitness Performance and Health or The PCOS Protection Plan

Norms for Fitness, Performance, and Health

Author: Jay Hoffman

Norms for Fitness, Performance, and Health contains a comprehensive collection of normative data for numerous fitness, performance, and health components across a range of ages, abilities, occupations, and athletic backgrounds. It lays the foundation for working with normative data by detailing the purpose and benefits of norms. It reviews relevant statistical information to assist the reader in understanding and interpreting descriptive statistics, including a limited discussion on inferential statistics.

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Reviewer: Jessica Jo Groth, BA(Central College)
Description: This book provides health and fitness testing information, including how to test an individual, as well as normative data with which to compare results.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a standard reference for those involved in health and fitness evaluations. While there are other resources available for this purpose, this book provides the reader with many resources and is a beneficial reference.
Audience: It is written for fitness instructors, physical educators, exercise scientists, coaches, and civil service professionals, although it is written at a level that can be understood by students as well. The author has much experience in this field and is very knowledgeable.
Features: This is an overview of health and fitness testing and normative data for these tests. The book includes many charts and graphs, providing the reader with many references.
Assessment: Because of the extensive amount of charts and graphs, this book is a good resource. The level at which the information is presented makes it easy to understand and follow. This book is comparable to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, 6th edition (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000). The ACSM publication goes into more depth, while this book provides more charts and visual data.

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The PCOS Protection Plan: How to Cut Your Increased Risk of Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and High Blood Pressure

Author: Colette Harris

Do you struggle with your weight? Have irregular periods (or none at all)? Get acne? Notice thinning hair? Or do you have to deal with unwanted facial and body hair? If you have any of these problems, the chances are fairly good that you have PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), along with one in ten women.
We now know that women with PCOS are more likely to get diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and obesity and its related health problems; and research is currently linking PCOS to a host of other health complications as well. And while you might see this as a frightening glimpse into the future, at least women with PCOS can look future health risks in the eye and then do something right now to reduce them instead of never knowing what could be around the corner.
That something is the PCOS Protection Plan, an action plan written by women with PCOS for women with PCOS—to help you take control of your health so that you can significantly reduce the risk of serious health conditions.

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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a leading cause of infertility, affects eight million American women. Yet few people are familiar with the hormonal condition. Two new books have the potential to change that. In A Patient's Guide, Futterweit (endocrinology, Mount Sinai Sch. of Medicine; Obesity and Medical Student Education) draws on 25 years of PCOS treatment and research to explain clearly the condition and its effects on the body. He stresses working with a physician who has experience treating PCOS, covers the most current treatment options, and explains the importance of emotional support for patients. He claims that exercise and diet alone often restore fertility and offers simple regimens (with recipes) for both. His encouragement and reassurance, coupled with an extensive bibliography, a resource list, and a glossary, give women the tools they need to cope with PCOS. As two British women living with PCOS, Harris and Cheung are more than qualified to provide basic information about the condition, but their emphasis is on preventing associated complications. They take a holistic approach, discussing diet, exercise, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes and offer information about alternative therapies, too. Included are recipes, extensive references, a glossary, and a referral list. Protection Plan and A Patient's Guide complement each other well. Futterweit provides more detailed medical information, while Harris and Cheung offer more lifestyle-oriented advice. Both books would make excellent additions to public and consumer health collections.-Barbara Bibel, Oakland P.L. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.