The Complete Book of Fitness or Gene Therapy

The Complete Book of Fitness: Mind, Body, Spirit

Author: Fitness Magazin

From the expert editors of Fitness magazine, here is everything you need to know about exercise, nutrition, and well-being in one comprehensive volume, The Complete Book of Fitness. Hundreds of entries are organized alphabetically in four sections:

• Strength Training offers effective, illustrated workouts for every muscle group.
  
• Cardiovascular Training includes invaluable information on fat-burning and metabolism.
  
• Diet and Nutrition demystifies eating for health, strength, and athletic performance.
  
• Wellness provides an introduction to alternative therapies and healing, rounding out your total fitness package of mind, body, and spirit.

So whether you want to flatten your abs or firm your thighs, you're looking for a stretching routine or cross-training ideas, you want to carbo-load or unload a few pounds, or if you wish to increase your energy or reduce your stress, finding the answers is literally as easy as A-B-C. Clearly written for the layperson, The Complete Book of Fitness serves as a primer on fitness basics, from biceps to water aerobics, from antioxidants to yoga. Packed with easy-to-access information, it is also a gym bible and can be used to customize a detailed fitness regimen to suit any lifestyle and body type.

This first-of-its-kind fitness encyclopedia is a must-have for every health-conscious household.

School Library Journal

YA-A wellness guide that will appeal especially to young women. It is a broadly conceived and highly readable resource, presented in an oversized format with bold headings, large type, and clear drawings of exercises. The material is organized into four major categories: strength training, cardiovascular training, diet and nutrition, and, lastly, wellness. Within each section the topics are alphabetically arranged, which has its drawbacks-subjects that go together logically don't appear consecutively. However, the index is thorough and there is extensive cross-referencing throughout. The book has the light-handed writing style of Fitness magazine articles; nonetheless, it reflects the current medical thinking while including such "hot" topics as vegetarianism, Chinese medicine, homeopathy, Tai Chi and Chi Kung, burning fat, cross training, and aromatherapy. The editors have included essays on body image, osteoporosis, women and muscle, special medical conditions and working out, pregnancy and exercise, and "A Woman's Body Passages." There are ample charts that show the muscles worked during a particular exercise, nutrients and what they do, how to calculate body-mass index, minerals and what they do, and target heart rates.-Cynthia J. Rieben, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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Gene Therapy (Health and Medical Issues Today Series)

Author: Evelyn B Kelly

Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare and medical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. Websites and weblogs provide information from activists and partisans intent on presenting their side of a story. But where can students - or even ordinary citizens - go to obtain unbiased, detailed background on the medical issues affecting their daily lives? This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides readers and researchers a balanced, in-depth introduction to the medical, scientific, legal, and cultural issues surrounding gene therapy and its import in today's world of healthcare.

Gene Therapy is organized to provide researchers with easy access to the information they need:

Section 1 provides overview chapters on the background information needed to intelligently understand the issues and controversies surrounding gene therapy, such as the history of theories of the gene and recent developments in clinical trials

Section 2 offers capsule examinations of the contemporary issues and debates that provoke the most heated disagreements and misunderstandings, such as whether or not humans should "tinker" with genetic material and who pays for genetic therapies.

Section 3 includes reference material on stem cells, including primary source documents from important players in the struggle over gene therapy, a timeline of important events, and an annotated bibliography of useful print and electronic resources. This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides everything a student requires to understand the issues involved in gene therapy and provides a springboard for further research into the issue.