Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs or Behavior Based Safety Process

Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs

Author: Stella Lucia Volp

As physical activity becomes increasingly popular, the diversity of active participants is greater than ever. Professionals working with active clients have an appreciation for the fact that many of their clients face unique dietary challenges. Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs is the first book to deliver state-of-the-art nutrition information pertaining to a variety of these special populations with distinctive dietary needs.

This easy-to-use reference provides scientifically based nutrition guidelines for a wide range of physically active clients—including vegetarians, pregnant and menopausal women, children and adolescents, older adults, people with diabetes, and participants in weight-restricted sports. Written in a straightforward manner, Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs is ideal for athletic trainers and personal trainers. It allows them to guide clients in proper eating for optimal exercise performance, and it recognizes when a client needs to be referred to a registered dietitian. The text may also be used as a quick reference for nutritionists and dietitians and as a valuable resource for those who exercise competitively, for health and fitness, or just for fun.

The following are some of the text's useful features:

• 50 figures, tables, and special elements that you can photocopy and give to patients or clients to ensure they follow your suggestions—including examples of poor versus better carbohydrate choices, the Motherwell Pregnancy Food Pyramid, and the healthy effects of certain fats
• 12 real-life case studies from guest dietitians to illustrate how the material can be applied in a variety of settings
• Sample meal plans and an appendix of alternative food choices that you can photocopy so you can design individualized plans for patients or clients and teach them how to adapt the plans to accommodate personal tastes and needs
• Exercise guidelines for specific populations to assist you in prescribing appropriate exercise for each person's condition and stage of life

In addition, the reference is valuable to coaches and sports medicine physicians in their efforts to provide sound dietary advice to both noncompetitive exercisers who want to stay fit and competitive athletes who want to achieve optimal performance. The text contains practical guidelines for addressing the needs of children who exercise and play sports as well as the needs of overweight athletes and exercisers in weight-dependent sports—an area often overlooked in sport nutrition books.

Physical therapists who work with the geriatric population will also find the resource useful because it will bring them up to date on meeting the nutrition and exercise needs of older adults as they progress through the physiological changes that come with aging. Psychiatrists will use the practical information to ensure proper counseling, healthy nutrition, and appropriate exercises for patients with eating disorders and disordered eating.

There is no better resource for anyone who needs to understand scientifically based nutrition guidelines for a wide range of physically active people. Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs explains nutrition guidelines for unique populations and also helps you prescribe a healthy diet appropriate to each client's condition and stage of life to ensure they achieve optimal performance and stay fit.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Michelle H Tegenkamp, BS, MS(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Description:This book provides nutrition and exercise related information on groups of people with specific needs. It includes reproducible handouts that can be used by professionals and incorporates case studies at the end of each chapter.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a sports nutrition oriented reference to health professionals on specific groups such as vegetarians, children/adolescents, older adults, pregnant and postmenopausal women, individuals with eating disorders, and people who exercise in extreme climates. It is useful to have this information in one reference and the authors meet their objectives.
Audience:The audience includes registered dietitians, sports nutritionists, athletic and personal trainers, physical therapists, and sports medicine physicians. The book is written at a level that is easy to understand for people without an in-depth knowledge of nutrition. This is a good basic reference for the intended audience, but may be too basic for individuals with experience in the area.
Features:Each chapter covers specific nutritional needs of a particular group, physical activity recommendations, and special issues related to that group. Each chapter also contains several case studies for that specific population, which repeat a lot of what is covered in the chapters while adding the element of application to the information. The book is all black and white, but this allows for the reproducible figures which are a unique and relevant feature.
Assessment:There are few if any books that include nutrition and sportsinformation on all these special groups. This book would be beneficial for professionals without a lot of background knowledge in these areas.

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Behavior-Based Safety Process: Managing Involvement for an Injury-Free Culture

Author: Thomas R Kraus

The Behavior-Based Safety Process Since the behavior-based approach to accident prevention was launched in 1980 by the author and his associates, safety performance is increasingly prominent on the agendas of many companies. Several powerful factors contribute to this trend. The widespread reorganization of personnel into work-groups that are leaner and more self-directed, the increasing importance of international competition, the growing awareness of critical environmental issuesthese and related factors highlight the value of any mechanism that promotes continuous improvement in safety performance. Detailing a step-by-step approach to just such a mechanism for continuous improvement, The Behavior-Based Safety Process is a path-breaking guide that represents an important resource for anyone concerned with performance related issues in the workplace. As the title indicates, the focus is on process versus programs. The reason is simple: off-the-shelf safety imposed from the top down does not meet the safety needs of most organizations. This fact has been abundantly demonstrated in facility after facility throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In genuinely meeting the need for continuous improvement in safety performance, the behavior-based approach presents many parallels with the quality improvement process. Both of these approaches use scientific methods to identify, measure, and provide feedback on upstream factors of excellence. In the case of the behavior-based approach to safety, these upstream factors are critical behaviors that are the leading indicators of safety performance in the organization, targeting areas of concern in advance of even first-aid incidents. For anin-depth treatment of how to integrate behavioral and statistical methodologies, see the authors companion volume from Van Nostrand Reinhold: Employee-Driven Systems for Safe Behavior. In addition to presenting these parallels with quality. The Behavior-Based Safety Process also provides powerful techniques aimed at implementation issues: organizational development, trainer-training, and employee involvement. The author and his associates developed these techniques over a decade of consultation with a variety of industries, working closely in that time with such safety leaders as Monsanto, Shell Chemical Company, ARCO Chemical, ALCOA, Rohm and Haas, Scott Paper Company, Georgia Gulf Corporation, The Pillsbury Company, and Chevron U.S.A.