Fuel for Young Athletes or Hair Pulling Problem

Fuel for Young Athletes

Author: Ann Selkowitz Litt

The foundation for success in sports is formed by effective skill and tactical instruction, adequate physical conditioning, and proper nutrition. Fuel for Young Athletes provides guidelines for meeting the essential nutritional needs of adolescent athletes to set the stage for good health and optimal performance throughout their sport careers.

Development of an athletic body hinges on whether the aspiring athlete gets the appropriate amounts and types of foods and fluids to spur growth, meet daily energy needs, and keep weight and fat levels within healthy ranges. Fuel for Young Athletes provides food plans to tackle the demands of specific sports, and recipe and snack ideas that will appeal to teens and power their performance on playing fields and courts.

Registered dietician Ann Litt addresses all the key issues, such as weight management, vitamin supplementation, growth, and hydration. Fuel for Young Athletes provides the nutritional bases for successful sport participation through the teenage years and beyond.

What People Are Saying

Nancy Clark
This easy-to-understand, practical guide is a must read for all parents and young athletes. It provides sound sports nutrition information to optimally fuel the growing athlete's body.
—(Nancy Clark, MS, RD Sports nutritionist and author of Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook)

Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery,Assistant director, National Federation of State High School Associations
If you are a parent looking for food tips for your growing athletes, Ann Litt's Fuel for Young Athletes will answer your questions and calm your concerns.

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Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania

Author: Fred Penzel

Trichotillomania, one of the family of obsessive-compulsive disorders, may afflict as many as 6 to 8 million people in the United States. Now, a leading authority on obsessive-compulsive disorders, Dr. Fred Penzel, has written the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to this syndrome available, filled with reassuring advice for patients and their families.
Endorsed by the Trichotillomania Learning Center, the leading advocate group for this disorder, this superb handbook includes all the information a patient or relative would need to understand this illness and to cope with it. Penzel provides a detailed discussion of causes and he reviews all the treatment options, describing the most effective medications and their side effects as well as the recommended cognitive and behavioral treatments. He shows patients how to design a self-help program and gain control of their compulsive behavior, how to prevent relapse, describes trichotillomania and its treatment in children, and suggests coping strategies for families at home and in public situations. He also provides a guide to all the resources available, including internet sites, recommended books, and videos, and outlines ways to start a support group. The appendix will include questionnaires, clinical rating scales, and the official DSM diagnostic criteria for the disorder, so readers can decide if they need to seek behavioral and possibly medical treatment.
Dr. Penzel has helped patients with OCD and trichotillomania for over twenty years and is one of America's leading authorities on these disorders. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, he has produced the most complete and scientifically accuratehandbook available on this disorder, a comforting guide packed with information to help people with trichotillomania get well and stay well.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Foreword
	Introduction
1	What is Trichotillomania?
2	"The Shame of It All" - What To Do About It
3	The Causes of TTM - Why Do People Pull?
4	Some Facts About Hair
5	How TTM Is Treated
6	Designing a Self-Help Program
7	Medication and TTM Treatment
8	Recovery and Maintenance
9	TTM and Your Child
10	TTM and the Other People in Your Life
11	Resources for Getting Help
	Glossary
App. A	Trichotillomania, Skin Picking and Nail Biting Symptom Checklist
App. B	TTM Clinical Rating Scales and Questionnaires
App. C	Official DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Trichotillomania
	Index
	About the Author