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Nutrition Education To Minimize Health Risk: Approaches For Teaching College Students And Female High School Athletes, Katie Nicole Brown
Nutrition Education To Minimize Health Risk: Approaches For Teaching College Students And Female High School Athletes, Katie Nicole Brown
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Obesity, heart disease, and osteoporosis are among the major health concerns facing Americans today. Obesity, elevated blood cholesterol, and even atherosclerosis are affecting America’s children and adolescents and putting them at increased risk for heart disease later in life. Similarly, low bone mineral density is seen among some adolescents including female athletes, increases their risk for immediate and lifetime fracture. Female athletes who do not consume enough calories to compensate for calories expended during physical activity are in a state of low energy availability which can lead to menstrual dysfunction, as well as bone loss, and injury (the female athlete …