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Advertising Sports Nutrition Practices To Adolescent Athletes: A Poster Series, Emma Hansen
Advertising Sports Nutrition Practices To Adolescent Athletes: A Poster Series, Emma Hansen
Honors Theses
Sports nutrition is an important aspect of an athlete’s training and improvement, yet it is often overlooked when it comes to younger competitors. Four posters were created with the intent of providing adolescent athletes, their parents, and their coaches with information about important topics in sports nutrition including a general overview of nutrition goals, hydration strategies, recovery nutrition, and nutritional considerations for vegetarian and vegan youth athletes. The posters were designed to appeal to adolescents from the ages of 13 to 18, and each poster covers its designated topic in detail appropriate for middle and high school-aged athletes. The accompanying …
G03-1506 Starving For Success — The Dangers Of Disordered Eating, Amy L. Peterson, Linda S. Boeckner
G03-1506 Starving For Success — The Dangers Of Disordered Eating, Amy L. Peterson, Linda S. Boeckner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
Eating disorders are actually distorted eating habits, often related to emotional problems. There are three main eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
Eating disorders affect one million or more Americans with 5 to 20 percent dying as a result of medical complications. This NebGuide reviews the warning signs of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating and how to get treatment and help.
Nf98-387 Children And Stress, Herbert G. Lingren
Nf98-387 Children And Stress, Herbert G. Lingren
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebFact offers some advice to help reduce stress in children's lives.
Nf97-340 Sun Protection Guide For Children, Rose Marie Tondl
Nf97-340 Sun Protection Guide For Children, Rose Marie Tondl
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebFact has information on precautions that should be taken to protect children from harmful exposure to the sun.
G97-1322 High Risk Youth, Herbert G. Lingren
G97-1322 High Risk Youth, Herbert G. Lingren
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide defines the relationship between adolescence and high risk behaviors, helps parent and adolescent identify external and internal assets and suggests parent strategies for promoting and increasing those assets.
American youth today are often considered to be in a state of crisis. Approximately half of all adolescents are at moderate to high risk of engaging in one or more self-destructive behaviors, including unsafe sex, teenage pregnancy and childbearing; drug and alcohol abuse; under achievement, failure, or dropping out of school; and delinquent or criminal behaviors. Many of these problem behaviors are interrelated. Some of these behaviors are related to …