Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution or ACSMs Health Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

Author: Robert C Atkins

Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, Good Health and Disease Prevention Through the Atkins Nutritional Approach™

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution has helped millions lose weight and get healthy. Now the world's #1 diet and complementary medicine expert has updated his proven program for a new century -- offering essential new information based on scientifically supported controlled carbohydrate principles. The updated New Diet Revolution includes:

• All you need to know to achieve permanent weight loss and a lifetime of well-being
• Brand-new case studies
• The very latest scientific research!

With Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, you can eat the delicious meals you love and kick-start your metabolism so that you burn fat for energy. You can reduce the risk factors associated with certain major health problems, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Atkins will help you re-energize your life by rebalancing your nutrition so that you look good, feel good, lose weight and keep it off. A carbohydrate counter is included.

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Library Journal

Atkins updates his 20-year-old best seller, Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution with a holistic approach to health and well-being. He repeats his controversial, questionably valid premise that the elimination of carbohydrates from the diet will result in weight loss, good health, and euphoria. Contrary to current thinking, Atkins promotes a diet of protein and fat in four stages: induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance, and maintenance. Case histories document his achievements. However, his verbose text, bloated by rhetoric and generalizations, may overwhelm lay readers, who may not be able to distinguish between fact and speculation. Useful appendixes include menus, recipes, and a carbohydrate gram counter..-- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community College Library, Garden City, NY

Kirkus Reviews

"Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution", published two decades ago, sold millions of copies but was denounced by medical authorities for its unsound high-calorie, low-carbohydrate regimen. Now it's back, slightly modified, and billed even more contrariwise as a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. Atkins blames carbohydrates for most cases of overweight—as well as for much fatigue, mental fog, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. A high-fat diet, he says, is harmful only when added to a high- carbohydrate diet. At times, he backs off and hedges, admitting, for example, that refined flour and sugar, not all carbohydrates, are the culprits, and even that the desserts he promotes should be limited to special occasions. Still, heavy cream, butter, and cheese abound in his recipes; bacon and eggs are on his daily breakfast menu; and his program, especially the 14-day "induction diet" designed to induce ketosis, or fat-burning, turns all prevailing guidelines upside down. It will be interesting to see how this book does now that low-fat, high-carbohydrate eating has been so widely accepted by professionals and public alike. Atkins claims success with his 25,000 overweight patients (who take an average of 30 nutritional pills a day along with the diet), and he scores a point or two against pro-establishment preconceptions among researchers, but he certainly doesn't prove that his is the healthier diet. Still, get ready for a blitz.

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ACSM's Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines: Third Edition

Author: American College of Sports Medicin

Revised and updated to reflect the most current information from the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM’s Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines, Third Edition, outlines the proper standards and guidelines to follow for designing and operating health and fitness facilities. The book provides facility managers with the tools necessary for evaluating the quality of their facilities, staff, and programs, and it shows them what they must do to maintain the standard of care that they offer their members and users. Facility managers will also get tips on what services, equipment, or programming they should provide to enhance the overall experience at their facility, thereby increasing and retaining membership.

By incorporating the views of industry trade organizations and fitness associations, this new third edition represents an up-to-date industry consensus on accepted standards (the minimal performance expectations each facility must meet) and guidelines (recommendations for each facility achieving higher than minimal expectations) for staffing, programming, safety, design, and equipment. The following are updates and enhancements to this new edition:

* A thorough presentation of standards and guidelines addressing all aspects of facility management, such as risk management and emergency planning, pre-activity screening, orientation, education, supervision, staff qualifications, facility design and construction, facility equipment, signage, and operational practices
* Explanations about why compliance to the standards is beneficial to health and fitness facilities
* Recommendations concerning the development of technological advances, such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
* Related federal laws, including the OSHA blood-borne pathogen rule, employment laws, and the Federal Privacy Act, so that facility managers can protect their members as well as their businesses
* ACSM position statements and information from the most recent ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (2006)
* A substantial increase in the supplemental materials and forms featured in the appendixes, providing even more specific detailed information for various types of facilities

ACSM’s Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines, Third Edition, is far more applicable than previous editions. By organizing the content into chapters that feature reviews and discussions of specific focal points as well as many practical applications, the material is easy to apply in real-world situations. Each chapter is focused on a specific issue and addresses both the standards and guidelines that pertain to that issue.

As a result, facility managers in every setting can gain a clear understanding of how to put the recommendations into practice, whether in a community or workplace facility, school, hotel, or spa. By measuring their facilities against the recommendations, managers can enhance the services they deliver to facility members.

Table of Contents:

Editors and Editorial Board
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notice and Disclaimer

Chapter 1. Blueprint for Excellence

Chapter 2. Pre-Activity Screening
Standards for Pre-Activity Screening
Guidelines for Pre-Activity Screening

Chapter 3. Orientation, Education, and Supervision
Standards for Orientation, Education, and Supervision
Guidelines for Orientation, Education, and Supervision

Chapter 4. Risk Management and Emergency Policies
Standards for Risk Management and Emergency Policies
Guidelines for Risk Management and Emergency Policies

Chapter 5. Professional Staff and Independent Contractors
Standards for Health/Fitness Facility Professional Staff and Independent Contractors
Guidelines for Health/Fitness Facility Professional Staff and Independent Contractors

Chapter 6. Health/Fitness Facility Design and Construction
Standards for Health/Fitness Facility Design and Construction
Guidelines for Health/Fitness Facility Design and Construction

Chapter 7. Health/Fitness Facility Equipment
Standards for Health/Fitness Facility Equipment
Guidelines for Health/Fitness Facility Equipment

Chapter 8. Health/Fitness Facility Operating Practices
Standards for Health/Fitness Facility Operating Practices
Guidelines for Health/Fitness Facility Operating Practices

Chapter 9. Signage in Health/Fitness Facilities
Standards for Signage in Health/Fitness Facilities
Guidelines for Signage in Health/Fitness Facilities

Appendix A. Supplements
Appendix B. Forms
Appendix C. Accessible Sports Facilities: A Summary of Accessibility Guidelines for Recreational Facilities
Appendix D. Accessible Swimming Pools and Spas: A Summary of Accessibility Guidelines for Swimming Pools and Spas
Appendix E. Trade and Professional Associations Involved in the Health/Fitness Facility Industry
Appendix F. About the American College of Sports Medicine
Appendix G. AHA/ACSM Joint Position Statement: Recommendations for Cardiovascular Screening, Staffing, and Emergency Policies at Health/Fitness Facilities
Appendix H. ACSM/AHA Joint Position Statement: Automated External Defibrillators in Health/Fitness Facilities
Appendix I. Bibliography
Index