Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders

By: Monika Saigal

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Synopsis: Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is written with an insider’s understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This much-needed resource provides research-based, practical approaches to help dancers fuel optimally, nourish a peaceful relationship with food, and nurture more positive and resilient body image.Under-fueling, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and disordered eating are far too common among dancers. Despite the prevalence of these issues in dancers across genres, and their negative impacts on dancers’ physical and mental health and performance, they have not been adequately addressed in the dance community. Improving dancers’ health and well-being is necessary for both dancers and the art form to thrive, and everyone involved in the training and care of dancers can play an important role in this mission.Nourishing Dance provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder prevention to help parents, teachers, staff, choreographers, leadership, athletic trainers, coaches, and healthcare professionals contribute to making the dance world a healthier and safer place for dancers.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040025031
Related ISBNs:: 9781032432120, 9781003366171, 9781040025062, 9781032432113
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/24/24
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Cooking, Food and Wine, Health, Mind and Body
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.