Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection

Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
Rose E. Frisch
Foreword by Robert L. Barbieri

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Description
Are girls entering puberty earlier than they used to? This question, debated by doctors and scientist in the pages of Time magazine and the New York Times, proves that there is still a great deal to learn about women's reproductive health.

Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection is the record of one scientist's groundbreaking and decades-long work on the connections among fertility, body fat, and reproductive health in women. Rose E. Frisch explains here how, in women, a certain amount of body fat is crucial to the reproductive system and sexual maturation.

Women who are too lean are infertile and cannot conceive children: young girls who are too thin have a delayed onset of their first period. Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection illuminates how and why a "critical fatness" level underlies women's reproductive health. In the process Frisch give readers a comprehensive view of the research done to date on the relationship between body composition and fertility and also desires her own journey as a woman scientist working to advance her critical-fatness hypothesis to both the general public and the scientific community .

Firsch answers the questions every woman has about the desirable weight for health and fertility and even includes tables to help women find their own best weight. She also demonstrates how important diet and exercise are for the long-term reproductive health of women, and shows what factors influence the onset of puberty in girls. Each milestone of the reproductive life span is affected by food intake and energy output, which are the factors affecting the storage of fat. Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection provides the keys to understanding how to maintain good reproductive heath in girls and women.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0226265463
ISBN-13: 9780226265469
Format: Paperback, 208pp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pub date: 2004

Content
Foreword by Robert L. Barbieri, M.D.
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. Female Body Fat. Celebrating the Difference
Chapter Two. Too Little and Too Much Body Fat
Chapter Three. Female Adolescence. Puberty and Growing Up
Chapter Four. Eggs, Sperm, "Female Testes," and Other Fancies and Facts about the Reproductive System
Chapter Five. Historical Guesses. What Hastened or Slowed Menarche?
Chapter Six. Predicting Menarche. Critical Fatness
Chapter Seven. Pubertal Body Fat-Sex Fat? A Neat Mechanism for Reproductive Success
Chapter Eight. Physical Activity and Too Little Fat
Chapter Nine. Exercise and Lower Risk of Breast Cancer. The Alumnae Health Study
Chapter Ten. Leptin. A New Hormone Made by Body Fat
Chapter Eleven. Population, Food Intake, and Fertility. Old and New Perspectives
Chapter Twelve. Fatness, Fertility, and the Body Mass Index. Finding Your "Desirable Weight"
Biographical Note
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

Book author
Rose E. Frisch is associate professor of population sciences emerita at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the search faculty of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation. She is the editor of Adipose Tissue and Reproduction and has written widely on female fertility and on the natural fertility of the population.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4040 Disease prevention
4130 Pregnancy
4140 Lactation
4180 Women's health
5000 Medical Nutrition Therapy
5200 Disordered eating