| 320 | Thursday, April 1, 2004 |
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| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM | Convention Center:214 |
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| Female Athletes and Weight Loss Efforts Using a High Protein Diet - What are the Consequences? |
| The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate the health hazards associated with the high protein diet. Attendees will benefit from this session as they answer the following questions: 1) Why is this diet so attractive?; 2) How does this diet work from a physiologic standpoint?; and 3) Why is this diet so detrimental to health and performance, specifically of females? The high protein diet is a fad diet currently on the market and many females are using this diet to lose weight, thus necessitating the need to education health professionals about the consequences of this diet. |
Keyword(s): college level issues, standards and ethics, wellness/disease prevention
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| Speaker: Brenda Malinauskas, East Carolina University, Petersburg, VA |