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THE COMPLETE SPORTS MEDICINE BOOK FOR WOMEN.
By Mona Shangold and Gabe Mirkin
(New York: Fireside Books, 1985 pp. 213. $8.95 paperback.)
Military women, and indeed most women today, are concerned about physical fitness. For the military woman, exercise and fitness are more than "a good thing;" the level of fitness is recorded on the annual performance evaluation. This helps to motivate, but there are still many pitfalls to maintaining a good exercise program. One contributing difficulty, the scarcity of good literature on the subject of women, health, and exercise has been corrected with the publication this year of he Complete Sports Medicine Book For Women by Mona Shangold and Gabe Mirkin. The authors, both medical doctors, have written an authoritative, readable, comprehensive book, which might also be called a complete primer on sports medicine for women.
Dr Shangold is Director of Sports Gynecology Center, Georgetwon University Hospital, and the co-author of Women's Medical Problems with Evelyn C. Gross (Hearst, 1981). Dr Mirkin is an Associate Clinical Professor of Fediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is the co-author (with Marshall Hoffman) of The Sports Medicine Book (Little, Brown, 1978) and the author of Getting Thin (with Laura Foreman), also Little, Brown, 1983. Dr Mirkin is the well-known Washington host of the WNTR radio call in show on health, fitness, and nutrition which airs each weekday afternoon. Both are frequent contributors to various publications on health and fitness topics.
In their foreword, Drs Shangold and Mirkin state: "We have written this book to inform women about how exercise affects their bodies, how to deal with many problems that may arise in an exercise program, and how to prevent: many of those problems too." They carry out their objectives with admirable clarity in the thirteen chapters of this book.
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