| Descripcion |
xii, 194 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Coleccion |
Women in culture and society
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-185) and index. |
| Contents |
One : Female body fat; celebrating the difference -- Two : Too little and too much body fat -- Three : Female adolescence; puberty and growing up -- Four : Eggs, sperm, 'female testes', and other fancies and facts about the reproductive system -- Five : Historical guesses; what hastened or slowed menarche? -- Six : Predicting menarche; critical fatness -- Seven : Pubertal body fat-sex fat?; a neat mechanism for reproductive success -- Eight : Physical activity and too little fat; ballet dancers, swimmers, runners and other athletes -- Nine : Exercise and lower risk of breast cancer; the Alumnae Health Study -- Ten : Leptin; a new hormone made by body fat -- Eleven : Population, food intake and fertility; old and new perspectives -- Twelve : Fatness, fertility and the Body Mass Index; finding your 'desirable weight'. |
| Materia |
Fertility, Human.
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Infertility, Female.
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Body composition.
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Human reproduction.
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| Autor Secundario |
Barbieri, Robert L., 1952-
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| ISBN |
0226265455 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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