Body Composition Health and Performance in Exercise and Sport

BODY COMPOSITION ASSESSMENT

Body composition in perspective
Henry Lukaski

Assessment of human body composition: methods and limitations
Hannes Gatterer, Kai Schenk and Martin Burtscher

Assessment of muscle mass
Donald Dengel, Christiana J Raymond and Tyler Bosch

Hydration status and performance
Ronald Maughan and Susan Shirreffs

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & BODY COMPOSITION

Physical activity on growth and development of youth
Robert Malina and Manuel J. Coelho e Silva

Anthropometry in physical performance and health
Arthur Stewart and Tim Ackland

Physical activity and adipose tissue redistribution in obese adults
Brittany P. Hammond, Andrea M. Brennan and Robert Ross

Physical activity and body composition changes in overweight and obese children
Scott Going, Jennifer Bea and Joshua Farr

BODY COMPOSITION IN SPORTS & OCCUPATIONS

Body composition changes with training: methodological implications
Luis Sardinha and Diana Santos

Endurance athletes
Jordan Moon and Kristina Kendall

Speed, power and strength athletes
David Fukuda, Jeffery Stout and Jay Hoffman

Weight-sensitive sports
Analiza Silva, Diana Santos and Catarina Matias

Military
Karl Friedl

Body Composition and Public Safety: The Industrial Athlete
Paul Davis and Mark Abel

MODERATING FACTORS

Dietary protein and physical training effects on body composition and physical performance
Michaela C Devries, Sara Y Oikawa and Stuart Phillips

Supplements, body composition and performance
Karl Friedl

Diet and exercise approaches for reversal of exercise-associated amenorrhea
Lynn Cialdella Kam and Melinda Manore

Biography

Henry C. Lukaski, PhD, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Public Health Education, University of North Dakota. He took his undergraduate education at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, and earned Master of Science and Doctoral degrees in physiology with a minor in nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University where he was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) pre-doctoral trainee in Human Biology and a research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center then served as Supervisory Research Physiologist, Research Leader and Assistant Center Director. He is and has been a member of numerous editorial boards of peer-review scientific journals in the fields of human nutrition, exercise science, sports nutrition, and applied physiology, has served as a member of NIH, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, US Public Health Service program and grant review boards and advisor to the Food and Drug Administration, Institute of Medicine (Food and Nutrition Board Military Nutrition Committee), World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, National Collegiate Athletic Association, US and International Olympic Medical Committees, international scientific organizations, sports nutrition community, and the biomedical industry. He has authored more than 145 peer-reviewed research publications, 45 book chapters,160 abstracts and short communications, co-edited special issues of professional publications on body composition and sports nutrition, and made more than 240 invited presentations in the US, Europe, Central and South America. He is an international authority in the field of the interactions among diet and physical activity on body structure, function and health, and is recognized internationally as a leader in development and validation of methods for assessment of human body composition. Dr. Lukaski was elected to Fellowship in the American College of Sports Medicine, Human Biology Council and the Society of Nutrition for Latin America.