1st Edition
Body Composition in Sport, Exercise and Health
Chapter 1. The Concept of Body Composition and its Applications - Arthur Stewart Chapter 2. Laboratory Methods of Body Composition Analysis - Catherine Rolland Chapter 3. Portable Methods of Body Composition Analysis - Catherine Rolland and Yvonne Mulholland Chapter 4. Physique: Phenotype, Somatotype and 3D Scanning - Lindsay Carter and Arthur Stewart Chapter 5. Muscle Tissue - Laura Sutton Chapter 6. Bone Tissue - Laura Sutton Chapter 7. Anthropometric Surrogates for Fatness and Health - Mike Marfell-Jones, Alan Nevill and Arthur Stewart Chapter 8. Body Composition Change - Patria Hume and Arthur Stewart Chapter 9. Body Composition in Chronic Disease and Disability - Vicky L. Goosey-Tolfrey and Laura Sutton Chapter 10. Body Composition: Professional Practice and an Interdisciplinary Toolkit - Laura Sutton and Arthur Stewart
Biography
Arthur D. Stewart has worked in body composition as an editor of the Journal of Sports Sciences, for the International Olympic Committee’s working group on body composition, and as criterion anthropometrist and Vice President of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry. He has over 60 publications, including his recent research in 3D body scanning at Robert Gordon University, UK.
Laura Sutton completed her PhD in body composition analysis, in the process working with a wide variety of populations including recreational and elite athletes, disability groups, the fire service and the armed forces. Laura currently works as a medical statistician at the University of Liverpool, UK.
