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Diet for Dancers: A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control

Diet for Dancers: A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control

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Authors: Robin D. Chmelar, Sally S. Fitt
Publisher: Princeton Book Company
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
Sales Rank: 37141

Media: Paperback
Edition: Rep Sub
Pages: 164
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.5 x 0.4

ISBN: 0916622894
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.20887928
EAN: 9780916622893
ASIN: 0916622894

Publication Date: November 1, 2002
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Product Description
The first diet book based on research with dancers, this guide provides information about proper dietary procedures that will enable people to reach and/or maintain their optimal body weight for dancing. Areas discussed include weight control, individual differences in metabolism, and body composition.



Customer Reviews:   Read 11 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Diet for Dancers: A Complete Guide to Nutrition and Weight Control   October 6, 2008
Catherine Marler (North Dakota)
This book is well worth the price. All dancers will find it very useful..It is a must have.


2 out of 5 stars For adults, with CAUTION   March 2, 2008
Aria Austin (Cupertino, California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Written during the Balanchine era, this book works in a way that can actually encourage an eating disorder or create more motivation for someone who already has one. This comes from someone with an eating disorder. While this book does have interesting information and even a couple pages to identity eating disorders, it's important to keep in mind the time this book was written during a different era in ballet and that the biological information is out of date. I verified that with a medical professional.

The average heights, weights, etc., were also taken from quite a while ago, as far as ballet goes. Different ideals are in place now that then. To strive to be the ideal dancer in this book would be to strive to being too thin by modern ballet standards, which is still pretty damned thin.

An updated edition written in a different way would be a better alternative. Otherwise, this book should only be put into the hands of healthy adults without tendency toward eating disorders.



3 out of 5 stars Diet   December 18, 2007
S. Weiler (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Gives some good info and I felt it really helped me understand about dieting and the dancers body. Full of great information.


4 out of 5 stars Great for non-dancers as well!   July 16, 2007
Lizzy Copas (Midwest, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book helped be understand WHAT kind of exercise I needed to do in order to lose body FAT. I'm not in the "overweight" category, so books that tell you to "just take a walk" or "take the stairs instead of the elevator" aren't the most useful (I already do those things).

I'm not a dancer but I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to go down ONE size, and doesn't need to go down 3 or 4.



3 out of 5 stars Mmmh!   March 19, 2006
Azavache (Hartford County, CT USA)
2 out of 14 found this review helpful

It is a little confuse for young adults, specially if they are not familiar with measurement :-(

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