Tasting Food Tasting Freedom or Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

Author: Sidney W Mintz

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.




Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.
"A buffet of information."


— Gael McCarthy, The New York Times
"A collection of thoughtful. . . . essays. [Mintz's] writing is intellectually lively and stylistically colorful."


—Colman Andrews, Saveur

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Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher's Guide

Author: National Association for Sport and Physi

Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher's Guide, Second Edition, provides the clear philosophical foundation for the Physical Best program and presents a framework for implementing a health-related physical education curriculum to promote lifelong fitness. The only text of its kind in the field of physical education, this revised edition features a streamlined format to offer the latest information on important health-related physical fitness teaching and physical education issues. Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Part I	Foundations of Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity	1
Chapter 1	Introduction to Physical Best	3
Chapter 2	Physical Activity Behavior and Motivation	13
Chapter 3	Basic Training Principles	39
Chapter 4	Nutrition	49
Part II	Components of Health-Related Fitness	61
Chapter 5	Aerobic Fitness	63
Chapter 6	Muscular Strength and Endurance	83
Chapter 7	Flexibility	105
Chapter 8	Body Composition	121
Part III	Curriculum and Teaching Methods	135
Chapter 9	Curriculum Development for Health-Related Physical Fitness Education	137
Chapter 10	Teaching Styles and Strategies	159
Chapter 11	Including Everyone	179
Part IV	Foundations of Assessment in Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity	199
Chapter 12	Principles of Assessment	201
Chapter 13	Assessing Health-Related Physical Fitness	221
Chapter 14	Assessing Fitness Knowledge, Self-Responsibility, and Attitudes	241
Appendix A	Worksheets and Reproducibles	257
Appendix B	Nutrient Content Claims	273
Appendix C	Exercises for Prepuberty	275
Appendix D	Alternatives for Questionable Exercises	285
Appendix E	Body Mass and Composition Measures	291
Appendix F	CDC's Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity Among Young People	297
Appendix G	Student Asthma Action Card	303
	Glossary	305
	References	313
	Index	323
	About Physical Best	335