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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2024796 EAN: 9780471348085 ISBN: 0471348082 Label: John Wiley & Sons Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 270 Publication Date: November 16, 1999 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Studio: John Wiley & Sons Sales Rank: 211925
Rating: - A substanceless dictionary of buzzwords and american faddery
Probably loved for a week by the short term attention span of the average american housewife (sorry, homemaker) this book is full of technical but ultimately usually useless jargon. The book is too focussed on the marathon/endurance athlete (so avoid if you are engaged in any other sports other than ironman tournaments) and excludes discussion of natural foodstuffs that are universally found, to labour advertising space on trendy American 'sport/food supplements', 'sports bars', 'sports drinks' and other US only fads, (sorry did i mean to say products?) Pages are devoted to complex and scientific sounding 'food formulae' (that are in sports practice rarely used) but fails to include large enough examples of non proprietary or non manufactured ... Read More: