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Body Composition and Physical Performance: Applications For the Military Services.
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Military Nutrition Research; Marriott BM, Grumstrup-Scott J, editors.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1990.
Table of contents
Retention Standards for the Military Services.
Associations Among Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Injury in Men and Women Army Trainees.
Introduction and Background.
Body Composition And Military Performance: Origins Of The Army Standards.
The Relationship Of Body Size And Composition To The Performance Of Physically Demanding Military Tasks.
New Approaches To Body Composition Evaluation And Some Relationships To Dynamic Muscular Strength.
Body Composition and Performance in Relation To Environment.
Body Composition In The Military Services: Standards And Methods.
Effects of Experimental Alterations in Excess Weight On Physiological Responses To Exercise and Physical Performance.
Army Data: Body Composition and Physical Capacity.
Sex Differences and Ethnic/Racial Differences in Body Size and Body Composition.
Critique of the Military's Approach To Body Composition Assessment and Evaluation.
Body Composition, Morbidity, And Mortality.
Accession Standards for the Military Services.
Recent Changes To The U.S. Army Standards For Accession And Retention.
Body Composition Measurement: Accuracy, Validity, and Comparability.
PREFACE.
Conclusions and Recommendations.
Proposed Revisions To Accession (Ar 40-501) And Retention (Ar 600-9) Body Weight And Body Fat Standards.
Biographical Sketches.
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