This study was done to examine the relationship between sex and perception of body image
among athletes and nonathletes. A total of 211 men and women athletes and nonathletes …

Since Congress passed Title IX in 1972, which ensured women would have equal
opportunities for interscholastic sports participation in public institutions at the high school …

Although reduced gonadal steroid hormone concentrations appear to play a major role in
lower trabecular bone mineral density (BMD) in women with athletic amenorrhea, dietary …

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1993 Youth Risk Behavior
Surveillance (YRBS) of a sample of US female adolescents (N= 7839) were compared to a …

College athletes are at risk of developing disordered eating and other distorted behavioral
patterns, often because of aesthetic and performance demands of their sports. Gender, links …

An Athletic Image Scale including female physiques with and without muscular definition is
currently in the developmental phase. With shading, contouring, and three-dimensionality …

Elite athletes are exposed to a considerable amount of physical and psychological stress
throughout their entire professional life, but the exploration of the consequences of this …

Maladaptive perfectionism and perceived incompetence are two factors associated with
disordered eating. In this study, we examined whether perceived incompetence moderated …

Female soccer players often have only limited time available to prepare and consume
meals, due to the constraints faced by having to combine training and playing with full-time …

Taste preferences and sensory estimates of sweetness and fat content of 16 dairy stimuli
with varying levels of fat (0%, 3· 5%, 10· 5% and 37· 6%) and sucrose (0%, 5%, 10% and …