Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780226265452
Subjects: Dietetics & nutrition; Human growth & development; Reproductive medicine; Women's studies; Health & Fitness; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Health/Fitness; Infertility; Women's Health - General; Health & Fitness / Women's Health; General; Women's Studies - General; Body composition; Fertility, Human; Human reproduction; Infertility, Female
First sentence: Since the dawn of human history, the symbols of female fertility have been fat, very fat-particularly in the places where the female sex hormone, estrogen, stores fat.
Description: Frisch explains how and why a "critical fatness" is important ot a woman's reproductive health.