Description: Foreword, by Robert L. Barbieri Acknowledgments 1. Female Body Fat: Celebrating the Difference 2. Too Little and Too Much Body Fat 3. Female Adolescence: Puberty and Growing Up 4. Eggs, Sperm, "Female Testes," and Other Fancies and Facts about the Reproductive System 5. Historical Guesses: What Hastened or Slowed Menarche? 6. Predicting Menarche: Critical Fatness 7. Pubertal Body Fat--Sex Fat?--A Neat Mechanism for Reproductive Success 8. Physical Activity and Too Little Fat: Ballet Dancers, Swimmers, Runners, and Other Athletes 9. Exercise and Lower Risk of Breast Cancer: The Alumnae Health Study 10. Leptin: A New Hormone Made by Body Fat 11. Population, Food Intake, and Fertility: Old and New Perspectives 12. Fatness, Fertility, and the Body Mass Index: Finding Your "Desirable Weight" Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index

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