Walking Games and Activities or Dietary Reference Intakes for Water Potassium Sodium Chloride and Sulfate

Walking Games and Activities

Author: June Irene Decker

"Walking Games and Activities is the first book to combine the concepts of fitness and walking as a vehicle for games. It's a one-stop shop for teachers and activity leaders who want to teach walking in a fun way but aren't sure how to begin." "This book provides 40 practical, easy-to-teach walking games and activities, including: learning activities that reinforce basic health, nutrition, and safety concepts; games that combine fitness and problem solving; games that emphasize cooperation; and highly aerobic games." "The book reduces your preparation time by providing detailed instructions, teaching tips, pre-planned units, sample walking units, mini-lectures on topics such as walking form and nutrition, and tips for inclusion. For each activity the book presents everything you need to implement a successful game: objectives; safety tips; suggested grade levels; facility requirements; equipment needs; instructions for organizing the students; mini-lecture(s) that complement the game or activity; a step-by-step description of the playing area, rules and regulations, and scoring procedures; a worksheet with exercises for students to complete during or after the activity; and teaching tips and variations." The wide variety of games provides many ways to get students excited about walking. A game/activity finder at the front of the book makes it easy for teachers to find the right game for every situation. The games contain variations that teachers can use to fit different age categories, and the walking unit suggestions include guidelines for elementary, middle, high school, and college students.

See also: Health Program Planning or Napoleon as a General

Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate

Author: Institute of Medicin

"The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people. This volume, the sixth in a series of reports presenting dietary reference values for the intakes of nutrients by Americans and Canadians, establishes nutrient recommendations for health maintenance and the reduction of chronic disease risk." Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate discusses the role of water, potassium, sodium, chloride, and sulfate in human physiology and health. The major findings in this book include the establishment of Adequate Intakes for total water (drinking water, beverages, and food), potassium, sodium, and chloride and the establishment of Tolerable Upper Intake levels for sodium and chloride. The book makes research recommendations for information needed to advance the understanding of human requirements for water and electrolytes, as well as adverse effects associated with the intake of excessive amounts of water, sodium, chloride, potassium, and sulfate. This book will be an invaluable reference for dietitians, nutritionists, and other health practitioners and researchers in government, academia, and industry.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to dietary reference intakes	21
2	Overview and methods	37
3	A model for the development of tolerable upper intake levels	50
4	Water	73
5	Potassium	186
6	Sodium and chloride	269
7	Sulfate	424
8	Applications of dietary reference intakes for electrolytes and water	449
9	A research agenda	465
App	Origin and framework of the development of dietary reference intakes
App	Predictions of daily water and sodium requirements
App	U.S. dietary intake data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994
App	U.S. dietary intake data for water and weaning foods from the continuing survey of food intakes by individuals, 1994-1996, 1998
App	Canadian dietary intake data for adults from ten provinces, 1990-1997
App	U.S. water intake and serum osmolality data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994
App	U.S. total water intake data by frequency of leisure time activity from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994
App	Dose-response effects of sodium intake on blood pressure
App	U.S. serum electrolyte concentration data from the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994
App	Options for dealing with uncertainties
App	Acknowledgements
App	Biographical sketches of panel members