Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders

Nourishing Dance is a comprehensive guide to nutrition, body image, and eating disorders for dancers, written by an insider with expertise from an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. It offers practical approaches to help dancers fuel optimally, nurture a peaceful relationship with food, and promote positive and resilient body image. The book addresses the prevalence of under-fueling, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and disordered eating among dancers and emphasizes the importance of improving their health and well-being for the art form to thrive. It provides valuable information for parents, teachers, staff, choreographers, leadership, athletic trainers, coaches, and healthcare professionals to help make the dance world a healthier and safer place for dancers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nourishing Dance: An Essential Guide on Nutrition, Body Image, and Eating Disorders is a comprehensive resource written with an insider's understanding of the unique needs and pressures of the dance world and the expertise of an eating disorder specialist, dietitian, clinician, and educator. This much-needed resource offers research-based, practical approaches to help dancers fuel optimally, nourish a peaceful relationship with food, and nurture more positive and resilient body image.

Under-fueling, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, and disordered eating are prevalent among dancers, despite their negative impacts on their physical and mental health and performance. Despite the prevalence of these issues in dancers across genres, they have not been adequately addressed in the dance community. Improving dancers' health and well-being is necessary for both dancers and the art form to thrive, and everyone involved in the training and care of dancers can play an important role in this mission.

Nourishing Dance provides essential information on nutrition, body image, and eating disorder prevention to help parents, teachers, staff, choreographers, leadership, athletic trainers, coaches, and healthcare professionals contribute to making the dance world a healthier and safer place for dancers.

Weight: 380g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032432113