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U.S. military personnel are required to adhere to standards of body composition, fitness, and appearance to achieve and maintain readiness—that is, the maintenance of optimum health and performance so they are ready for deployment at any moment. In 1992, the Committee on Military Nutrition Research reviewed the existing standards and found, among other things, that the standards for body composition required for women to achieve an appearance goal seemed to conflict with those necessary to ensure the ability to perform many types of military tasks. This report addresses that conflict, and reviews and makes recommendations about current policies governing body composition and fitness, as well as postpartum return-to-duty standards, Military Recommended Dietary Allowances, and physical activity and nutritional practices of military women to determine their individual and collective impact on the health, fitness, and readiness of active-duty women.

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Institute of Medicine. 1998. Assessing Readiness in Military Women: The Relationship of Body, Composition, Nutrition, and Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/6104.

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368 pages |  8 x 10 | 

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  • Paperback:  978-0-309-06075-2
  • Ebook:  978-0-309-17409-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/6104
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Front Matter i-xvi
Executive Summary 1-24
1 Introduction 25-32
2 Body Composition 33-60
3 Physical Fitness Policies and Programs 61-86
4 Weight Management 87-108
5 Nutritional Concerns of Military Women 109-126
6 Pregnancy and Lactation and Postpartum Return-To-Duty Fitness 127-156
7 Conclusions and Recommendations 157-170
Appendixes 171-172
A Workshop Summary, Agenda, Participants, and Abstracts 173-252
B Practices and Policies Tables 253-262
C Military Occupational Specialty Classification Tables 263-280
D Search Strategy for Literature Review 281-284
E Civilian Inquiry Letter and Table of Responses 285-290
F Abbreviations 291-294
G Bibliography 295-334
H Biographical Sketches 335-338
Index 339-352

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