Having health at your fingertips

The Encyclopedia of Exercise, Sport and Health
By Dr Peter Brukner, Dr Karim Khan and John Kron. Allen and Unwin, $45, 501p.
Reviewer: LS Rachel Irving

Whether you want to know which foods to eat in training, which cereals provide the best GI levels or how to prevent injuries, this is the all-in-one book that will help get you on your way and keep you there.

The Encyclopedia of Exercise, Sport and Health is truly a book with the lot – it will even tell you how far is too far for your children to be running and explains conditions such as exercise induced asthma.

The book is written by three of Australia’s leading authorities on sports medicine – one of them, Dr Peter Brukner, was the team manager of the Australian athletics team at the Sydney Olympics.

It is comprehensive, interesting and easy to follow in a simple A to Z format.

The book uses non-technical language and its more than 2000 entries answer questions on health and
fitness related aspects of exercise and sport.

It also has photographs and simple anatomical line drawings to help explain different topics.

This book would be just as valuable a tool for the health or sport professional as it would be for the average person. It even includes an easy-to-follow table of CPR/EAR under Medical Emergencies.

It is refreshing to find a reference point that has everything in the one place – it means that instead of needing half a dozen different books and two hours on the Internet to find things, it is now all at your
fingertips.

Full of interesting facts and lots of tips, The Encylopedia of Exercise, Sport and Health gets two thumbs up.

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