Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection

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