Edited by William E. Garrett, Jr., and Donald T. Kirkendall. 980 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000. $149. ISBN 0-683-03421-9.
"Stop smoking, eat more fiber and less fat, and get more exercise"— this is the physician's mantra of the millennium. Whatkind of exercise? How often? What's a good sport or exercisefor me? A litany of questions comes from an increasingly sophisticatedpopulation fed on an intensive Internet diet. Sports medicineused to be fairly simple, a matter of taking care of injuredathletes. No longer. We are expected to know not only that fluidreplacement is important but also which fluid-replacement drinkis the best. We know that osteoporosis causes problems and now,in the face of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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