Female Athlete Triad
An Awareness and Prevention Program
for Physically Active Females
A collaborative project between NYSPHSAA, NYSED and ADADC. For more information call 631.587.7092.
Philosophical Foundation of the NYSPHSAA Female Athlete Triad Awareness and Prevention Program
Promoting health and preventing health problems are important and valuable services because they enhance individual and team performance and improve the total health of each person.
Total conditioning for athletes includes emotional, social and spiritual growth together with nutrition, physical strength, flexibility and endurance.
Sports organizations must acknowledge the reality that some athletes will experience health-behavior problems that interfere with normal development, impair performance and decrease total health. Therefore, it is essential that sports organizations develop and implement comprehensive and practical systems to resolve those problems.
The NYSPHSAA promotes the proceeding tenets of health at every size:
- There is no ideal body size, shape, or weight that every individual should strive to achieve.
- Self-esteem and body image are strongly linked. Helping people feel good about their bodies and about who they are can help motivate and maintain healthy behaviors.
- Appearance stereotyping is inherently unfair to the individual because it is based on superficial factors over which the individual has little or no control.
- We respect the bodies of others even though they might be quite different from our own.
- Each person is responsible for taking care of his/her body.
- Good health is not defined by body size; it is a state of physical, mental and social well being.
- People of all sizes and shapes can reduce their risk of poor health by adopting a healthy life-style.
- Health promotion programs should celebrate the benefits of a healthy life-style. Programs should be accepting of and sensitive to size diversity. They should promote body satisfaction, and the achievement of realistic and attainable health goals without regard to weight change.
Developed by Joanne P.Ikeda,MA,RD, Nutrition Education Specialist, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3104
(Adapted by the NYSPHSAA Committee on the Female Athlete Triad)
Female Athlete Triad Consortium
| Cathy Gallagher Section XI |
Cynthia Pizzulli, CSW Psychotherapist |
Susan Kessler Administrator |
| Barbara Fisher, PhD Psychologist |
Carol Daub Health Educator |
Lois Chait, MS, RD Food Service |
| Rick Amundson NYSAPHERD |
Jonathan B. Ticker, MD Sports Medicine |
Steven Goldman, MD OB-GYN Associate |
| Michael Dobie Reporter, Newsday |
Herb Freidman Director of Athletics |
Michele Turchiano PE Teacher |
| Anne Dignam Director of Athletics |
William Stern, EdD Director of HPE |
Nancy Butler Athletic Trainer |
| Karen Bath Athletic Trainer |
Kim Bayer Coach |
Erin Blaney Coach |
| Thomas Scandalis, MD Osteopathic Medicine |
Joanna Commander Director of HPEA |
Francis Gizis, PhD Nutrition Chair |
| Sandy Sarcona, MS, RD Internship Director |
Judy Shelton ACTION on TARGET |
Cynthia Devore, MD Pediatrics |
For more information on the Female Athlete Triad please contact Karen Sossin, MS, CDN Nutrition Consultant, 15 Wharf Way, West Islip, NY 11795
631.587.7092 (phone) / 631.321.0537 (fax) or ksossin@aol.com
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