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Abstract
The national war on obesity has prompted a race among health sector companies for body composition instrumentation that is accurate, easy to use, and will be adopted as cost-effective by doctors used to relying largely on the rule-of-thumb Body Mass Index. Libraries serving science, engineering, and medicine will particularly benefit from a review of recent literature from two somewhat disparate professional groups involved in its development, use and evaluation: the “jocks”-exercise physiologists and sports trainers; and the “docs”-medicine's own obesity specialists, working with medical physicists and biomedical imaging engineers. Although both groups owe a historic debt to the tools and literature of physical anthropology, today, they share common ground mostly in journals of clinical nutrition. Collection development advice involving major reference works, compilations, and practical guides from all three currently contributing communities is provided.