New Book is Practical Guide for Keeping a Horse at Optimum Body Condition

Eclipse Press is proud to announce the latest addition to its popular Horse Health Care Library – Understanding Your Horse’s Weight. Knowing whether your horse is overweight and understanding how to manage the problem is crucial to your horse’s well being because of diseases such as laminitis.

Written by Shannon Pratt-Phillips, Ph.D., Understanding Your Horse’s Weight is a practical guide to maintaining your horse’s optimum weight and body condition. Written in an easy-to-understand style, the book takes readers through the step-by-step process of determining whether they have an overweight horse and discusses the best practices for correcting the problem. It also offers insight into the equine diseases directly linked to obesity such as laminitis and insulin resistance. Also written with the underweight horse in mind, Understanding Your Horse’s Weight explains how to put weight on your horse safely and how to maintain the appropriate weight level.

About the author:

Shannon Pratt-Phillips earned her Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in equine nutrition and physiology. She is currently an assistant professor at North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She has done research on equine nutrition and exercise physiology, including glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. Pratt is a regular contributor to the leading monthly publication The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care.

Publication date: December 2009

ISBN: 978-1-58150-212-1 Pages: 109; Bound Size: 6″ x 9″

Retail price: $16.95 Paperback

Available at your local bookstore or from Exclusively Equine

1-800-582-5604 (www.ExclusivelyEquine.com)