Nutrition for Sport and Exercise 2nd Edition by Marie Dunford and J. Andrew Doyle integrates nutrition and exercise physiology principles, emphasizing scientific reasoning and examining research to light up the evidence for current nutritional recommendations.
In addition, the text helps you translate these nutrition recommendations to particular plans for the suitable quantity and type of foods, beverages, and/or supplements to support training, performance, and recovery. The authors carefully illustrate the hyperlinks between train, nutrition, and, the last word goals, optimum performance and health.
Author emphasizes the scientific foundation for sports nutrition suggestions through the use of present research of educated athletes to assist college students interpret and apply scientific data. It integrates nutrition and train physiology by explaining basic physiology ideas, the physiological responses and adaptations the body has to exercise coaching and the consequences of coaching on nutritional requirements.
Providing scientific and practical information about the use of dietary supplements to enhance training and improve performance, this text addresses the legality, ethics, safety and effectiveness of a variety of supplements popular with athletes. It emphasizes the development of a comprehensive nutrition plan (i.e. nutrition periodization) to meet the individual needs of athletes in training.
Author shows the translation of broad nutritional recommendations and guidelines to specific foods, beverages, snacks and meals with practical, real-life examples for many different sports. Two chapters are devoted to the topic of energy to explore difficult concepts in detail, giving students more time to grasp this fundamental information. This book adopts a holistic approach based on function for the key nutrients carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and water.
It also includes chapters on diet planning, disordered eating and exercise patterns in athletes, and lifelong fitness and health, so that these topics can be covered in more depth. Special features in each chapter include: Internet caf� (websites offering sound sports nutrition information); Keeping it in perspective (how each topic fits into the big picture); and Spotlight on (additional coverage of supplements and other topics and examples of real-life athletes). Pre- and Post-Test quizzes, Self-Test chapter questions, summaries, references, and glossary included.
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