Nutrition and Sport

Nutrition and Sport is essential reading for elite athletes, coaches and all concerned with optimum athletic performance, nutritionists, dietitians and healthcare professionals, and physical education professionals.

Exercise and diet are major factors in current healthcare policies. Maximisation of the health benefits of exercise or of sporting performance will only be achieved with optimum nutrition. Nutrition and Sport covers four main themes:

• Nutritional preparation for competition
• Nutrition and the female performer
• Exercise, oxidant stress and ageing
• Nutrition, exercise and the young person

Contents

Theme 1 - Nutritional Preparation for Competition

• Nutrition and Sports Performance - C Williams
• Fluid and Electrolyte Loss and Replacement in Exercise - RJ Maughan et al
• Glycogen Utilisation and Resynthesis: New Approaches to the Study of Human Muscle - IA Macdonald et al
• Lipids and Performance - JF Andrews

Theme 2 - Nutrition and the Female Performer

• Resting Energy Expenditure and the Effects of Body Weight Control in Elite Lightweight Oarswomen - Y Koutedakis and PJ Pacy
• The Role of Dietary Calcium and Exercise in Osteoporosis - NM Murphy

Theme 3 - Exercise, Oxidant Stress and Ageing

• Free Radicals, Antioxidant Nutrients and Exercise - N Haramaki and L Packer

• Exercise, Muscle Damage and Antioxidants - MJ Jackson

• Oxidant Stress, Exercise and Antioxidant Enzymes - JJ Strain
• Exercise, Iron and Riboflavin - DI Thurnham

Theme 4 - Nutrition, Exercise and the Young Person

• Nutritional Habits in Athletes with Special Reference to the Young - WHM Saris
• Energy Expenditure, Physical Activity and Fitness in Children and Adolescents - MBE Livingstone
• Sport, Health and Nutrition in Northern Ireland Adolescents - CAG Boreham et al

Workshop Report

• Nutrition and Sport - Implications for Dietitians and Coaches - J Holmes

Abstracts

• Nutritional Knowledge and Supplement Practices of Athletes - AC Boyd and MBE Livingstone
• The Contribution of Hospitality Managers to Improving Nutritional Intake - L Gowdy et al
• Body Fat In Contemporary Dancers: Comparison of Methodologies - M Khalouha et al
• Are Contemporary Dancers Physically Fit? - M Khalouha et al