NUTRITION IN SPORT

recommended level of 0.016. The results of a study by Huang et al.(1998) provide recent evi- dence that the level of 0.016 mg vi ...

(Reckeret al.1992). The combination of subopti- mal calcium intakes by female athletes (Chen et al.1989; Steen et al.1995; Peter ...

effects of trace mineral supplementation, par- ticularly magnesium, zinc, and copper; while Clarkson and Haymes (1994) recommend ...

researcher who are interested in the nutritional needs of the female athlete. Since macronutrient dietary guidelines for athlete ...

Related Diseases in Europe.WHO Regular Publication, European Series, no. 24, WHO, Copenhagen. Johnston, C.C., Miller, J.Z., Slem ...

Tarnopolsky, L.J., MacDougall, J.D., Atkinson, S.A., Tarnopolsky, M.A. & Sutton, J.R. (1990) Gender dif- ferences in substra ...

Introduction Unlike most adults, children naturally engage in spontaneous, vigorous physical activity. It is postulated that thi ...

can lead to extreme behaviour. A recent study of American adolescent athletes found that over a third were taking vitamin/minera ...

always commence with ‘simple’ dieting. In a comprehensive review of eating disorders in young athletes, Wilmore (1995) concluded ...

Influence of exercise and diet on a child’s growth and development Some authors (Martinez et al. 1993; Lindholm et al.1995) sugg ...

et al. 1989), suggesting that the short stature of the elite gymnast is determined largely by genetic rather than training and n ...

exercise are carbohydrate derived from muscle glycogen or blood glucose from hepatic glycogen stores, and fatty acids which may ...

directed eating from the child’s parent or guardian, inherent nutritional knowledge with respect to carbohydrate was poor. In a ...

peratures during activities such as walking and running (MacDougall et al. 1983). In an attempt to control for differences in st ...

1988; Bar-Or et al. 1992) suggest that most of the benefit was obtained through the addition of NaCl. A limitation to these find ...

are susceptible to under-reporting of nutritional information and for the absence of selected micronutrients from the food table ...

pretation of the data with normal growth charts is confounded by the effects of biological age (BA): you would expect individual ...

young athletes (TOYA) study. Pediatric Exercise Science 8 , 310–327. Baxter-Jones, A.D.G., Helms, P., Baines Preece, J. & Pr ...

physical dimensions of children. Annals of Human Biology 3 , 141–147. Malina, R.M. (1983) Menarche in athletes: a synthesis and ...

Introduction All athletes at some time in their career look at alternative ways of eating to reach their ath- letic potential. W ...