NUTRITION IN SPORT

against their carnivorous counterparts and in most cases outperformed them in athletic com- petition (Nieman 1988). Due to their ...

food intake and nutrient composition and reported that most of their daily energy and nutrients come from corn, beans and squash ...

of epidemiological research are traditionally expressed in terms of relative risk, a difficult concept for the athletic and cons ...

tarians who consume only plant proteins could become protein deficient unless they balance their amino acids. Plant proteins are ...

term adherents to a strict uncooked vegan diet called the ‘living food diet’ (LFD). Most food items in this diet are fermented o ...

of athletes suffering from true iron defi- ciency anaemia is therefore difficult to establish (Eichner 1988). Further debates ha ...

exercise increases zinc loss from the body (Dressendorfer & Socklov 1980; Haralambie 1981; Singh et al.1990; Clarkson & ...

purely vegan diet may also be low in vitamin D, which will further impair calcium absorption and utilization. In an interesting ...

cantly decreased in the vegetarian group. In com- parison, seven of nine women in the omnivorous group maintained ovulatory cycl ...

induce production of sex hormone-binding globulin in the liver and in this way influence sex hormone metabolism and biological e ...

non-vegetarian and 8 non-Seventh Day Adven- tist, non-vegetarian males. Fasting blood samples and 3-day dietary intakes were obt ...

however, when dealing with an athlete who is a vegetarian. Bone mineral densitiy should be measured and adequate amounts of calc ...

and omnivorous women. Journal of Steroid Biochem- istry 24 , 289–296. Adlercreutz, H., Fotsis, T., Bannwart, C. et al.(1986b) De ...

James, W.P.T., Branch, W.J. & Southgate, D.A.T. (1978) Calcium binding by dietary fibre.Lanceti, 638. Janelle, K.C. & Ba ...

Introduction Diabetes mellitus is a disease of abnormal regula- tion of glucose metabolism, resulting in an elevated blood gluco ...

mation of adenosine triphosphate, which fuels muscle contraction, increases enormously (New- sholme & Leech 1983). The forma ...

concentration of glucose in the blood causes a release of insulin from the b-cells in the pancreas. Insulin binds to its recepto ...

concentrations are required to remove glucose, and in line with this, highly trained people have lower circulating insulin level ...

Henriksson 1992). Too high a glucose concentra- tion may be a result of a low concentration of insulin. Exercise in under-insuli ...

is therefore required that glucose, which can be rapidly absorbed, is available when IDDM athletes perform exercise training, to ...