NUTRITION IN SPORT

Schutz, Y., Flatt, J.P. & Jequier, E. (1989) Failure of dietary fat intake to promote fat oxidation: a factor favoring the d ...

Introduction Spectators perceive the life of the international athlete as glamorous and exciting, but the travel involved in tra ...

availability and food safety. Jet-lag, risk of dehy- dration, body mass changes and food allergies were also identified as chall ...

bars. Other athletes travel with sufficient food to meet all of their needs and with cooking equip- ment which makes it possible ...

increased loss of water from the respiratory tract and through skin. Drinking fluids before, during and after travel is essentia ...

content may be followed by a feeling of drowsi- ness. Thus, what and when an athlete eats may influence the severity and duratio ...

sidered safe. However, when in doubt, remem- ber the phrase, ‘Boil it, cook it, peel it or forget it’ (Mayo Clinic Health Letter ...

immune system. A food allergen is the part of the food that stimulates the immune system of a food-allergic individual and a sin ...

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Drs Louis Burke, JiDi Chen, Mikael Fogelholm, Michael Hamm, Jon Vanderhoof, Rob ...

Introduction The primary goal of athletic training is to enhance performance and to peak at the right moment. To push the perfor ...

1 Mechanical overtraining. 2 Metabolic overtraining or overreaching. 3 Overtraining syndrome or staleness. Mechanical overtraini ...

Overtraining syndrome or staleness When the central nervous system cannot cope any more with the total amount of stress, a dys- ...

preferentially observed in endurance athletes (Lehmannet al. 1993). The characteristics of the parasympathetic form of the overt ...

overload training in endurance sports. European Journal of Applied Physiology 64 , 335–344. Israel, S. (1958) Die Erscheinungsfo ...

Introduction The relationship between nutrition and exercise has been a major scientific interest area for over 150 years. With ...

(Febbraioet al. 1996b). Such responses are likely to alter substrate utilization during exercise. Substrate utilization during e ...

ingestion during exercise (Costill & Hargreaves 1992), since this would provide necessary glucose while allowing for optimal ...

feine (Vallerand et al. 1989) or ephedrine, caffeine and theophylline (Vallerand et al. 1993) results in a significant increase ...

literature suggests that exercise and heat stress results in a shift towards increased carbohydrate catabolism. The increase in ...

intensity of exercise is moderate, resulting in a relatively low rate of endogenous heat produc- tion, or the exercise is interm ...