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Hot Topics In Nutrition:  Sports Nutrition

Nutrition is one of several significant factors that can affect your performance as an athlete. Optimal performance also relies on good training, good health, and proper rest.

Nutrition for sports performance includes these components:

  • fluid intake and hydration
  • energy substrates (carbohydrate, protein and fat)
  • vitamin and mineral balance
  • pre-game and recovery meals
  • nutrition for endurance sports

Additional nutrition topics of importance for athletes include:

  • body weight management and body composition
  • effect of alcohol intake on performance
  • supplementation
  • eating problems
  • long-term health

A flier entitled “Nutrition and Sports Performance” can get you started on these topics and can be obtained from Gannett Health Promotion (Level 3) . 

 

The Center for Nutrition in Sport and Human Performance has a great deal of  useful information for athletes. Check out their online newsletter.

 

More information

For individualized information about nutrition and your athletic performance, make an appointment with a CHEP nutritionist at 255-5155.

The following websites are excellent sources of additional information on sports nutrition: