tailieunhanh - Sách: CLINICS IN SPORTS MEDICINE

Sports nutrition is often the missing piece in the athlete’s training regimen. The attention and effort are directed toward optimizing strength, speed, stamina, and recovery, but too often, nutrition is not the priority, resulting in performance impairment rather than enhancement. Sports medicine professionals need to be able to educate athletes on not only the what (food and drink), but also the why, when, where, and how much to consume. Athletes are bombarded with nutrition information, but much of what they read can be contradictory, confusing, or incorrect | ELSEVIER SAUNDERS Clin Sports Med 26 2007 ix CLINICS IN SPORTS MEDICINE Foreword Mark D. Miller MD Consulting Editor Here is an issue that is sure to whet your appetite sports nutrition Ever wonder how to plan a pregame meal or how to encourage your athletes to eat and drink the right stuff Whatever happened to the female athlete triad and does it just apply to anorexics How about the freshman 15 does it apply to athletes How about supplements Are we making sure our athletes eat right Is there any truth to the axiom that you are what you eat Well if you don t know read on Mark D. Miller MD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Division of Sports Medicine University of Virginia Health System PO Box 800753 Charlottesville VA 22903-0753 USA E-mail address mdm3p@ 0278-5919 07 - see front matter doi 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ELSEVIER SAUNDERS Clin Sports Med 26 2007 xi-xii CLINICS IN SPORTS MEDICINE Preface Leslie Bonci MPH RD LDN CSSD Guest Editor Sports nutrition is often the missing piece in the athlete s training regimen. The attention and effort are directed toward optimizing strength speed stamina and recovery but too often nutrition is not the priority resulting in performance impairment rather than enhancement. Sports medicine professionals need to be able to educate athletes on not only the what food and drink but also the why when where and how much to consume. Athletes are bombarded with nutrition information but much of what they read can be contradictory confusing or incorrect. As important as hydration is to performance most athletes fall short of recommendations. Ganio and colleagues provide a new look at this issue and put to rest some of the fallacies surrounding hydration. Athletes know that carbohydrates are important to optimize performance and recovery but there is a lot of controversy surrounding protein requirements. Tipton and Witard present the theoretical .