Sports Nutrition

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Sports Nutrition


By Liji Thomas, MD

Sports nutrition is a very highly regarded field of modern sports medicine, which helps athletes to keep their bodies in good condition before, after and during exercise, so as to achieve the optimal performance. In that sense, different nutrients are explored for their potential to optimize athletic performance, especially when engaged in high-intensity sports which involve repetitive activity.

Therefore a competent sports nutritionist must have adequate command over such disciplines as nutrition, including the biochemistry of nutrients and the way they are metabolized during intensive physical activity, exercise physiology and how an athlete’s body differs from the average non-athlete’s in terms of functional performance and resting metabolism, as well as psychological aspects of sports.

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[goatprairie]

I've read a number of articles about the importance of sports nutrition, and I don't doubt good nutrition is important for healthy bodies. How important is the big question.  This is the age of sports science, but if science and nutrition are so elevated now for athletes health, why do so many still get injured? And why are there so many ACL injuries? It's only in the last twenty-thirty years that ACLs have become so prominent.