Clinical Sports NutritionLouise Burke, Vicki Deakin The area of sports nutrition is one of the fastest growing of the sports sciences. It is now recognised that nutrition has an extremely important role to play in health, but also in human performance. This book has been produced to fill a great need internationally for a scientific textbook on the expanding field of sports nutrition. The book covers general principles of sports nutrition, nutritional needs for special groups, such as overweight athletes and those with iron deficiency, and also specific nutritional problems in sports medicine, such as amenorrhea and stress fractures. |
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Vicki Deakin and Karen Inge | 16 |
CHAPTER 13 | 29 |
Assessment of nutritional | 38 |
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