Sports Nutrition Understanding Dietary and Physiological Effects on the Human Body

by Tyzbir, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781621311478
• ISBN10: 1621311473
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Summary

Sports Nutrition translates complex anatomical and biochemical concepts into easy to understand, easy to learn truths about how the body functions and adapts to different dietary and physiological conditions. The text explains how specific dietary recommendations for athletes will improve strength and increase efficiency in athletic performance. The material covers the following important topics:

• Basic nutrition
• Energy expenditure during resistance and endurance exercise
• Dietary recommendations during training
• Timing and composition of pre- and post-competition meals
• Use of nutritional supplements
• The needs of specific athletic groups such as diabetic athletes, older athletes, and women athletes

Sports Nutrition provides practical information for competitive athletes and those wishing to incorporate nutrition into an active, healthy lifestyle.

Author Biography

Robert S. Tyzbir Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, who began teaching courses such as Obesity, Weight Control, & Fitness, Sports Nutrition, Advanced Nutrition, and Nutritional Biochemistry in 1973. His enthusiastic, stimulating teaching style-coupled with his belief that research and creative, quality teaching go hand in hand-has earned him the 1988 Joseph E. Carrigan Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the 1990 UVM Alumni Association's George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, the 2004 U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2007 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award in the category of Full Professor. Dr. Tyzbir is known internationally for his research on diet-induced, hormone-mediated alterations in intermediary metabolism and, more recently, he has begun to investigate the link between people's attitudes about eating and exercise and their body size, shape, and composition.