The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide Peak Performance for Everyone from Beginners to Gold Medalists

by Dorfman, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780471348085
• ISBN10: 0471348082
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Exercise, train, and compete at your best on a vegetarian diet. Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes and vegetarians. This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, registered dietitian and elite vegetarian athlete Lisa Dorfman provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide includes personal stories of athletes who have made the switch to vegetarian diets from football players and wrestlers to ice skaters and marathoners, some of whom have beaten life-threatening illnesses with the help of this lifestyle. Lisa Dorfman provides a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, easy-to-use charts, and food guides for vegetarians of all types, from the semi-vegetarian to the fruitarian. She also shares the training secrets of seventeen Olympic and world-class athletes who have used their vegetarian diets to achieve peak performance in their careers and optimum health in their lives.

Author Biography

LISA DORFMAN, M.S., R.D., L.M.H.C., is known nationally as The Running Nutritionist®. She competes in marathons and triathlons nationwide and coaches Olympic-level athletes. She runs her own sports nutrition consulting company, Food Fitness International, and has appeared in and written for over 100 publications, including Running Times and Ladies’, Home Journal. She lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Bob Beeten
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
Part One Food as Fuel
The Plant-Based Sports Engine	9	(18)
Nutrition Prescription for Sport: Calculating Energy Needs	27	(12)
Carbohydrates: The Sports Nutrition Base	39	(30)
Protein: The Fitness Powerhouse	69	(16)
Fat Talk	85	(20)
Thirst Quenchers	105	(24)
The Athlete's Lab: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals	129	(28)
Part Two Plant-Based Peak Performance
Supplementing the Sports Machine	157	(28)
Plant-Based Diets: Making the Transition	185	(20)
Competition Time: Plant-Based Diets in Action	205	(56)
Appendixes
A: Vegetarian Athletes' Nutritional Profiles	231	(19)
B: Food Fitness Nutritional Activity Assessment Form	250	(3)
C: Sports and Vegetarian Nutrition Resources	253	(3)
D: References	256	(5)
Index	261