Nutrition for Sport is a comprehensive review of sports nutrition with an eye to the aerobic-endurance athlete. Cyclists, runners, triathletes, and walkers will appreciate the down-to-earth practical advice, the debunking of advertising, as well as the detailed explanations and comprehensive reference material provided about every vitamin and mineral.

Learn about:

●   Sport foods--before, during, and after exercise.

●   Foods for energy.

●   Performance-enhancing and performance-robbing substances.

●   Quick, nutritious fast food.

●   Nutritional quackery.

●   Losing weight.

●   How rapid weight changes don't reflect fat losses.

●   Who, what, where, and how: About every vitamin and mineral.

Did you know?

●   Few athletes drink more than 16 ounces an hour; sweat losses can exceed 100 ounces an hour.

●   Just like the glycogen window, there is a fat window.

●   Although sodium is the electrolyte priority for aerobic endurance athlete, calcium and iron loss in sweat ca contribute to deficiency.

●   Many supplements marketed to improve muscle mass are contaminated with anabolic steroids.