Sports Medicine And Athlete's Nutritional Needs. Advice About Supplements.

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Nutrition Needs of Athletes. Advice on Supplements

DIETITIANS OF CANADA and AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION RELEASE JOINT POSITION PAPER

Supports appropriate nutrition for athletes, citing energy needs, fluid intake, timing, and expert advice on supplements.

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), in conjunction with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and Dietitians of Canada, has released a joint position statement, Nutrition and Athletic Performance. Taking the position that athletic performance, physical activity and recovery from exercise are enhanced by optimal nutrition, the paper recommends appropriate selection of fluids and food, timing of intake and careful supplement choices.

The joint statement, published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise®, the official monthly journal of ACSM, addresses critical areas of interest, which include the composition of an athlete's diet, energy balance and body composition, as well as special situations like supplement use. The paper makes general recommendations for normally active persons, male endurance athletes, and men and women athletes involved in weight-class sports. Athletes and their health care professionals will find guidance about negative energy balance, how low food intake can contribute to energy drain, and the resulting possibility of compromise to reproductive and bone health.

Body composition is often part of the perception of optimal exercise performance. The joint position stand notes that some sports dictate that athletes make changes in body weight and composition that may not be optimal for the athlete.

The paper warns against dropping below five percent body fat for males and 12 per cent for female athletes. A description of body composition assessment techniques is accompanied by the error rates of each, leading to the advice that individual athletes should aim for a range rather than a specific percentage.

The paper states that although carbohydrates, proteins and fats all contribute to the energy burned during athletic performance, data are not available to suggest that an athlete needs a diet substantially different from that recommended for the general population. Both the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Nutrition Recommendations for Canadians state that 55-58 per cent of energy should come from carbohydrate, 12-15 per cent from protein and 25-30 per cent from fat. Specific guidelines for individual energy components should be based on body size, weight, body composition, the sport and gender of the athlete.

Further, increasing protein intake probably won't add to lean tissue; there is a limit to the rate at which protein tissue can be accrued. Branched chain amino acids have not yet tested consistently, so their use is not recommended for performance enhancement.. Fat intake should not be severely restricted; there is no data suggesting a performance benefit in consuming a diet with less than 15 per cent of energy from fat, compared with 20-25 per cent of energy from fat.

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