Clinical Sports Nutrition by Vicki Deakin

Clinical Sports Nutrition by Vicki Deakin

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Offers a practical and clinical reference that provides sports nutrition information. In this book, each chapter contains specific reviews followed by practice tips. It also includes contributions come from the leading academics, physicians and sports dieticians in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Finland.

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Clinical Sports Nutrition by Vicki Deakin

Clinical Sports Nutrition is a complete practical and clinical reference that provides state-of-the-art sports nutrition information. Each chapter contains specific reviews followed by practice tips. Contributions come from the leading academics, physicians and sports dieticians in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Finland. The Fourth edition has been substantially revised. In particular, it provides valuable new information on the female athlete triad; the 2005 ACSM/IOC position statement; exercise and the immune system; antioxidants and the athlete; food services for athletes and nutrition for travel.
Louise Burke, PhD, BSc, Grad Dip Diet, FSMA, FACSM Louise has been the Head of the Department of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institue of Sport since 1990 and has over 25 years experience in counselling and educating athletes. She has been appointed as a Visiting Professor of Sports Nutrition at Deakin University in Melbourne where she is involved in the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate education in Sports Nutrition. Her research interests include post-exercise recovery, nutritional ergogenic aids, carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise, and fluid needs in sport. She has produced a number of education resources for athletes, coaches, students and practitioners, including best-selling books. She was appointed as the Dietitian to the Australia Olympic Team for the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and is a Fellow of Sports Dietitians Australia. Vicki Deakin, MSc, BSc, Dip T, Grad Dip Nutr Diet, APD Vicki is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra and convenes the undergraduate course in Human Nutrition and post graduate course in Sports Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a member of the Population Health Research team at the GADI Research Centre and Sports Dietitian with the ACT Academy of Sport in Canberra. Her involvement with elite athletes dates back to her initiation of the nutrition services at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1985. She is passionate about enhancing professional education opportunities in sports nutrition for coaches and has developed a distance course for the Australian Coaching Council to facilitate this process. Her research interests include iron deficiency, dietary survey methods, and determining barriers and facilitators that affect food choice and physical activity behaviours in different population groups.
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ISBN 13 9780070277205
ISBN 10 0070277206
Titre Clinical Sports Nutrition
Auteur Vicki Deakin
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Mcgraw-Hill Education / Australia
Année de publication 2009-11-19
Nombre de pages 850
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