Nutrition and Sports Performance: A Review of the Literature
Authors-Dr. Sachin S. Deshmukh
Keyword-Womens Education Advocacy Educational Reform, Gender Equality in Education, India and Middle East Education, Socio-Cultural Barriers, Grassroots Mobilization, Policy Advocacy for Education, Cultural Resistance and Activism
For every sports person Nutritional Health is essential in order to be able to perform his or her maximum ability. Nutrition is the process of getting food into our body and using it as raw materials for growth, fuel for energy, and vitamins and minerals that keep the body healthy and functioning properly. The foods that we eat provide the energy to the body that needs to function. Sports and nutrition are directly related to each other. Taking into consideration the fact that sportspersons need more energy to carry out their sporting activity effectively, it becomes of prime importance to take care of the nutrition for sports performance. Careful planning and implementation is required, when it comes to athlete sports nutrition. As far as the nutritional diet of sportsperson is concerned, there are lot many things that deserve proper attention like selection of foods, timing of food intake, selection of nutrition supplement and many more. These things are again decided, keeping in mind several factors like the athletes' energy needs, body composition, nutritional needs etc.