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Sports Nutrition Basics from Training to Competition
Sports nutrition and eating to fuel your workouts and improve sports performance can be complicated. In order to simplify the role of nutrition in sports performance, it's often easier to break it down into phases. Get the basics on sports nutrition.

Eating for Cold Weather Exercise - How to Eat for Cold Weather Exercise
Recommendations and tips for eating for winter sports and cold weather exercise.

Eating Before Exercise - Foods for Athletic Competition
What should you eat before exercise? Whether you are eating before an athletic competition, or a basic training workout, what you eat can make a difference in both your performance and recovery.

Weight Loss Tip - How Diet Choices Help Weight Loss and Weight Management
Weight loss isn't easy not matter if you are an athlete or a couch potato. Here are some diet strategies for losing body fat and maintaining a weight lose.

Energy Pathways for Exercise - How Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein Fuels Exercise
There are three main pathways to convert nutrients to energy (ATP) for exercise and it is the intensity and duration of the exercise that determines which method gets used.

Sports Nutrition - How Carbohydrate Provides Energy for Exercise - Carbs
All the energy we need for life as well as for exercise comes from the food we eat and beverages we drink. These nutrients are commonly broken into three classes: carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Each category of food is important for health and we should all consume foods from each category. The ratios in which we need to consume these foods, however, is often the topic of a debate.

Sports Nutrition - Protein Needs for Athletes
Athletes need protein primarily to repair and rebuild muscle that is broken down during exercise and to help optimizes carbohydrate storage in the form of glycogen.

Glutamine (L-Glutamine) Supplements
Athletes take glutamine supplements in order to prevent muscle breakdown and to improve immune system functioning.

Fighting Fat Gain: Strategies That Can Make a Difference
Tips for athlete's who want to avoid weight gain or lose weight.

Nutrition Tips for Strength Training
Sports nutrition tips for strength training and muscle building. Learn what the experts say about protein, fat and carbohydrate when it comes to building muscles and strength.

Sports Nutrition - How Fat Provides Energy for Exercise
Fat provides an athlete's main fuel source during long duration, low to moderate intensity exercise and endurance sports like marathons and ultra-events. But even during high intensity exercise, where carbohydrate is the athlete's main fuel, fat is needed to help access the stored carbohydrate (glycogen).

High Protein Diets and Sports Performance
Are high protein diets, like south beach and atkins, right for athletes?

Nutrition Tips for Vegetarian Athletes
Vegetarians must take extra care to avoid deficiencies of iron, zinc, and B12, which can hurt exercise and strength training performance.

Yo-Yo Dieting May Weaken Immune System
Research finds a link between Yo-Yo dieting and weakened immunity.

B-Vitamins and Athletic Performance
Vitamins are essential for the body to function properly, but there may be a link between the B-vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, B-12 and folate) and performance in high-level athletes.

High Protein Diets Cause Dehydration, Even in Trained Athletes
Research that showed high protein diets silently caused dehydration in endurance athletes, individuals whose training gave them a greater capacity to adapt to dehydration than the average person