Monthly Archives: December 2007
Very-Low Calorie Diets
Diets very low in calories (800 calories per day or fewer), including those that have been promoted as having a “protein-sparing effect” (conserving lean tissue), have often been associated with serious medical complications, including cardiac dysrhythmias (irregular heart rate that … Continue reading
Strategies for Weight Maintenance or Weight Loss
To maintain weight, caloric intake must be balanced by caloric expenditure. To lose weight an individual has to achieve a caloric deficit in which the number of calories burned exceeds the number of calories consumed. This is the basic principle … Continue reading
Dietary Strategies that May Help Prevent Overtraining
A number of the physiological and psychological symptoms and signs of overreaching/overstraining have been suggested to be partly due to a chronic energy deficit, an inadequate availability of specific nutrients, or both. This may affect the body’s response to intensified … Continue reading
Role of Nutrition in Central Fatigue and Immune Function
During prolonged exercise, athletes become fatigued. For many years, exercise scientists believed that fatigue was simply related to peripheral muscle glycogen depletion and perhaps the hypoglycemia which may occur during prolonged exercise. However, more recent studies indicated that athletes fatigue … Continue reading