Robert Wildman – författare

Building upon the successful first edition, the NEW second edition of Sports and Fitness Nutrition provides students and practitioners the theoretical and practical understanding of how nutrients affect health and athletic performance.Appropriate for advanced nutrition students, sport nutritionists, exercise science students, as well as professionals in the health and wellness fields, Sports and Fitness Nutrition helps the reader understand how nutrition can play an integral role in enhancing training, recovery, preventing injury, improving optimal strength to body weight ratios, as well as maintaining general health and wellness.Written to reflect current research, Sports and Fitness Nutrition begins with a foundational Chapter on our current health, nutrition, and exercise status and major initiatives for improving them. A comprehensive and applicable review of the anatomy and physiology of exercise is then provided. Now available in print and eBook formats, Sports and Fitness Nutrition: Addresses all the macro and micro nutrients and how each can influence health, exercise and athletic performance. Examines energy balance, body weight, endurance conditioning, strength training, and supplements that can help. Brings everything together with a sport specific Chapter that covers both recommended training protocols and nutritional intake to enhance performance.Provides current research and comprehensive coverage but also summarizes the material into practical applications and framework by using key points and review sections to ensure material comprehension. Features the latest nutritional guidelines reflecting Dietary Reference Intakes, USDA Food Guide Pyramid, and Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Use this valuable book to make better food/diet/nutrition supplement choices for your clients (and yourself)!The Nutritionist provides an overview of the basic concepts involved in nourishing the human body in an organized and progressive first-person question-and-answer format. Its eminently readable style and easy-to-understand graphics will enhance your comprehension of applied nutrition topics such as energy nutrients, vitamins, and minerals as well as energy metabolism and body composition, exercise, heart disease, and cancers.Healthcare professionals, personal trainers, nutritionists, and lay readers will all find valuable, easily understood information in The Nutritionist. The book lays the foundation with a review of the basic concepts of body composition and related scientific concepts, which are invaluable in understanding the nutrition information that follows. It examines molecules, chemical reactions, energy, acids and bases (pH), free radicals and oxidation, and water solubility. With this foundation, concepts such as lipoproteins (LDL, HDL, blood cholesterol), antioxidants, energy, metabolism, body composition, exercise, heart disease, and cancer are easily understandable.This unique book’s first-person, question-and-answer style brings you quick access to current information about nutrition and:energy metabolism energy nutrients weight control body composition exercise vitamins and minerals nutrition supplements osteoporosis diabetes mellitus heart disease cancer and more!The Nutritionist provides straightforward answers to basic questions about the body and how to nourish it. Use it to make better choices for your clients and to help them reach the performance and health goals they set.