Friday, November 6, 2009

Nutritional Supplements For Athletes

Serious athletes don't need reminding of the importance of adequate nutrition and sports supplements.
What they do need is reliable, unbiased and up-to-date information on dietary Best Practice - particularly nutritional sports supplements, a subject on which it's rare to find independent, evidence-based advice.
Taking the wrong sports supplements is not just an unnecessary expense. It can actually undermine your performance - and even damage your long-term health.
Get all the facts you need for optimum nutrition!
Nutritional Supplements - Boosting Your Performance is a timely guide for serious athletes written by Peak Performance's resident nutrition guru, Andrew Hamilton.
In this 95-page workbook Andy dissects the major current debates in sports nutrition, analyses the very latest scientific findings - then spells out in plain English their significance for the serious athlete. …
It's a rare opportunity to assess the latest sports nutrition thinking for yourself, and decide how best to integrate it into your training and conditioning.
Read our brand new report today and here are some of the facts you'll learn:
which common supplements really work, and how they benefit you. And… which ones may be a complete waste of your money.
What's behind the three brand new supplements that have the sports science community in such a lather - could they really be as good as they appear?
which natural foods can boost your body's immune systems and keep respiratory and other illnesses at bay - even during the most challenging training periods. Bottom line: you can train harder without fear of losing valuable time because of colds and flu.
why iron deficiency is so common amongst athletes - and why you may be suffering from this performance-inhibiting ailment without you or your doctor being aware of it.
how you can adjust your daily diet to make sure you get the most out of your food intake - and boost your sports performance.
Good nutrition is just as important as good training techniques. Click here for all the latest sport nutrition research!
Iron Deficiency and Anaemia in Athletes - why blood tests often fail to detect this common problem
Most athletes know that iron is a mineral required for the formation of the red blood cells used to transport oxygen to hard-working muscles. And that insufficient iron causes anaemia, which is characterised by fatigue, listlessness and a general lack of energy.
They also know that a proper diet aimed at maintaining iron status, and checking red blood cell or haemoglobin (Hb) levels, are vital for peak performance.
However, most athletes are far less aware of the fact that iron is one of the most difficult minerals to absorb, and that sports players are especially vulnerable to iron depletion through training-induced losses, especially if their event involves endurance work.
To make matters worse, the latest ways of measuring iron indicate that that it is perfectly possible to have a healthy blood Hb count while at the same time suffering from depleted levels of tissue iron. And, if that weren't enough, recent research has demonstrated that this tissue iron depletion impairs the ability of the body to adapt to endurance training.
In Nutritional Supplements - Boosting Your Performance we address the central question of how to accurately identify the problem of anaemia. Recent studies show that conventional blood tests may be inadequate measures of iron status. Consequently, athletes may be iron deficient at a cellular level - unknown to them, their coaches or even their medical advisors.
We report on a new US study that looks at the implications of tissue iron deficiency for both sports performance and post-training adaptations.
And we reveal a NEW marker of iron status that is a more accurate indicator of iron levels in athletes than the blood tests doctors typically

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