Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition by Craig, Ian; Roberts, Justin;

Short description:

Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition defines health as an underpinning requirement for active pursuit and sporting performance. By focusing on the empowerment of scientists and practitioners who support such individuals, this textbook disseminates academic and experiential knowledge in a thoroughly applied context.

Long description:

Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition: A Health-Feeds-Performance Perspective defines health as an underpinning requirement for active pursuit and sporting performance. By focusing on the empowerment of scientists and practitioners who support such individuals, this new textbook powerfully disseminates academic and experiential knowledge in a thoroughly applied context. The prevailing paradigm that has existed within the academic enquiry of sports nutrition has typically viewed macronutrients as ‘fuel’ for exercise endeavours. While this notion provides a basis of quantitative nutritional support, what happens when our active individual lacks adequate digestive health to assimilate these foods, and in the process creates an inflammatory tone in their body? And what happens when our aspiring athlete is genetically not suited to the diet that is prescribed by the sports nutritionist, which is based merely on the energetic needs of their sport?

The underlying aim of Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition is to encourage sport, exercise and nutrition professionals, academics and students to embrace the physiological complexity and individuality of an exercising person. This approach highlights the need to go beyond traditional macronutrient approaches dominant in this field, and consider how our food impacts physiological health from an integrative body systems perspective. Within the context of heavy training loads, often alongside significant life stressors, such practitioners can support the robust health and performance requirements of active individuals. This cutting-edge book thereby brings together the scientific voice of academics with the ‘real-world’ experience of nutrition and exercise practitioners, and by doing so, the authors wish to stimulate a new paradigm of thought towards integrative and personalised thinking in sport and exercise.

Table of Contents:

1. Integrative Sports Nutrition: An Introduction  2. Personalised Sports Nutrition  3. Gastrointestinal Health in Athletes  4. Detoxification and Biotransformation for Athletes  5. The Immune System and Exercise  6. Bioenergetics and Cardiovascular Health  7. Neuroendocrine Communication within Sport and Exercise  8. The Role of Nutrition in Musculoskeletal Injury and Recovery 9. Energy Requirements for Sport and Exercise: Beyond Calories  10. Micronutrients and Polyphenols: Catalysts and Protectors  11. Macronutrients: More than Just ‘Fuel’ for the Athlete  12. Body Composition and Weight Management in Sport  13. Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy from an Integrative Nutrition Perspective  14. Nutrient Timing in Sport and Exercise  15. Hydration and Electrolytes for an Athlete  16. Nourishing Sports and Recovery Drinks  17. Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition: Closing Thoughts