INTRODUCTION Athletes—and lots of non-athletes—gulp vitamin pills in tremendous quantities, but most experts tell us that only a small number of athletes will notice any benefit of vitamin supplements on their health or sport performance. Is it O.K. to take vitamin supplements as an insurance policy, in case your diet does not supply sufficient vitamins? Can bad things happen if you take too ma...

Background The tool kits of bibliometrics and science mapping provide a standard methodology to map the knowledge base specific fields science. aim present research is analysis recent international trends sport nutrition science, as well primary identification topics results via enhanced bibliometric methods for 2000–2018 time period.Methods Altogether, 3889 publications were included in this s...

Sports nutrition is a constantly evolving field with hundreds of research papers published annually. For this reason, keeping up to date with the literature is often difficult. This paper is a five year update of the sports nutrition review article published as the lead paper to launch the JISSN in 2004 and presents a well-referenced overview of the current state of the science related to how t...

BACKGROUND To compare and contrast youth physical activity (PA) and inactivity patterns in two developing Asian countries: the Philippines and China. METHODS Comparative analysis of 1997-1999 Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey and the 1997 China Health and Nutrition Survey, large-scale surveys that included questions on type, frequency and duration of: commuting mode to school, spo...

The desire to win leads physically active individuals to look for anything to improve performance. Many ergogenic aids are available; however, claims made about many of these products are not appropriate. To evaluate such products, one must consider the physiological sense of the claims, the supportive evidence provided, the research articles quoted, and the legal and health implications of use.

Good knowledge of nutrition is widely thought to be an important aspect to maintaining a balanced and healthy diet. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new reliable tool to measure the general and the sport nutrition knowledge (GeSNK) in people who used to practice sports at different levels. The development of (GeSNK) was carried out in six phases as follows: (1) item developme...