Good nutritional practices are important for exercise performance and health during all ages. Athletes and especially growing children engaged in heavy training have higher energy and nutrient requirements compared to their non-active counterparts. Scientific understanding of sports nutrition for the young athlete is lacking behind the growing number of young athletes engaged in sports. Most of...

CONTEXT Nutrition education aims to enhance knowledge and improve dietary intake in athletes. Understanding athletes' nutrition knowledge and its influence on dietary intake will inform nutrition-education programs in this population. PURPOSE To systematically review the level of nutrition knowledge in athletes, benchmark this against nonathlete comparison groups, and determine the impact of ...

Introduction: Futsal is a sport that requires nutritional support to the high-energy expenditure and significant loss of fluids electrolytes during training matches. It important high-level athletes follow appropriate, evidence-based nutrition. To our knowledge, there lack data on eating habits nutrition knowledge players. Therefore, this study aims describe players national Brazilian Team. A s...

Digital games can be used not only for fun and entertainment. The term ‘serious games’ denotes digital games serving serious purposes like education, training, advertising, research, and health. In the contribution the chances and challenges of serious games for computer science in sport will be discussed. Serious games, particularly adventure and shooter games, already play an important role i...

Methods: A pre-post study was done measuring body image flexibility in adolescent female athletes. Athletes, aged 14-18, participated educational sessions about nutrition, flexibility, and RED-S (relative energy deficiency sport). Body measured by the BI-AAQ (Body Image - Acceptance Action Questionnaire).

Squash is a racquet sport played in a similar style room as racquetball. In a squash match there are 2 players that alternate hitting a small, black, rubber ball. A complete match is played as best of 5 games, where each game is played to 11 points. Points are scored when a player fails to return a shot made by the opponent. The sport of squash is played in over 190 countries by millions of peo...