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Nutrients:Building Blocks for Performance

Heat Stroke In Sports

Throwing Mechanics

Diabetics, Exercise & Competitve Sports

Nutrients: Building Blocks For Performance

From "The Ultimate Sports Nutrition Handbook" by Ellen Coleman, R.D., M.A., M.P.H. and Suzanne Nelson Steen, D.Sc., R.D. ©1996 Bull Publishing - reprinted with permission

There are three primary factors that influence your athletic performance: genetics, training and nutrition. You can't do anything about your heredity, but you do have control over your training and food choices.

Many athletes who train hard to excel are defeated by their diets instead of their competitors... Click here for the rest of the article

Heat Stroke In Sports: How To Protect Yourself and Help Your Teammates

From Gatorade Sport Science Exchange, Volume 15 Number 3

Heat stroke is always a risk in any sport when it's warm, especially in football and in distance running such as the 10-k race. In football, the uniform insulates the player and increases the risk of heat stroke...Click here for the rest of the article

Throwing Mechanics

From Gatorade Sport Science Exchange

Throwing is a fundamental skill that is often overlooked by coaches at all levels. Many coaches believe that throwing ability is innate: you have it, or you don't...Click here for the rest of the article

Diabetes, Exercise and Competitive Sports

From Gatorade Sport Science Exchange

People with diabetes mellitus are rapidly approaching one-third of the US population. They either cannot produce insulin (Type 1 DM) or the insulin they produce is ineffective in stimulating the uptake of blood sugar (glucose) into the body's cells (Type 2 DM). Accordingly, if diabetes is untreated, blood sugar rises to dangerously high levels that can eventually cause blindness, nerve damage, and other complications.

Blood sugar can be controlled by the appropriate administration of insulin and other drugs and/or by the manipulation of dietary carbohydrate and exercise.

During exercise, the contracting muscles produce...Click here for the rest of the article