Nutrition And The
Athlete-II
Last week we talked about
nutrition for athletes and
there’s more today. With the
Bowl football games and all
the other sports events
crowding the calendar, it
seems a good time to try to
clear up some of the mis
conceptions that some
athletes and some coaches
have about nutrition.
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by Laurence M. Hurah, M.D.
Consultant, National Dairy Council
Take the matter of energy.
Many athletes feel they have
special energy
requirements. Well, an
athlete can often use about 25
percent more energy than
the average individual, but
it’s the same old kind of
energy, not something
unique and different.
No Special Foods
There are no special food
sources that supply extra
reserves of energy that are
not supplied by other foods of
the same nutrient content.
Energy reserves are
established in the body by
the food the athlete eats
several days before the
athletic event. A last-minute
candy bar, for example, is
not going to help much in
terms of energy for the
game.
Fats and carbohydrates -
not protein - are the primary
fuel foods for our bodies.
Fat gives us nine calories
per gram. Carbohydrates
give us four calories per
gram. This means fat gives
us more calories per gram of
food. But carbohydrate is the
more efficient energy fuel.
This is partly due to car
bohydrate being metabolized
faster in your body. Fat is
encouraged in weight
reducing diets because it
“sticks to your ribs” longer,
thus keeps you from getting
hungry again as quickly. But
for the athlete, carbohydrate
will give him calories faster.
Fats are used by the body
for what is known as “low
intensity exercise.” Car
bohydrates are used almost
exclusively during heavy
physical exertion and during
endurance events. This
clinches the role of car
bohydrates as a primary
source of energy. Again, it is
important to remember that
the athlete will want to build
up his carbohydrate store
starting 2 to 3 days prior to
the athletic event, not just
the day of the game.
The rule about eating not
later than two hours before
an athletic event is dictated
by certain facts. It usually
takes two hours for a full
meal to move through the
stomach.
If food has not passed
through the stomach by
game time, vomiting, ab
dominal cramps and nausea
can result. It would also
mean that the athlete’s blood
supply is “compromised
between the working
muscles and it’s job of
helping the digestion of
food.” In this case, one or
both functions suffer.
A balanced diet for an
athlete, like for anyone else,
should be composed of 15
percent protein, 40 percent
fat, 45 percent carbohydrate,
and the wide variety of
vitamins and minerals that
the four food groups offer.
The athlete is different only
in that he needs more total
food to meet his higher
energy needs.
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A New American Farm
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bership record of 2,393,731
member families has been
reported by Roger Fleming,
secretary-treasurer. The
1974 increase of 100,051
members marks the fourth
consecutive year that the
membership increase has
been in excess of 100,000
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Southern, Midwestern,
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achieve quota. Also, thirteen
of the fourteen Farm
Bureaus in the Southern
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membership highes.
A total of 46 states reached
1974 membership quotas,
and during the year
recognition has been given to
the “Top Twenty” State
Farm Bureaus in mem
bership achievement. Here
is the final ranking for the
“Top Twenty” in percentage
of membership quota:
Rhode Island, 119.8 percent;
North Carolina, 113.1 per
cent; West Virginia, 111.7
percent; Virginia, 110.4
percent; South Carolina,
109.9 percent; Pennsylvania,
109.9 percent; Utah, 109.1
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Louisiana, 107.5 percent;
Kentucky, 107.1 percent;
Alabama, 106.8 percent;
Ohio, 106.4 percent;
Missouri, 106.2 percent;
Mississippi, 106.2 percent;
Connecticut, 105.4 percent;
Massachusetts, 104.9 per
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