Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition

A Health-feeds-performance Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-69708-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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. Whilst 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 practitioners, and by doing so, the authors wish to stimulate a new paradigm of thought towards integrative and personalised thinking in sport and exercise.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Ian

Roberts, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: A question of more than just 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

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Craig, MSc, DipCNE, FBANT is the founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition, the world’s first organisation to bring integrative thinking into sport and exercise nutrition. With academic backgrounds in both exercise physiology and nutritional therapy, and a long career as a middle-distance athlete and coach, he has been developing the concept of integrative sport and exercise nutrition for the past two decades. As an experienced practitioner and co-author of Wholesome Nutrition, Ian supports athletes (recreational to elite) and individuals with lifestyle-oriented health imbalances, based in his native Scotland.

Justin Roberts, PhD, SFHEA, FBANT is a Professor of Nutritional Physiology, applied to exercise and functional health at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He is a Registered Nutritionist® and Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of the Nutrition Evidence Database (supporting an evidence-based approach for nutrition practitioners, academic researchers and students), and Chair of the Nutritional Therapy Education Commission. With over three decades of experience in nutrition, and sport and exercise physiology, Justin has worked with individuals across a diverse range of sports, including professional athletes and teams.