Nutritional status and its relationship with performance and fatigue in adolescents
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https://doi.org/10.29070/cp5ppx04Keywords:
High school athletes, Teachers, Dietary habits, Adolescence, Healthy eatingAbstract
This Paper explores the critical role of nutrition in enhancing athletic performance, recovery, and overall well-being among athletes. It emphasizes the significant impact of dietary choices on athletes' strength, training outcomes, and recovery processes. The study utilized paired sample t-tests to analyze changes in nutrition knowledge, fruit and vegetable intake, body composition, and BMI scores, with an alpha level of 0.05 set for statistical significance. The research highlighted the importance of energy intake and expenditure in optimizing body composition, revealing correlations between energy deficits and body fat percentage among elite female athletes. The study advocates for tailored nutrition education programs for athletes, as many rely on varied sources that may influence their nutritional decisions. The results suggest a gap between dietary knowledge and actual practices, prompting recommendations for future research to investigate the underlying factors that hinder athletes from adopting dietary habits that align with best practices for performance enhancement.
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