Post-Midterm Material Flashcards
What is a sport supplement?
A food, food component, nutritent, or non-food component that is purposefully ingested in addition to the habitually consumed diet with the aim of achieveing a specific health and/or performance benefit
What are sport foods?
Specialized products used to provide a practical source of nutrients when it is impractical to consume eveyday foods
Ex. sports drink, sports gel, sport bar
What are medical supplements?
Used to treat clinical issues, including diagnosed nutrient deficiencies
Ex. Iron, calcium, multi-vitamin
What are ergogenic supplements?
Supplements intended to enhance performance
Ex. Caffeine, nitrate (beetroot juice), creatine
What are functional food and superfoods?
Purposed to optimize health and performance
Ex. herbs, seeds, raw juice
What are other supplments?
includes a wide range of herbal and botanical extracts and concentrates
Ex. Supplements for: weight loss, increased energy
What are clinical eating disorders?
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Avoidant & Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
- Binge eatin disorder
- Other specified feeding or eating disorder
- Other eating disorders
What is a eating disorders?
These are clinical conditions that require medical intervention. These absolutely can not be ignored and represent a complex interplay between physical and mental health
What is a disordered eating?
Abnormal eating behaviours including restrictive eating, compulsive eating or irregular or inflexible eating patterns, excessive exercise beyond assigned training to compensate for dietary intake, and use of purgatives. The behaviours do not meet the clinical criteria for an eating disorder
What is intuitive eating?
- nourish body without guilt
- connects with hunger and satiety
- derives pleasure from food
- food does not have moral value
- includess a variety of food
- has a more positive body image
Can athletes do intuitive eating?
Athletes might need to eat when not hungry to optimize recovery and performance
Higher energy and nutrient needs
Very hard, reduced satiety
- intense training can suppress appetite, especially after workout
- endurance or high-volume athletes may not feel hungry even when they need to eat
Fuelling is time-sensitive
* athletes need to eat before hunger hits-like pre-workouts meals, post-training recovery snacks, or race-day fuelling
* eating until you’re hungry could mean underperforming or not recovering properly
What is REDs?
REDs = Relative Energy Deficiency
- A syndrome of impaired physiological and/or psychological functioning experienced by female and make athletes that is caused by exposure to promblematic (prolonged and/or severe) LEA -> Low energy availability
What is LEA?
LEA = Low energy availability
any mismatch between dietary energy intake and energy
expended in exercise that leaves the body’s total energy needs unmet, that is, there is inadequate energy to support the functions required by the body to maintain optimal health and performance.
Why are athletes ‘at risk’ for LEA & disordered eating more so than the average person who doesn’t play sports?
- Hyper competitive
- values of perfectionism
- pressure to look like a “typical” athlete
- performance benefits
What about within athletes biological sex?
Who’s at risk for LEA & disordered eating?
Male athletes: 15-70% prevalence
Female athletes: 23-80% prevalence
What about within athletes age?
Who’s at risk for LEA & disordered eating?
Younger athletes
What about within athletes sport?
Who’s at risk for LEA & disordered eating?
Aesthetics sports
What are consequences of REDs & LEA?
Impaired well-being, increased injury risk & decreased performance
- Decrease Energy metabolism (glycogen storage)
- Decrease Reproductive function
- Decrease Musculoskeletal health
- Decrease Immunity
- Decrease Cardiovascular & haematological health
Decrease Sleep quality
Increase Mood swings
Increase Cardiovascular disease (male and female athletes)
Increase Osteoporosis (female athletes) with REDs and LEA
What nutrients or dietary habits contribute to these consequences of REDs & LEA?
low carbs and calories, Ca2+, protein, Mg2+, B-vitamins
What are the strategies used to address REDs & LEA?
- De-emphasis on weight and body composition for performance success
- Routine assessment of dietary habits, body perceptions, bosy compostions
- Screening & early intervention
What are severe primary REDs indicators?
Females: primary amenorrhoea is indicated when there has been a failure to mentruate by age 15 in the presence of normal secondary sexural development or within 5 yeats after breast development if that occurs before age 10; prolonged secondary amenorrhoea (absense of 12 or more consecutive menstrual cycles
Male: Clinically low free or total testosterone (below reference range)
What are primary REDs indicators?
Females: secondary amenorrhoea (absence of 3-11 consecutive mentrual cycles
Male: subclinically low total or free testosterone (within the lowest 25% of the reference range)
- Negative deviation of a paediatric or adolescent athlete’s previous growth tratjectory
What are secondary primary REDs indicators?
Females: oligomenorrhoea caused by FHA (>35 days between periods for maximum of 8 periods/years)
- Elevated total or LDL cholesterol
- Clinically diagnosed depression and/or anxiety (only one secondary indictor for either or both outcomes
What are challenges with the research in REDs, LEA, disordered eating?
- Interchangeable use of terms (e.g., REDs, LEA, disordered eating)
- Accuracy of energy measurement
- Limited understanding of how unique groups have been affected: Male athletes, Strength-based sports, Para athletes
- Mental health impacts of REDs
- Overlap between over training & dietary habits