Sport Nutrition first half Flashcards
Energy use in 100m vs 800m vs marathon
PCR and ATP - Substrate level phosphorylation in 100m - glycogen store manipulation doesn’t benefit.
Glycolytic in 800m (although always cross over) - little aerobic - turned into lactate
Oxidative phosphorylation in marathon - most from carbs (85% of VO2 max for 2 hrs)
Describe Anabolism, unique for nutritionist
Anabolism
Building block precursors into synthesised end products
Uses ATP into ADP + Pi
Nutritionist not just what synthesised but also what is used (ATP) e.g. in muscle contraction
Describe Catabolism
Catabolism
Carbs, lipids, amino acids (also nutriets from diet) + O2
Into H20 and CO2
Produces ATP
Describe link between anabolism and catabolism
If someone wants to continue work (Muscular work = anabolism from contraction) they need catabolism - ATP resynthesis.
What % of energy comes from protein?
5
Describe the 3 roles of a sport nutritionalist
Educator
Translator
Bouncer
Size of stores of energy
Protein 14kg Fat 10.5 Carbs muscl glycogen 0.4 (up to 1kg) Liver 0.1kg Blood glucose (0.01)
Describe the 3 way interaction in energy balance. Increase in intake/ stores effect?
Energy intake
Energy stores
Energy expenditure
3 way interaction - increase or decrease in one impacts the other factors
Increase intake = increase stores. Increase energy intake= increase in metabolism (dietary induced thermogenesis) and can increase exercise and other components of energy expenditure. E.g. Studies show no breakfast = less PA in morning. Gives flexibility, not all excess will be adipose. Adipose tissues releases leptin which changes appetite and potentially intake Stores also affect energy expenditure e.g. High glycogen stores and running further.
Give some factors that effect energy intake
Loads of factors that affect intake- broadly envionment and lifestyle influencing cognition, reward, choice, mood, stress. Individual genetics and early life also affect at all stages.
Total energy intake
Composition of diet
Satiety issues
Amount & type of fibre
Type of foods (energy density)
Environmental/ sociological reasons e.g. Fitting in with a mate in the bar
Also normally finish a ‘mars bar’ regardless of size so mars determines intake.
Current weight and body comp
Hormonal control of appetite, fat deposition
Intake then influences energy expenditure metabolically LOOK: (nutrient sensing, muscle, liver, fat, gut) and impacts our future actions about energy intake and expenditure.
Factors that affect energy expenditure
Similar factors affect energy expenditure
Resting metabolic rate
Activities of daily living
Planned PA
Intensity of PA
Body comp
Total energy intake and composition of kcals
Genetics & inefficient energy cycles
Intake then influences energy expenditure metabolically LOOK: (nutrient sens
Difference in calculating BMR and RMR
BMR vs RMR. Rarely BMR. BMR - after sleep without walking (12 hrs). BMR = 4 hrs after,
How do TEE, DIT and RMR vary between sedentary adn very active (as a %)
Active person - rest day - proportion of RMR varies however RMR stays the same.
DIT is typically 10% of intake regardless of intake. TEE gives a challenge to expenditure which fluctuates on daily basis.
How much does RMR vary?
RMR easily predicted by height, age and body comp. (differences only 10s of calories).
calories in alcohol
7kcal/g
how to convert from kcal to KJ
x4.2
Explain how DIT varies with nutrition
Protein 25-30% is used to process protein
Carbs 6-8%
Fat 2-3%
Why is a calorie not a calorie?
DIT varies with nutritional
Protein 25-30% is used to process protein
Carbs 6-8%
Fat 2-3%
High protein diet but same calories (less calories)
Due to gluconeogenesis energy (de aminate and then convert to useful carb
Some pass straight to TCA
Straight to Acetyl CoA
Ketosis - some converted to ketones (ketogenic diet)
Interconversion processes cost energy
Contrasts to glucose - glucose ready to use
Fat some processes - e.g. B oxidation.
Relationship between effective calories and carb intake
As carbs decreases (replaced with fat and protein)
As carb decreases, effective calories decreases
Theoretical plan not real life.
Change in expenditure resultantly
x
What is energy balance?
Energy balance = dietry intake - total energy expenditure.
EB amount of dietary energy added or lost from energy stores after all the body's physiological systems have done all their work for the entire dat EB is an output from the body's physiological systems Negative = weight loss e.g. negative 2000
What is energy availability? Significance?
EA = Dietary intake - Exercise energy expenditure
Amount of dietary energy remaining after exercise training for all other metabolic functions
e.g. cellular maintenance and repair, thermoregulation, immunity, growth, reproduction
EA is an imput to the body’s physiological systems
Low energy availability should be avoided because it can impair performance and adaptation to training and may be harmful to brain, reproduction, metabolic and immune function and to bone health.
Relationship between EB and low EA?
Total energy expenditure is decreasing due to decreased metabolism - physiological systems are being suppressed e.g. Downregulate protein turnover, bone turnover, reproductive system
Low EA then dampening of physiological systems so becomes higher EB (still negative)
Why do both EA and EB need to be considered?
EA causes effects on physiological systems
Under voluntary control
EB is an effect of physiological systems, not under voluntary control, Does not indicate energy requirements for Health. EA is likely to put someone above or below EB. Both need to be considered.
Describe risks of energy deficiency in sport (women)
Causes
Women more at risk than men
Reason often unrelated to sport
Female athlete triad
Harmful effects on reproductive and skeletal health of physically active women
Often compulsive eating disorders (or exercise)
Intentional efforts to improve performance by reducing body weight and body fat
Also inadvertant
describe inadvertent failure to match EI with TEE
Exericse doesn’t affect acute Ad-libitum energy intake
Supresses relative energy intake
Via known neuroendocrine mechanisms
Describe appetite stimulant word and hormones
Orexigenic hormones: Ghrelin (appetite stimulant)
Describe appetite suppressant hormones
Anorexigenic hormones: PYY, GLP-1, PP, Leptin
effect of endurance/ Wingate test on appetite hormones and EI? Significance?
12 healthy males
3 trials - 60m rest, 60m endurance, 30min rest +5x 30s Wingate tests over 30min
Standard breakfast
Ad-libitum lunch, dinner and evening meals
Appetite hormones - ghrelin and PYY measured
All had similar total kJ (despite higher EE)
Acetylated ghrelin (hunger hormone) - same in rested Exercise decreases gherelin, decrease flow to GI tract so reduces secretion. Opposite increase in PYY (hunger suppressing) Decreased appetite in exercise over no exercise. However no difference in total intake affect - not convinced of appetite hormone intake. Increase during exercise though - inadvertent chronic deficiency. Some compensation occurs otherwise ppl would waste away but not sure of degree.
Effect of high carb diet on ad-libitum energy intake? Limtations to study?
Energy Intake higher in moderate than in higher carb intake (may have been related to types of foods) High carb (lower density) may be a factor. Possibly higher availability in higher carb.
Absolute intake of carb was similar despite a lower %.
Shows manipulation of diet may not yield desired effect.
Due to greater bulk and fibre content?
some compensated others are non-compensators
Compensators became progressively hungrier
How does nutrition in and around exercise influence energy intake?
Nutrition in and around exercise sessions influences subsequent energy intake.
20g protein post exercise decreases subsequent energy intake vs 20g carohydrate (isocaloric).
Guidelines for coaches/ dietitians/ nutritionists for EA and sport governing bodies
Coaches/ dietitians/ nutritionists Monitor and manage EA For carb loading/ growth: EA >45kcal/kg FFM For maintenance EA = 45kcal/lg FFM For fat loss EA = 30 -45 Never <30 - negative metabolic effects Sports governing bodies Establish rules and procedures to prevent excessively low EA
Normal EB at EA 45kcal/kgFFM/day, same at low EA?
0, can be 0 at low EA also
ACSMs 3 distinct origins of energy deficiency in athletes
Obsessive eating disorders (clinical mental illness)
Intentional and rational but mismanaged efforts to reduce body size and fatness for athletic comps
May include disordered eating habits such as fasting, diet pills, laxatives, diuretics, enemas, vomiting (often part of sport culture)
Inadvertant failure to increase energy intake with expenditure
WHy do athletes try to lose weight?
Females may also under-eat for reasons not related to sport - twice as many young women as men at every decile of body mass index percieve themselves to be overweight.
More lean women than lean men actively trying to lose weight.
More athletes report improvement in appearance over performance as a reason for losing weight.
relationship between EA and repro and bone protein synth and insulin
Low BMD may be mediated by oestrogen deficiency.
Lower EA also measns lower bone protein synth and lower insulin (aa uptake) in a linear way.
Declines abruptly <30EA
Disruption of repro function <30kcal.kg.FFM = EA Regardles of oestrogen after 5 days deficiency LH surge based on EA not intake or expenditure alone EA=30 may be sig as it approximately = sleeping MR Low EA also suppressed type 1 immunity (intracellular pathogens e.g. virus) - more common UTRI
Why do male and female athletes load glycogen differently?
Female athletes may not be able to increase glycogen stores as much as males - may be due to lower total eergy intake. Women can load glycogen like men when they eat just as much per kilo of body weight.
Implications of low EA in athletes?
Athletes should eat by discipline - specific amounts at planned times
Reconsider high % of carbs in endurance events
Bodies should make standards/ guidence for sport specific healthy weight management
What is the second law of thermodynamics? Why is a calorie not a calorie
dissipation law - in any irreversible (real) process, the entropy must increase; balance is not expected. Entropy is in fact identifiable with irreversibility. Change in energy+entropy = Gibbs free energy (predicts direction).
Second law says that no machine is completely efficient Lost as heat or internal rearrangement of chemical compounds and other changes in entropy Efficiency dependent on how it works, nature of fuel and processes enlisted by organism Second law says there is variation of efficiency for different metabolic pathways is to be expected.
Low carb or low fat for weight loss?
One study shows low carb can have 300cals more and still lead to larger weight loss
One mechanism
Gluconeogenesis for glucose to CNS and increased protein turnover could account for missing energy
Ends of a fatty acid
Methly end (n-) and carboxyl end
what do(18:1n-9) and (18:2n-6) mean?
Monosaturated (1 C=C) e.g. Oleic acid (18:1n-9) 18C atoms, bond is 9 away from methyl end
Polyunsaturated e.g. Linoleic acid (essential FA) (18:2n-6) first bond occurs 6 from (omega 6)
why are n-3 and n-6 so important?
Humans lack ability to insert C=Cbeyond C9 so have requirement for n-3 or n-6 Fas (omega 3 and omega 6)
why is there Sport nutrition interest in fat?
Major contributor to energy production during light and moderate intensity exercise
Very large energy stores
Spare finite source of carbs
Should athletes be consuming high fat diet/ fat loading?
(try to increase fat burning efficiency)
How do sources of energy differ with total energy cost?
Blood glucose from liver glycogen
Generally as exercise intensity increases Fat utilisation decreases.
Also as time increases proportion of fat for energy use increases as stores become depleted.
More and more from muscl glycogen and blood glucose
How do sources of energy differ with time?
Also as time increases proportion of fat for energy use increases as stores become depleted.
How does endurance training affect fat utilisation?
Increased fat oxidation during exercise will spare muscle glycogen
How is fat used by the body?
Break down TGs by HSL (hormone sesntive lipases)
Mobalise
In blood by albumin, free or lipoproteins
Into cells
Activated via fatty acyl-CoA
CPT1 (carnatine shuttle ) into mitochondrial
Studies look at carnatine supplement (only good with high carb)
CPT2 - fatty acycl coA
B oxidation
Krebs
Role of insulin in fat utilisation?
x Glucose - increases insulin
Inhibits activity of HSL (Hormone sensitive lipase)
Reduces breakdown of fats both IM and in adipose
Insulin changes fat/ carb utilisation in carbs
Short term carb loading or fat loading better for performance? why?
carb better due to more glycogen.
Also linked to perceived exertion - more tired with fat
Effectiveness in longer fat loading? why?
Increased fat oxidation at submax, decreased carb oxidation
Overall no difference in time trial performance
If totaly carb deplete may improve performance
what is dietary periodisation and rationale behind it?
Diet based on training/ comp.
Do positives (glycogen sparing) and negatives (lowered CHO stores) cancel each other out? If adaptation to fat (increased oxidation) are couple with short term high carb can you get benefits of both?
describe a dietary periodisation regime and does it lead to perf benefit? detriment?
5 high fat then high carb for 6 or high carb for all 6 followed by performance diet. - 120min test on day 7
Increased fat oxidation - seems to remain, not sure what aspect though? E.g. increased FFA release or increased oxidation etc? However no sig difference in time trial performance
High fat may impair training prior - also less fit pops may percieve exercise to be harder
How does fat diet affect VO2max?
INcreases as needs more O2 per energy created (less eficient)
Cases where high fat diet may be useful?
May benefit some ultra endurance athletes (very small groups)
High fat diets are particularly detrimental to what type of exercise and why?
Training combined with a high fat diet reduces high intensity performance, likely due to changes in PDH (pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity
(linking carb metab to citric acid cycle - rate limiting step- so fat drives instead)
Why should you start carb refeeding as soon as possible? (physiology too)
Maximise time for glycogen synth, enhanced glycogen resynth (increased insulin sensitivity and glcogen synthase activation due to depleted stores)
Large meals vs small snacks for CHO synthesis?
24hr doesnt matter. < 8h then frequent snacks
Solid or carb CHO for glycogen resynth?
Similar
GI of foods for recovery meals? why?
High GI then large glycaemic and insulinaemic response (other mechanism too)
May be malabsorbed carb in low GI foogs
2 stores of CHO in muscle
Proglucogen
Macroglycogen
Extremes of spectrum
How is CHO storage affected by increased carbs in a 24 hr period?
Positive relatonship until threshold around 7-10g.kg-1 BM in 24hrs
May need more if strenuous or eccentric as assumes passive recovery
How does eccentric exercise affect glycogen resyth?
. eccentric ecercise which can impair post-exercise glycogen resynthesis - can be partially overcome by increased CHO.
How much carb in 0-4hrs to maximise resynth?
Early carb intake of 1.2g.kg.hr in 0-4hrs - less impact over longer period
Highest storage in 1st hr
How does gender affect glycogen resynth?
Most studies on males
Menstual status may affect, greater storage in luteal than follicular
Less response in general to carb loading than males?
Effect of TEI and other nutrients on glycogen resynth? other positives?
Underpinned by total energy intake Coingestion carbs with: Protein Increase glycogen storage? - only if not optimum carb timing (>1hr) or amount Limited to 1st hr of protein intake Increases during first 40mins and 2hs compared with just carbs alone of same conc - good if short recovery periods? Cant say for sure any benefit if optimum carb Good for N balance, repair etc anyway Alcohol Impairs recovery short termx
Levels of carb for low, mod and extreme exercise
Guidelines Immediate 0-4hr 1.2kgh Daily recovery for low intensity 5-7gkgday Mod to heavy = 7-12 Extreme (4-6hr per day) = 10-12gkgday
Why is g.kg better than %?
Often athletes find hard to achieve such carb rich diets in training
Normally 50-55% not 60-70%
Not just body mass but also muscle mass should be accounted for
Energy ratio terminology should be discouraged
Is correlation between % and g.kg though but not strong in men
No relationship in females due to restricted intake in some groups
(maybe because higher %carb = less fat so less overall cals)
When may more frequent snacks be better than meals of CHO?
Early frequent carbs to avoid discomfort often associated with eating large amounts of bulky high-carbohydrate foods, but may also provide direct benefits to glycogen storage during the early recovery phase. No important if >8 hrs.
Do high carb diets really enhance training adaptations over mod carb diets?
Not clear longitudinal evidence showing increased perf from high carb in trianing outcomes
Can reduce ‘over-reaching’ syndrome (performance detriment from overtraining)
May be underpowered studies
What do a sport nutritionalist need to do
Know sport** Know culture of sport - know how to communicate e.g. Practices in history, most work accross several sports How? Watch competition and training Communicate** MDT - particularly club environment Others may have better time/ opportunity to communicate Bigger buy in if an individual Younger players follow senior players Measure dietary intake Determine energy requirements Make dietary recommendations
How to measure energy intake and strengths and limitations
1) Food frequency questionnaire
a. Lacks precision
b. Recall bias
c. Very quick and easy
d. Population level technique
2) 24hr recall
Snapshat - not normal
Quick and easy - 5 to 10 minuntes
Combined with training can get good info
3) Recorded intake (weighed, estimated, standard household measures) - most common
3-7 days typically
Recording may change behaviour (prospective)
Less likely to forget/ selectively forget
Precise
Time consuming
3 day period better with coaching on that it’s acurate
x
Problems with measuring energy intake
Energy intake is underreported
Through choice not to record
Change diet due to monitoring
Chose items not problematic to record e.g. Get readymeal
Recall
Choose not to eat items that are problematic to record
What is PAL
PAL = Physical activity level = number based on activity though the day, multiple of RMR
Sedentary = 1.4 x RMR
Argument that most athletes are sedentary
Could assume sedentary and then add on extra for exercise.
How many kcal from running/ walking?
Running easy approx 1kcal per kg per km (walking or runnning)
How to calculate TEE
Calculate weekly training, divide bye 7, add daily average to RMR xPAL
How to assess for sweat losses?
Change in body mass during exercise, corrected for volume of drink/weight of food ingested and urine/faecal losses during exercise
Sodium loss can be estimated from the volume of sweat lost and the sweat sodium concentration
How to convert mmol to g
Times relative molecular mass = mg, /1000 = g
Name the 8 essential amino acids
Isoleucine Leucine Lysine Methionine Phenylalanine Tryptophan Valine
Name the 8 oxidised amino acids
Leucine Isoleucine Valine Lysine Glutamate Aspartate Alanine Asparagine
Describe inputs to the free amino acid pool
Dietary protein into gut
Digestion - taken up across gut (high %)
Into free amino acid pool
Also from dispensable amino acid synthesis (carbon from CHO or fat and N from NH3)
Infusion of aa IV (often tracers with labeled C and or N)
Exchange with tissue protein (degradation and uptake)
Describe outputs of the free amino acid pool
Urine -N
Sweat - n
CO2 (oxidation) - c
Tissue protein - C&
Describe how the relationship between muscle mass and age in a sedentary individual
In sedentary muscle mass remains unchanged (declines above 55)
Clinical significance of sarcopenia?
Clin sig - trips and falls
Lower metabolically active tissue
Lower vol/ mass to hold/ use glucose - diabetes risk
Sendentary requirements of protein
Approx 0.8g/kg/day
How can we measure protein turnover in individuals?
Nitrogen balance techniques
Tracers techniques
Where it’s going
Gut muscle etc
Resistance exercise (usually unilateral and lower body) Manipulate post-exercise protein nutrition Infusion of trace amounts of labelled aas in combination with blood tests and muscle sampling to determine protein synth (how much is uptaken into muscle) Done in both control and experimental groups Labell infused aas - muscle biopsy at different periods look at how much is uptake
Describe fluctuations in protein balance
Larger fluctuations in synthesis Smaller flucturations in breakdown BAsed on protein intake which decreases MPB and increases synthesis Overall net = 0 normally Normally balance with breakdown.
How does exercise affect protein balance?
Superimpose exercise
Increase in muscle protein synthesis
Drives positive increase
Smaller dips below breakdown (periods of negative NPB) and larger peaks with protein
Relationship between resistance exercise, NPB, synthesis and breakdown. Changed by feeding?
Without feeding
Breakdown>synthesis
Both breakdown and synthesis increase with exercise
Increase in synthesis is larger than increase in breakdown after exercise
Causes less negative effect on protein balance
Net balance become less negative
Balance is still negative without protein intake
Remains 48hrs in untrained individuals
How long do the effects of resistance training on NPB last in non-trained individuals?
48hr