Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Physiology of sports
Chapter 2: Dietary assessment of the athlete
Chapter 3: Physique assessment of the athlete
Chapter 4: Protein
Chapter 5: Energy requirements of the athlete
Chapter 6: Weight loss and the athlete
Chapter 7: making weight
Chapter 8: Eating disorders and disordered eating in athletes
Chapter 9: Bone, calcium, vitamin D and exercise
Chapter 10: Prevention, detection and treatment of iron depletion and deficiency in athletes
Chapter 11: Micronutrients
Chapter 12: Preparation for competition
Chapter 13: Competition, fluid and fuel
Chapter 14: Nutrition for recovery after training and competition
Chapter 15: Nutritional strategies to enhance fat oxidation during aerobic exercise
Chapter 16: Supplements and sports foods
Chapter 17: Nutritional issues for young athletes, children and adolscents
Chapter 18: Nutrition issues for the master athlete
Chapter 19: Special needs for the athlete with diabetes
Chapter 20: Athletes with gastrointestinal disorders, food allergies and food intolerance
Chapter 21: Special needs: the paralympic athlete
Chapter 22: Immunity, infective illness and injury
Chapter 23: Medical and nutritional issues for the travelling athlete
Chapter 24: Altitude, cold and heat
Chapter 25: Catering for athletes

About the Author

Louise Burke, PhD, BSc, Grad Dip Diet, FSMA, FACSM Louise has been the Head of the Department of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institue of Sport since 1990 and has over 25 years experience in counselling and educating athletes. She has been appointed as a Visiting Professor of Sports Nutrition at Deakin University in Melbourne where she is involved in the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate education in Sports Nutrition. Her research interests include post-exercise recovery, nutritional ergogenic aids, carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise, and fluid needs in sport. She has produced a number of education resources for athletes, coaches, students and practitioners, including best-selling books. She was appointed as the Dietitian to the Australia Olympic Team for the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and is a Fellow of Sports Dietitians Australia.



Vicki Deakin, MSc, BSc, Dip T, Grad Dip Nutr Diet, APD Vicki is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra and convenes the undergraduate course in Human Nutrition and post graduate course in Sports Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a member of the Population Health Research team at the GADI Research Centre and Sports Dietitian with the ACT Academy of Sport in Canberra. Her involvement with elite athletes dates back to her initiation of the nutrition services at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1985. She is passionate about enhancing professional education opportunities in sports nutrition for coaches and has developed a distance course for the Australian Coaching Council to facilitate this process. Her research interests include iron deficiency, dietary survey methods, and determining barriers and facilitators that affect food choice and physical activity behaviours in different population groups.