Sports Nutrition: Minerals and Electrolytes

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CRC Press, Feb 6, 1995 - Health & Fitness - 352 pages
This book addresses the relationships of mineral and electrolyte needs and interactions to sports and exercise. There are chapters written by experts with long histories of research in this area. Chapters include descriptions of specific research projects, as well as literature reviews. Convincing evidence that exercise and sport activities do affect the mineral status of individuals is examined.
 

Contents

Yoshinobu Ohira
6
Physical Exercise and Iron Metabolism
7
Chapter
13
Chapter 4
33
Chapter 5
47
Chapter 6
59
Chapter 7
65
Chapter 8
81
Chapter 9
97
Dietary Calcium and the Bioavailability of Iron
105
Mineral and Energy Status of Groups of Male
293
The Relation of Calorie and Fiber Intake and Metabolic
305
Free Radicals in Sports
317
Chapter 11
322
Index
325
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