Fuel for Young Athletes: Essential Foods and Fluids for Future Champions
<html> <head> </head> <body><p>Young athletes need more than practice to succeed in sport. They need a proper diet that will leave them energized and able to perform their best throughout the entire game.</p><p>Whether you're a coach, parent, or nutritionist, you can help young athletes fuel for energy, development, and performance through the sound nutritional guidelines presented in <i>Fuel for Young Athletes</i>.</p><p>Author Ann Litt, a frequently consulted nutritionist, columnist, and mother of two teenage athletes, presents the most essential guidelines for athletes in middle school through high school. Litt provides a complete resource filled with practical advice that coaches, parents, and even athletes themselves can apply directly to the training table. Among the topics she covers are</p><p>-food and fluid guidelines for young athletes,<br />-food plans tailored to the specific energy needs of 11 sports,<br />-recipe and snack ideas that appeal to teens and give them extra power on the playing fields and courts,<br />-fuel for muscle development and bone growth,<br />-eating for endurance training,<br />-tactics for safely gaining and losing weight,<br />-dietary supplements,<br />-high-performance meal planning,<br />-eating well in fast-food restaurants, and<br />-strategies for disordered eating. </p><p><i>Fuel for Young Athletes</i> helps growing athletes meet their nutritional needs and guides them toward both optimal health and athletic success.<br /></p></body> </html>