1st Edition
Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition A Health-Feeds-Performance Perspective
Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition: A Health-Feeds-Performance Perspective defines health as an underpinning requirement for active pursuit and sporting performance. By focusing on the empowerment of scientists and practitioners who support such individuals, this new textbook powerfully disseminates academic and experiential knowledge in a thoroughly applied context. The prevailing paradigm that has existed within the academic enquiry of sports nutrition has typically viewed macronutrients as ‘fuel’ for exercise endeavours. While this notion provides a basis of quantitative nutritional support, what happens when our active individual lacks adequate digestive health to assimilate these foods, and in the process creates an inflammatory tone in their body? And what happens when our aspiring athlete is genetically not suited to the diet that is prescribed by the sports nutritionist, which is based merely on the energetic needs of their sport?
The underlying aim of Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition is to encourage sport, exercise and nutrition professionals, academics and students to embrace the physiological complexity and individuality of an exercising person. This approach highlights the need to go beyond traditional macronutrient approaches dominant in this field, and consider how our food impacts physiological health from an integrative body systems perspective. Within the context of heavy training loads, often alongside significant life stressors, such practitioners can support the robust health and performance requirements of active individuals. This cutting-edge book thereby brings together the scientific voice of academics with the ‘real-world’ experience of nutrition and exercise practitioners, and by doing so, the authors wish to stimulate a new paradigm of thought towards integrative and personalised thinking in sport and exercise.
1. Integrative Sports Nutrition: An Introduction
Justin Roberts, Ian Craig, Lars McNaughton and Pete Williams
2. Personalised Sports Nutrition
Michelle Barrow, Karen Harrison and Ian Craig
3. Gastrointestinal Health in Athletes
Ian Craig, Justin Roberts, Jamie Pugh and Rick Miller
4. Detoxification and Biotransformation for Athletes
Heidi N. du Preez, Katherine Caris-Harris and Ian Craig
5. The Immune System and Exercise
Glen Davison, Amy Desborough and Justin Roberts
6. Bioenergetics and Cardiovascular Health
Ian Craig, Zac van Heerden and Hannah Moir
7. Neuroendocrine Communication within Sport and Exercise
Ian Craig, Desmond Gilmore, Alan Smith and Warren Brown
8. The Role of Nutrition in Musculoskeletal Injury and Recovery
David Clayton, Andrew Holwerda and Ruth Wilde
9. Energy Requirements for Sport and Exercise: Beyond Calories
Justin Roberts, Ricardo Adamo, Kylene Bogden and Ian Craig
10. Micronutrients and Polyphenols: Catalysts and Protectors
Simone do Carmo, Joseph Lillis, Jose Villa-Rodriguez and Justin Roberts
11. Macronutrients: More than Just ‘Fuel’ for the Athlete
Henry Chung, Shaun Chapman, Alessandro Ferretti and Justin Roberts
12. Body Composition and Weight Management in Sport
Ian Craig, Justin Roberts, Matt Lovell and Jennie Carter
13. Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy from an Integrative Nutrition Perspective
Guillermo Escalante, Simone do Carmo and Paul Ehren
14. Nutrient Timing in Sport and Exercise
Shawn Arent and Henrietta Paxton
15. Hydration and Electrolytes for an Athlete
Andy Blow, Emily Arrell and Judith Haudum
16. Nourishing Sports and Recovery Drinks
Matt Cole, Henrietta Paxton and Rachel Jesson
17. Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition: Closing Thoughts
Ian Craig and Justin Roberts
Biography
Ian Craig, MSc, DipCNE, FBANT is the founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition, the world’s first organisation to bring integrative thinking into sport and exercise nutrition. With academic backgrounds in both exercise physiology and nutritional therapy, and a long career as a middle-distance athlete and coach, he has been developing the concept of integrative sport and exercise nutrition for the past two decades. As an experienced practitioner and co-author of Wholesome Nutrition, Ian supports athletes (recreational to elite) and individuals with lifestyle-oriented health imbalances, based in his native Scotland.
Justin Roberts, PhD, SFHEA, FBANT is a Professor of Nutritional Physiology, applied to exercise and functional health, at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. He is a Registered Nutritionist® and Fellow of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of the Nutrition Evidence Database (supporting an evidence-based approach for nutrition practitioners, academic researchers and students), and Chair of the Nutritional Therapy Education Commission. With over three decades of experience in nutrition, and sport and exercise physiology, Justin has worked with individuals across a diverse range of sports, including professional athletes and teams.
