Seniors in Dallas

Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook

Description

Boost your energy, manage stress, build muscle, lose fat, and improve your performance with the all-time best-selling sports nutrition guide!

Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook will help you make the right food choices in grocery stores, restaurants, drive-throughs, and your own kitchen.

Whether you're preparing for competition or simply eating on the go, let sport`s leading nutritionist show you how to get maximum benefit from the foods you choose and the meals you make. You'll learn how to eat before exercise and events as well as how to refuel afterward for optimal recovery.

Updated and on the cutting edge, the fourth edition includes the latest sports nutrition research on hydration and fluid intake, vitamins, supplements, energy drinks, organic foods, and the role of carbohydrate and protein during exercise. You'll also learn about the new food pyramid and the American Heart Association's latest dietary guidelines.

If you're seeking advice on losing weight, getting energized to exercise, or improving your health and performance, Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook has the answers you can trust.

What's the best diet for good health and athletic performance? Nancy Clark, M.S., R.D., describes the dietary balance and specific foods shown to be optimal for athletes from recreational exercisers to Olympic hopefuls, citing supporting studies. Refreshingly free of high-protein hype, Clark emphasizes a varied, wholesome, moderate diet high in complex carbohydrates ("without question, wholesome carbohydrates are the best choices for fueling your muscles and promoting good health"), especially whole grains and starches; adequate but not excessive protein; and 20 to 35 percent fat. Learn the components and variables of your ideal diet, with tables of nutritional information and marvelous tidbits, such as calorie/fat counts of various fast foods. Did you realize that an Au Bon Pain pecan roll has 800 calories and 45 grams of fat--double the calories/fat in a serving of KFC's Crispy Strips? Did you know that a Dunkin' Donuts 16-ounce Coffee Coolatta with cream has 410 calories and 22 grams of fat--about equivalent to a McDonald's Quarter-Pounder? Clark, a well-known sports nutrition expert, also covers weight loss, weight gain, eating disorders, and includes 72 recipes. Highly recommended for athletes, exercisers, and average folk who want to understand how to design a personalized diet. --Joan Price

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-18
Summary: "Very Basic"

Didn't like the book, very basic for someone who has no idea how to eat right. The book based on the "Pyramid", it gives general ideas about the right food but does not specify how the same food affects if eaten at different times. Also the metabolic types described very primitive and vague. I wish there would be more useful information instead of just short articles that jump from topic to topic.

---

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-12
Summary: "Awesome information!"

This is a great book with loads of information...you read it and feel like you should know all this already but for some reason, you don't. This book is good if you are looking to lose weight, gain muscle, or just eat properly. You will greatly benefit if you are exercising and not seeing the results that you are expecting. As an extra, you get some recipes in the back of the book. I have this book with me in my car all the time so I can look up something really quick if I need to. Before this book, I read alot of books that basically catered to some supplement or some diet fad...this is the real deal. This book will not tell you not to eat sweets, it will tell you to have alot less of them...and increase your veggies and fruits and whole grains...stuff you should already know but stated in a concise, efficient way. If you are working out and feel you need the right dietary information, get this book. This book has got me looking into becoming a registered dietician, you know, those people you pay alot of money to tell you the same thing as this book!

---

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-26
Summary: "Very good book"

I would recommend this book to other people interested in sports nutrition; it is scientifically written and explained

---

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-11
Summary: "Sound nutrition education"

I was looking for a book that would teach me well grounded, scientific nutrition. The kind of book where I could learn what a nutritionist might learn in school. This book does just that. No fad stuff in here. She actually has a small section where she talks about the most common fad diets today, and points out their short comings(and even their strengths if they have any). I love how the book was organized to teach how to eat daily, before an event, during events, and after events. Some info on eating to lose weight, but this is not really a "diet" book, though I think even those looking to lose weight could benefit from this book. There is also info on how to gain weight if that is what you are looking for.

---

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-08-03
Summary: "Sports Nutrition Guidebook"

I paid for the fastest form of Federal Express delivery because my son needed it for a class that he was taking in New Zealand. He was leaving in a week. The book did not arrive until after he left!!!! I would have thought that the book would have arrived on time. Instead it arrived the day after he left. It would have cost over $100 to then try to mail it to him in New Zealland which I obviously was not going to do so I bought a book that he will never use. The bottom line --- I have no opinion about the book, but the delivery service was horrible!!!! I have received items faster using regular deliver. I found this very disappointing!!!!