Fuel For Young Athletes

Young athletes are always on the go. School, family, and sports eat up a lot of time. For parents and coaches, it can be a challenge to make sure kids are eating healthfully enough to perform at their best on and off the field. Fueling Young Athletes provides the help you need. In this practical guide, Heather Mangieri—a sport dietitian and mother of three active kids—breaks down the nutrition needs of young athletes and explains what the latest research suggests. You’ll analyze current eating habits and preferences and how and where these can be improved. You’ll learn how healthier meals and snacks can equate to improved performance while still being convenient and appetizing. Fueling Young Athletes addresses the issues that families and athletes most often face, such as late-night practices, inconvenient school lunchtimes, demanding tournament schedules and travel leagues, and lack of sleep. Best of all, you’ll find a collection of easy recipes for smoothies and sport drinks, all with common ingredients and nutrition information. Weight management, supplementation, fueling, hydration—it’s all here. Fueling Young Athletes is practical and realistic. If you are a parent or coach, it’s the one guide you should not be without.

From breakfast to dinner and everything in between, this title will work up young athletes' appetites with a tasty look at using food as fuel. Bright, colorful photos will entice readers as they learn the value of eating from each of the major food groups for a balanced diet. Readers will also gain an understanding of how water, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein, and fats work together to give their bodies energy and help them grow. Engaging chapters present healthy, pregame and postgame meal and snack ideas and approach essential safety issues, from dehydration to eating disorders, in a straightforward, positive light. Smart sidebars highlight additional opportunities for exploring sports nutrition, while a full-page spread offers ideas from the Let's Move! campaign for a more active lifestyle. This title will leave readers feeling inspired to get moving! Bolded glossary terms, phonetic spellings, and an index are included. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Good nutritional habits can make a significant impact on athletic performance. This is particularly true for growing youth athletes. When planning what to feed young athletes, parents and coaches not only need to consider the demands of the activity itself, but also the nutritional requirements for growth and development. Research shows that many child athletes don't consume enough calories to sustain exercise and growth effectively. Busy lifestyles rushing from work/school to training can also present challenges for parents and coaches when planning what to feed children. This book provides an easy to follow guide to help parents and coaches determine exactly how much food and drink to provide, what type of foods and when to feed their aspiring athletes. The information in this book is supported by the most up-to-date scientific research and covers topics including: *macronutrient and micronutrient requirements*weight management*eating disorders *hydration *supplements and ergogenic aids*nutritional timingThe book also contains over 25 simple to make healthy recipes to help fuel your young athletes and optimise performance.

It’s hard keeping up with the nutritional needs for kids, and even harder getting them to actually eat many of these foods. Learn how to get your athlete on the right track. With athletic kids, there’s even more to pay attention to! Most young athletes are not eating properly to compete--too many convenient but empty calories that are doing them more harm than good. As a result, these young athletes are losing energy when they should be increasing it, feeling deterred when they should be motivated, and decreasing muscle mass when they need it more than ever. Fortunately, with the right nutrition, young athletes can increase their energy, bolster their motivation, gain muscle mass, overcome fatigue, and improve their performance. Registered dietitian and childhood nutrition expert Jill Castle has written this must-read resource for every parent of active kids ages eight through eighteen. In Eat Like a Champion, parents will find help in: Tailoring diets for training, competition, and even off-season Finding the best food options, whether at home or on the go Addressing counterproductive or unhealthy patterns Understanding where supplements, sports drinks, and performance-enhancing substances do--and don’t--fit in Complete with charts, recipes, and practical meal and snack ideas that can help athletic youngsters eat to win, Eat Like a Champion just may be the difference-maker in your athlete’s next game!

Aimed at the needs of school-aged athletes, this book is a nutrition guide, menu planner and recipe book all in one volume.

Healthy youngsters are active youngsters, and active youngsters need a healthy diet. This comprehensive guide gives parents and coaches the knowledge they need to help 8-18 year-olds maintain a healthy, active lifestyle and to achieve in sport. Building on her seminal book Eat to Compete, Jeni Pearce provides an easy-to-follow plan for eating healthily. After outlining the benefits of an active lifestyle, the emphasis is on supporting that lifestyle with a healthy diet. While special guidance is given on how to help those who are either over or under weight, and those with eating problems, all young athletes will benefit from the general advice contained in this book, regardless of whether or not they are involved in organised sport.

Provides a nutrition program for high school and child athletes to develop good health and optimal athletic performance.

As the number of child and adolescent athletes continues to increase each year, more children are being exposed to greater training volumes and increasing physical demands-making the need for nutritional and recovery guidance increasingly important. While massive amounts of empirical research are published each year on responses and adaptations to