Food for Sports Performance DVD

Understanding how foods and nutrients enhance sports performance

Suitable for GCSE students, this DVD explains the key role that foods and nutrients play in enhancing physical performance and sporting success.

It deals with:

• A healthy balanced diet - including the appropriate combination of bread/cereals, fruits, vegetables, dairy products and meat; avoids saturated fats, sugar and salt
• Reaching peak performance - physically, mentally, emotionally and socially
• The nature of nutrients - sources and functions of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals, dietary fibre, fats and lipids, and water
• Nutrients for fuel - comparing uses of carbohydrate; fat; protein; water; salts, sugar and fat-rich foods
• Meeting your energy requirements - role of ATP as basic building block of energy in our body; outline of ATP-PC system, anaerobic glycolysis and aerobic energy system; how different activities have different nutritional requirements
• The consequences of nutritional imbalance - causes of obesity; physical health issues linked to obesity, poor diet and performance-enhancing drugs.