The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide
Subtitle: Peak Performance for Everyone from Beginners to Gold Medalists
Publisher: Wiley
Published: November 11, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780471348085
First sentence: AT AGE 64, RUTH HEIDRICH should be an inspiration to us all.
Description: *Exercise, train, and compete at your best on a vegetarian diet.*

Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes and vegetarians. This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, registered dietitian and elite vegetarian athlete Lisa Dorfman provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training and competition.

*The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide* includes personal stories of athletes who have made the switch to vegetarian diets— from football players and wrestlers to ice skaters and marathoners, some of whom have beaten life-threatening illnesses with the help of this lifestyle. Lisa Dorfman provides a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, easy-to-use charts, and food guides for vegetarians of all types, from the semi-vegetarian to the fruitarian. She also shares the training secrets of seventeen Olympic and world-class athletes who have used their vegetarian diets to achieve peak performance in their careers and optimum health in their lives. 

LISA DORFMAN, M.S., R.D., L.M.H.C., is known nationally as The Running Nutritionist®. She competes in marathons and triathlons nationwide and coaches Olympic-level athletes. She runs her own sports nutrition consulting company, Food Fitness International, and has appeared in and written for over 100 publications, including Running Times and Ladies' Home Journal. She lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and three children.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Bob Beeten, Director, Sports Medicine, United States Olympic Committee
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: Food as Fuel; label: 1
title: The Plant-Based Sports Engine
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Nutrition Prescription for Sport: Calculating Energy Needs
pagenum: 27; label: 3
title: Carbohydrates: The Sports Nutrition Base
pagenum: 39; label: 4
title: Protein: The Fitness Powerhouse
pagenum: 69; label: 5
title: Fat Talk
pagenum: 85; label: 6
title: Thirst Quenchers
pagenum: 105; label: 7
title: The Athlete's Lab: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals
pagenum: 129; label: Part Two
title: Plant-Based Peak Performance; label: 8
title: Supplementing the Sports Machine
pagenum: 157; label: 9
title: Plant-Based Diets: Making the Transition
pagenum: 185; label: 10
title: Competition Time: Plant-Based Diets in Action
pagenum: 205; title: Appendixes; label: A
title: Vegetarian Athletes' Nutritional Profiles
pagenum: 231; label: B
title: Food Fitness Nutritional Activity Assessment Form
pagenum: 250; label: C
title: Sports and Vegetarian Nutrition Resources
pagenum: 253; label: D
title: References
pagenum: 256; title: Index
pagenum: 261