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Open Access
01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
The effects of a sports nutrition education intervention on nutritional status, sport nutrition knowledge, body composition, and performance in NCAA Division I baseball players
Authors:
Jason M Cholewa, Andrew Landreth, Stacy Beam, Taylor Jones, Christopher J MacDonald
Published in:
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Maintaining energy balance by consuming the required distribution of macronutrients (nutritional status) is important to support performance and health in collegiate athletes; however, less than 10% of NCAA athletes possess adequate sports nutrition knowledge or maintain nutritional status (Torres-McGehee et al., 2012). A recent study demonstrated that a sports nutrition education intervention (SNEI) improved nutritional knowledge and nutritional status in Division I volleyball players. This study investigated the effects of an SNEI on nutritional status, knowledge, body composition, and performance in NCAA Division I baseball players. …