Habits and nutrition knowledge of adolescent performance swimmers

Autor: M. Ocaña, R. Folle, C. Saldaña
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: European Journal of Human Movement, Vol 23 (2010)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2386-4095
Popis: The aim of this study was to assess the general eating habits and the nutritional knowledge of a group of adolescent performance swimmers. 20 swimmers (10 men, 10 women, mean age: 14.85 years, SD = 1.5) and 20 controls performance sport activities (11 men, 9 women, average age: 14.50 years, SD =0.68) participated in this study. Nutritional Knowledge Questionnaire (Bach, 2003), Knowledge and Attitudes on Nutrition Questionnaire (Zawila, 2003) and an adaptation of the Lifestyles Project OBA questionnaire (cf. Sánchez-Carracedo and Saldaña, 1998 ) were used. The results showed that swimmers had an average nutrition knowledge and they were generally better informed about nutrition (p
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