Nutrition ano eating habits of athletes of a physical fitness school in Fortaleza- CE
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gymnastics, diet, food habitsAbstract
This paper investigates the knowledge about alimentation and nutrition of athletes who undergo frequent, intense physical activity in a physical fitness school in Fortaleza - CE.Theresults indicate failures in eating habits, observed in the high proportion of inadequately balanced diets which lead to either an excessive or a deficient intake of carbohydrates, proteins andlipids. This research still showed analmosttotal lack of knowledge about nutrition, since athletes do not know which foodstuffs contain macro-nutrients, nor what is their function in the organism.Suggestions aremade about howtheproblem may be minimized.
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