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The lecture discusses sports nutrition and recommends a high carbohydrate diet for athletes to provide sufficient energy. It emphasizes personalizing diets based on an athlete's goals, activity level, and sport. A high carbohydrate diet requires managing insulin and preventing hypoglycemia. The lecture also provides guidance on protein intake, meal timing, and nutrition programs to support athletic performance and recovery. It discusses using various tests to evaluate cardiorespiratory endurance and strength training levels.

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Conference

The lecture discusses sports nutrition and recommends a high carbohydrate diet for athletes to provide sufficient energy. It emphasizes personalizing diets based on an athlete's goals, activity level, and sport. A high carbohydrate diet requires managing insulin and preventing hypoglycemia. The lecture also provides guidance on protein intake, meal timing, and nutrition programs to support athletic performance and recovery. It discusses using various tests to evaluate cardiorespiratory endurance and strength training levels.

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Name: Aseel Alajmi

ID: 2191117315
The lecture talks about carbohydrate requirements for athletes from different sports and

gives advice about the type of diet which is most appropriate for maintaining and improving

performance in sports. A high carbohydrate diet is recommended for athletes for gaining

sufficient and adequate amount of energy to perform in sports. The regulation of insulin and

hypoglycemia are two major challenges for athletes on high-carbohydrate diet. So, insulin

administration should be considered in hypoglycemic patients and insulin should be administered

before eating. Insulin mechanisms are such that its administration after eating food puts the

person at risk of hypoglycemia. Secondly, the lecture emphasizes on personalization of diet in

accordance with the athlete's activity level, goals, duration, intensity, and type of sport. For high

intensity exertion exercises, high protein sources are recommended to maintain cell activity. If a

person's goal is to lower or maintain body weight, you cannot put them on a high-fat diet. Before

exercising, snacking is recommended such that the snack lead to high glycemic index as glucose

should be available in the snack. It is because exercise burns glucose and uses it for exertion.

Carbohydrates provide glucose to the body and carbohydrate is a more energy efficient fuel than

fats or proteins.

The athletic performance can be improved by ensuring availability of carbs to muscles

and making good food choices. The food choice is important because even if some foods don't

necessarily have high glycemic index but it works in providing energy in many different forms.

For athletes who participate in exercises for 60 minutes or longer time periods, the carbohydrate

recommendation 1 gram per kilo of body weight. For nutrition programs aiming to reduce body

weight, management of body's lean muscle mass needs to be taken into account. It is discussed

that in post-exercise period, basal insulin levels are reduced. For improving performance in

sports, protein sources can be added to breakfast meals. Depending on the athlete's sport type and
intensity, up to 2 gram per kilo of body weight of protein can be recommended. Good sports

nutrition programs can be developed by paying attention to goals of nutrition in sports, types of

training requirements, and collaborating with athletes in order to build support and to have open

conversations with them about sports nutrition. One of the major goals of sports nutrition post

exercise, for example, is muscle recovery and hyperglycemia prevention. An advice for athletes

is given about the need for them to train their gut to tolerate high carb diets in order to maintain

their performance levels. High-altitude training is a specific kind of training in which body's

needs for oxygen are changed and due to low availability of oxygen at high altitude, the

oxidation rate of carbohydrates and proteins is changed. However, it must be noted that

carbohydrate oxidation is more energy efficient than protein oxidation. Carbohydrate

supplementation can be considered for athletic performance if carbohydrate requirements are not

met with food. Low carbohydrate diet is another type of diet which is used for different age

groups. For example, low carbohydrate diets can be considered for age group under 18 years,

under 5 years, adolescents, or for people who are still growing. However, low carbohydrate diet

shouldn't be too low to support body's growth. Finally, the lecture talks about cardiorespiratory

endurance, strength training, and fitness for athletes. With the help of a number of researches and

case studies, the lecture discusses a number of tests that can be used to test endurance and fitness

levels of athletes. An important concept of high maximal oxygen uptake is discussed as a

measure of maximum amount of oxygen utilized by the body which is a measure of

cardiorespiratory endurance. Heart rate measurement is also used as a measure of fitness. For

strength training, the number of repetitions and weights are considered.

The lecture provides excellent knowledge that is useful for athletic performance in sports.

The knowledge is latest and it can be applied in vast variety of cases in hospital care as well as in
healthy athletes. The lecture helps to learn knowledge about carbohydrate diets and risks

associated with such a diet. The lecture’s knowledge empowers us to make informed decisions.

High carb diet is highly recommended for athletic performance and it should be only

implemented with management of risks associated with it and after considering different types of

training, training durations, intensity, oxygen uptake, and the strength level of the athlete

Finally, I met with nutritionists in the lecture, and we exchanged conversations about the

importance of proteins and carbohydrates for athletes, and we concluded that the best diet is (a

high-protein diet

There are many nutrition doctors of different nationalities from Amman, London,

and also Scotland


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