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Nutrition, diet, weight loss and hydration links

USA Swimming has a detailed nutrition article at:

http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=433&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en

Feed Their Brains! A simple guide to teaching nutrition to swimmers.

1. Fueling Your Stroke – The Concept of Buying and Burning Gas

2. Eating Colorful Foods

3. How Much is Enough?

4. Timing is Everything!

5. Choosing the Best Cereals

6. What IS a Serving?

7. FLUIDS - Water vs Sports Drink

8. Analyzing Your Diet

NCAA's Eating On the Go has snack ideas at:

http://www1.ncaa.org/eprise/main/membership/ed_outreach/nutrition-performance/student/nutrition.html

Search nutrition at the Ironman website for lots of recent articles:

http://ironman.com/

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The press release: USA Track and Field announces major change in hydration guidelines 4-19-2003 is at:

http://www.usatf.org/news/showRelease.asp?article=/news/releases/2003-04-19-2.xml

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Columbia University Health Service has loads of info at: http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest at http://cspinet.org/ has nutrition info.

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

http://nnlm.gov/hip

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Men's Health magazine quotes statistics that socializing, playing sports or spending time outdoors lowers your risk of Alzheimer's by 38%. Eating more vitamin E rich foods lowers it 67%. Having a tetanus or diphtheria shot 60%, lowering your systolic blood pressure 56%, and eating a low-fat diet high in fruits and vegetables.

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 Updated Friday, December 25, 2009 at 10:48:06 AM by Mary Donahue - donahuemary@fhda.edu
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