Eating Disorders in Athletes
Chapter One
Good Eating Habits
in Sport
Joaquín Dosil and Juan Jose Crespo
Despite having reached a relatively high level in my sport, there is still a lack of nutritional
guidance. Sometimes the conversation crops up at training and people give you the odd
piece of advice about what you should eat, what you shouldn't, and any supplements they
assure work wonders for them. But nobody puts all of this lose information together and
applies it to you, as an individual athlete, in a structured manner. Coaches are often too
quick to say when you are a little over weight, telling you to 'watch what you're eating', or
even that you are too skinny, 'make sure you're eating enough'. What's the real practicality
of these remarks? All too often the first comments I hear from fellow female athletes following
a bad training session or race is 'I'm too fat'. Perhaps this indicates the constant
underlying risk of eating disorders in sport.
International Athlete (middle-distance running)
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