Key Nutritional Considerations for Youth Winter Sports Athletes to Optimize Growth, Maturation and Sporting Development

Nutritional considerations for vegetarian athletes.

With the growing interest in the potential health benefits of plant-based diets, it is relevant to consider whether vegetarian dietary practices could influence athletic performance. Accordingly, this review examines whether nutrients that may differ between vegetarian and omnivorous diets could affect physical performance. We also describe recent studies that attempt to assess the effects of a...

Youth Athletes and Sports Medicine: Part 1.

Ask many pediatric providers to serve as part of a sports medicine team, and quite likely you will get a lack of perceived comfort with lamentations over insufficient specific training1 and experience. However, ask those same providers to profess aptitude with injury prevention, discussing growth and development, and using risk-benefit analysis, and you will encounter a far more confident respo...

Youth Athletes and Sports Medicine: Part 2.

Adolescent Growth and Development with Implications for Youth Sports Coaches

The past 20 years have witnessed a rapid growth in youth and school based sports. With about 60 million American youth participating in organized sports, the need has never been greater for coaches that understand the rapid physical and emotional changes that occur during adolescence, especially during peak height velocity. The purpose of this commentary is to advocate for applying scientific p...

Nutritional Considerations for Performance in Young Athletes

Nutrition is an integral component to any athletes training and performance program. In adults the balance between energy intake and energy demands is crucial in training, recovery, and performance. In young athletes the demands for training and performance remain but should be a secondary focus behind the demands associated with maintaining the proper growth and maturation. Research interventi...