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On the ground at the 2024 Olympics: Female athlete nutrition
โWomen competed for the first time at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris,โ Sharonย Madigan, PhD, science lead for Team Ireland and nutrition advisor to several competing athletes, told NutraIngredients.ย โNowย weโreย here 124 years later in Paris, andย itโsย a completely even splitย whichย is fantastic,โ she said.ย As Madigan noted inย a recent reviewโ, the number of women competing in the…
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Research uncovers sport supplement habits of female road cyclists
Using a validated questionnaire, researchers from Seville, Spain, assessed the frequency with whichย 316 federated female road cyclistsย tookย SS as well as the types of supplements and the reasoning forย supplementation. Results published in the journalย Nutrientsโย showed that as many as 85.1% of the female road cyclists surveyed used SS.ย The primary reasonย givenย for supplementationย was for health status, with athletic performance…
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MyProtein: Breaking stereotypes and empowering women in sports nutrition
There is a mindset difference across genders, where women often believe their workouts lack the intensity that warrants sports nutrition support, Brett Hamer, product director of the nutrition division at THG, told the audience at the recent Barentz health and wellbeing seminar on womenโs health in Gstaad, Switzerland.ย MyProtein is actively working to educate individuals…
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Myprotein: Breaking stereotypes and empowering women in sports nutrition
There is a mindset difference across genders, where women often believe their workouts lack the intensity that warrants sports nutrition support, Brett Hamer, product director of the nutrition division at THG, told the audience at the recent Barentz health and wellbeing seminar on womenโs health in Gstaad, Switzerland.ย Myprotein is actively working to educate individuals…
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Gencor aims to โeven the playing fieldโ with solutions for female athletes
Presenting at the Biogredia symposium on womenโs health last week in Gstaad, Switzerland, she said that it is critical to consider theย impact of the menstrual cycle when looking at womenโs health and even more so in female athletes. โUtilisation of carbohydrates and fats can differ from day two to day 28 of a cycle, so…
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Caffeine improves performance indicators in female volleyball athletes
The randomised, double-blind, crossover study, published in the journalย Nutrientsโ, assessed the effect of supplementing with 5 mg/kg body weight caffeine over one week of training. The authors from Spain found that the impact of caffeine intake improved the well-being, physical performance and perception of fatigue in the women’s volleyball team athletes.ย Female-focused research neededย โ Caffeine…