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Nutrition and supplementation

Nutrition and supplementation were the subject of a recent presentation I did at the ACHPER Stage 6 conference. Now that I have presented, I wanted to write an article that looked at just one (1) image that I used in my presentation - the sports nutrition pyramid (see above). I came across this image during a [...]

Supplementation and Performance

By Dan Jackson|2016-02-22T06:56:03+10:00February 23rd, 2016|Articles, Factors Affecting Performance, How can nutrition and recovery strategies affect performance?, HSC PDHPE|Comments Off on Supplementation and Performance

There are many questions that relate to supplementation and performance with the most obvious being: do they work? The problem that we have in making this assessment comes with the lack of regulation of supplements (much like the lack of regulation around many complementary and alternative health care). The contents of a supplement vary widely [...]