This book summarizes the latest meeting of the world's leading researchers in sports nutrition, held at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The aim of the conference was to review the latest developments in the world of sport nutrition, to follow up on developments since the previous 1991 conference, and to draw up guidelines to help athletes and coaches optimise their performance by using nutrition to support training and maximise performance in competition.

Subjects discussed in this cutting-edge collection include:

* energy balance and body composition...

Nutrition and Football is a FIFA endorsed book which provides the first formal scientific consensus on players' energy use fluid, and optimal nutritional requirements. Including:

• nutrition for pre-season, training, match play and in different climates
• analysis of the energy and metabolic demands of players in different positions
• water and electrolyte requirements
• strategies to balance effects of stress, over training and over playing
• ideal body composition in professional football
• analysis and interventions to counter...