Our Love & Hate Relationship with FOOD! Holiday Series: Part 2
Under-Eating & Performance The term malnutrition is used to describe a deficiency, excess or imbalance of a wide range of nutrients, resulting in measurable adverse effects on body composition, function and clinical outcome. (Saunders, etal, 2010) Malnutrition does affect the function and restorative abilities of every organ system in the body. The most common reason for an athlete or active adult to under-eat is to maintain and/or lose weight. However, because most athletes aren’t knowledgeable about how nutritional needs…
