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Nutrition Essentials for Athletes: PE-101AA

This document is the introduction to an online nutrition course presented by Anjani Dubey. It discusses that nutrition is important for athletes to provide energy for training, performance, and recovery. Nutrition involves the food factors or nutrients required for growth, development, and maintenance of the body. Nutrients are divided into macro nutrients like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and micro nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and water. The course will cover these nutrients and their relationship to health, metabolism, growth, and tissue repair.

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Nutrition Essentials for Athletes: PE-101AA

This document is the introduction to an online nutrition course presented by Anjani Dubey. It discusses that nutrition is important for athletes to provide energy for training, performance, and recovery. Nutrition involves the food factors or nutrients required for growth, development, and maintenance of the body. Nutrients are divided into macro nutrients like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and micro nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and water. The course will cover these nutrients and their relationship to health, metabolism, growth, and tissue repair.

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

KANPUR
PHYSICAL EDUCATION SECTION

ONLINE PE-101AA COURSE


ON

NUTRITION - Part 1
By

Anjani Dubey

Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur


Nutrition
Introduction

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art

~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur


➢ A science of food and its relationship to health. It is
concerned with the food factors (nutrients) required to body
for growth, development and maintenance.
➢ Nutrition is important for athletes because it is a source of
energy required for training, performance and recovery.
➢ Nutritional requirement affected by age, gender, physique,
level of physical activity and state of health.

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Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur


Growth

Nutrition Metabolism
(Food we catabolism Muscular
eat and Fuel and Movements
Drink) anabolism

Tissue
Repair

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Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur
Nutrients
Introduction

➢ 50 different nutrients supplied by foods to our body


➢ Most of the foods contain more than one nutrient
➢ Nutrients are mainly divided into two parts
▪ Macro nutrients (Proximate Principles)
▪ Micro nutrients (Small quantity)

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Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur


Macro-Nutrients
Carbohydrates Fats Proteins
45-65% 10-30% 7-15%

Micro-Nutrients

Vitamins Minerals Water

Physical Education Online course (PE-101AA), IIT Kanpur

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