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Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition, Paperback / softback Book

Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition Paperback / softback

Edited by Sourya Datta, Debasis Bagchi

Paperback / softback

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Two crucial components of a healthy life are nutrition and exercise.

The importance of appropriate diet, food and nutrition are extremely important to be successful in sports, and, especially, in extreme sports.

Extreme sport is an activity where a participant must demonstrate both mental and physical skills.

This type of activity provides an adrenaline rush to individuals who are part of the "community of extreme sportsmen."Extreme sports provide opportunity for individuals to be active and fit with added enjoyment of partaking in a fun activity.

Extreme sports in conjunction with proper nutrition helps to boost immunity and resistance against common infections.

Studies have also exhibited that sports and exercise activities help in managing effective work-life balance as well.

Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition provides a comprehensive treatise on extreme sports emphasizing the importance of nutrition and research-driven nutraceutical supplements in injury prevention and treatment.

The book presents information on the nutritional requirements of sports activities on land, in water, or with high altitude-base.

It covers a wide variety of definitions, philosophies, thoughts and practices involved with structurally diverse extreme sports. Features:Discusses specific food and nutritional requirements in extreme sportsProvides information on the importance of functional foods, nutrition and structurally diverse phytonutrients for different sports Features information on Olympic and diverse extreme sportsDetails the importance of hydration and use of gelatin; skeletal muscle damage and recovery from eccentric contractions; and information on dietary supplements and antioxidants Presents analysis on growth, marketing, techniques, and future of extreme sports

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