About Advanced Sports Nutrition

Insights from Advanced Sports Nutrition will keep your body running on the highest grade fuel every time you train or compete. In this comprehensive guide, World renowned sports nutritionist Dr Dan Benardot cuts through nutritional mumbo jumbo, preferring food-based nutrition to gimmicky supplements. Bardot, who worked with the gold-medal-winning women's gymnastics team at the 1996 Olympic Games (Atlanta) and with the medal- winning USA marathoners at the 2004 Olympic Games (Athens), helps you determine optimal rations and quantities of energy nutrients, vitamins and minerals to maintain energy balance and achieve optimal performance.

About the Author

Dan Benardot, PhD, DHC, RD, LD, FACSM, is an associate professor in the nutrition division of the School of Health Professions at Georgia State University and an associate professor in the department of kinesiology and health.