Nutrition for Sports and Exercise (Healthy Eating, a Guide to Nutrition)

A hundred years ago, people received nutritional guidance from mothers and grandmothers: Eat your carrots because they’re good for your eyes; don’t eat too many potatoes because they’ll make you fat; be sure to get plenty of roughage so you can more easily move your bowels. Today, everyone seems to off er more advice: Take a vitamin supplement to optimize your health; don’t eat fi sh with cabbage because you won’t be able to digest them together; you can’t stay healthy on a vegetarian diet.