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With playoffs approaching, the Wall Street
Journal revealed (by subscription) how
the diet of football players has changed over the years, as players in the NFL have faced fad diets and had to meet
increasingly high physical standards. The new approach to feeding players is a "nutrient timing" strategy.
This approach is designed to continually replenish the body with the nutrients, carbohydrates and proteins
that are consumed during workouts, as well as other daily activities. Nutrient timing is gaining
popularity in other sports, as well as simply among anyone who exercises on a regular basis.
The meals and snacks on the players' diet aren't the tater-tots and chicken wings that were served to players who wanted to "bulk up" in the 1980s and 1990s, though. As regulatory groups crack down on the use of performance enhancing substances, the teams look to nutritionists to maximise their abilities. Protein filled snacks include peanut butter sandwiches and yogurt, while balanced dinners have options like roasted pork loin and baked cod with red pepper coulis, accompanied by sides like potatoes and salad.
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1-08-2006 @12:23AM Mart said... that seems to be a WSJ subscriber-only article.
Those NFL players look far too fat (and muscle-bound) compared to many other top-flight sports in the world. Look at the physiques of soccer players, or rugby or Australian rules football players. The stamina and speed required by those players demands probably far greater emphasis on nutrition in their diets to optimize performance. Whatever the WSJ article reports, (I'm not a subscriber, so I don't know what the article says) I'm sure the NFL is lagging in its attention to players' diets compared to many other sports.
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1-08-2006 @12:45AM Nicole Weston said... I did note that the actual article was by subscription only, but the point of it is that they are paying more and more attention to the diets of players. They don't want them to be or be perceived as a bunch of fat guys running around a big field. American football players have vastly different physical requirements than footballers (soccer, AFL etc. players), but that doesn't mean that they're not in shape or, at the very least, trying to get there.
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