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Stephen Seiler, Institute for Sport, Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway |
Sportscience News this month is dominated by
conference reports. We present separate reports from the
XII FINA World Swimming
Conference, the 10th International
Conference on the Biochemistry of Muscle, and the
Training and Competing in the
Mystery Zone meeting, a USOC-ACSM one-day summit held earlier
this summer. Among our column features, Louise Burke's
Compeat sports nutrition column
this month explains why the simple-complex classification system for
carbohydrates should be replaced with the glycemic index for the
athlete planning nutritional strategies. In
History Makers, Frank
Katch describes a groundbreaking experiment in nutrition that had
far-reaching implications. Thousands of lives were saved and
the controlled clinical trial was born.
On the
Research Resource page,
Will Hopkins has come up with a new way to
analyze crossovers that takes
into account (and estimates) any learning effect. It's much better
than using a paired t test.
Does it help to
take baking soda before a high-intensity event? Lars
Mc Naughton and colleagues present the evidence on
neutralizing acid to enhance
peformance, on the Training & Technology pages.
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