Females and males: Should nutritional recommendations be gender specific?

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin und Sporttraumatologie

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-46

  Tarnopolsky, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLYCOGEN; LIPID; PROTEIN;

ATHLETE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; SPORT; TRAINING;

EID: 0037248219     PISSN: 14220644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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