Primary Health Care and Essential Nutrition

Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism

Sports nutrition: Sports nutrition is the study and preparation of nutrition and diet in relation to successful health. It centers on the type and the size of fluids and food taken by a sportsperson.

Exercise: Exercise refers to the body activity that improves physical fitness and maintains overall health and wellness. It is implemented to help in development and to increase strength, to avoid aging, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, to enhance athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, to improve health and also for gratification.

Metabolism: Metabolism refers to a collection of life-sustaining chemical reactions in body. The three chief goals of metabolism include conversion of food to energy to carry out cellular processes and functions, the adaptation of food to building blocks for proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and certain carbohydrates, and the removal of metabolic byproducts.

The term metabolism can also state to the sum of all biochemical reactions that arise in living organisms, with ingestion and the carrying of substances into and between different cells. The clusters of reactions that follow within the cells come under intermediary metabolism or intermediate metabolism.

• Fitness
• Nutrition and recovery
• Catabolic Metabolism: The breaking down of compounds.
• Anabolic Metabolism: The building up (production) of compounds