Regina Belski - Nutrition for Sport, Exercise and Performance: A practical guide for students, sports enthusiasts and professionals

First published in 2019

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Regina Belski

Associate Professor Regina Belski is an Advanced Sports Dietitian, Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and founding course director of Dietetics at Swinburne University of Technology. Regina has worked as a sports dietitian for over a decade with athletes from Olympic level through to weekend warriors. She is also a passionate researcher in sports nutrition, working on building the evidence base for the efficacy of sports dietitians, having recently led the team who developed and published the Nutrition for Sport Knowledge Questionnaire (NSKQ). Reginas contribution to nutrition education and teaching excellence has been further recognised by a National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching.

Adrienne Forsyth

Dr Adrienne Forsyth is a senior lecturer in the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University, where she coordinates the Bachelor of Human Nutrition and leads sports nutrition teaching and research. Adrienne is an Advanced Sports Dietitian and Accredited Exercise Physiologist with research interests spanning sports and clinical nutrition, community health and education. She is an award-winning educator with a focus on creating engaging learning experiences to cultivate work-ready graduates.

Evangeline Mantzioris

Dr Evangeline Mantzioris is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and an Accredited Sports Dietitian. With over 25 years practice in dietetics, she has experience in clinical dietetics, clinical teaching and private practice. She is now Program Director of the Nutrition and Food Science Degree at the University of South Australia, where she has taught many courses in nutrition, including sports nutrition. She is also on the editorial board of the journal Nutrition and Dietetics.

AUTHORS

Rebekah Alcock

Rebekah Alcock is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian who is in her final year as a PhD student with the Australian Catholic University. Rebekah is also currently embedded at the Australian Institute of Sport as a PhD scholar. The topic of her doctorate is nutrition support for connective tissues in athletes, and she has a keen interest in nutrition support for rehabilitation from injury. Rebekah also currently works as the Melbourne Rebels Performance Dietitian.

Elizabeth Broad

Dr Liz Broad has been Senior Sports Dietitian, US Paralympics at the US Olympic Committee, since August 2013 and has worked at two Olympic Games and four Paralympic Games (London with Team Australia, and Sochi, Rio and PyeongChang with Team USA). Liz has been a sports dietitian for 25 years and is a Fellow of Sports Dietitians Australia, working with a wide range of sports in Australia, Scotland and the USA from development through to professional and elite Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Liz is also a Level 3 anthropometrist and has contributed to several book chapters and research articles, including being editor of Sports Nutrition for Paralympic Athletes.

Louise M. Burke, OAM

Professor Louise Burke, OAM, was the inaugural Head of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport, leading the team for almost three decades. She remains as Chief of Nutrition Strategy at the AIS and holds a Chair in Sports Nutrition at the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research at the Australian Catholic University. She has over 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as 20 books. Her primary research areas include nutritional periodisationfat adaptation, fluid needs for optimal performance, carbohydrate metabolism and performance of exercise, and performance supplements. Louise is a director of the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition.

Anthea Clarke

Dr Anthea Clarke is a lecturer in the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University. Anthea is accredited as both a sports scientist and exercise scientist with Exercise and Sports Science Australia. Anthea teaches in a variety of sport and exercise science subdisciplines, including sport and exercise physiology, sports analytics and performance analysis. Her research interests are in the areas of applied physiology and performance analysis in team sports, with a focus on the female athlete.

Matthew Cooke

Dr Matthew Cooke is a new senior lecturer at Swinburne University. Matthew has co-authored three book chapters and published over 35 papers and 60 abstracts in the area of exercise training and nutrition interventions in healthy, diseased and older populations. Matthews current work focuses on nutrigenomics and the manipulation of energy balance in the understanding, prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases.

Michelle Cort

Michelle Cort is an Advanced Sports Dietitian who currently works as the lead sports performance dietitian for Cricket Australia. Michelles career has involved working within professional team sports and organisations as part of their high-performance units. She has worked with several Australian Football League (AFL), National Rugby League (NRL) and Super Rugby teams. Michelle also spent five years working at the AIS and attended the 2016 Olympics as part of the Australian sailing team support staff. Michelle has been a member of the AFL Anti-Doping Advisory Group and is a sessional lecturer in sports nutrition at various universities.

Gregory Cox

Dr Gregory Cox is an Associate Professor at Bond University having worked at the Australian Institute of Sport for 20 years. He has extensive experience in providing performance nutrition support to athletes in numerous sports and is the Nutrition Lead for Triathlon Australia. Greg has attended three Olympics and was Nutrition Lead for the Australian Olympic Team at Rio 2016. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and lay publications. Greg is curious about athletes nutrition habits and behaviours, their iron status, and dietary manipulations that enhance endurance exercise. He is a Fellow of Sports Dietitians Australia and continues to be competitive in endurance sports, having held both world and Australian titles in triathlon and surf lifesaving.

Ben Desbrow

Associate Professor Ben Desbrow is the program convenor of the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Hon) program at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. Following a decade of work as a clinical dietitian, Ben was awarded the first Nestl Fellowship in Sports Nutrition at the AIS. Ben is an Advanced Sports Dietitian and active researcher in the areas of applied sports and clinical nutrition.