Nutritive Support of Young Sportsmen Using a Specialized Russian Product

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Nutritive support of young sportsmen using a specialized Russian product Author affiliation: Svetlana Gennad'evna Makarova, PhD, leading research fellow at the pediatric nutrition department of the SCCH Address: 2, Lomonosovskii Ave., Moscow, 119991, tel.: +7 (499) The issue of adequate nutrition for children going in for sports is rather urgent. Despite the developed dietary recommendations for children sportsmen [1][2][3], literature data and evaluation of real diet of such children showed that the real consumption of macro-and micronutrients is considerably different from the recommended norms [4][5][6][7]. The main reasons of insufficient consumption of certain nutrients are intensive training regimen, which impedes compliance with the necessary dietary pattern (in almost all children), selective appetite, food allergy or intolerance, whereas diet of a child or an adolescent actively going in for sports ought to provide the body with the necessary amount of calories and nutrients, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates (macronutrients), mineral substances, vitamins and other vital bioactive food factors (micronutrients) and ensure natural processes of its growth and development. Moreover, it ought to cover the additional caloric and plastic needs in order to compensate for physical stress, muscle bulk upbuilding, psychoemotional stress and strain. Unfortunately, the analysis we conducted previously showed that the most unsatisfactory diet is observed among adolescent sportsmen, i.e. in the most difficult body development periodpuberty, which is even further complicated by considerably training and competitive stress. A child's growing body reacts especially rapidly to shortage or excess of certain nutrients in a diet with physical or emotional developmental disability, malfunction of the organs vital for homeostasis and decrease in immunity. Imbalanced nutrition in such a situation is a real threat to a child's health and, without any doubt, affects sports results [5][6][7]. We developed a complex personified approach aimed at correcting a child's diet in the course of individual consultations based on evaluation of the real diet, its chemical composition and individual preferences: body weight composition parameters (bioimpedance analysis) and the malfunctions of a child's body organs and systems revealed in the course of examination. Threpsological approach is based on the formation of an adequate diet out of regular wholesome products. However, one of the dietary issues of young sportsmen to be resolved is to provide a child with all the necessary macro-and micronutrients in a compact form. This issue is especially critical for high-level sportsmen in the process of intensive physical training, when demand of proteins, vitamins and mineral substances considerably increases in the setting of reduced ability to observe an adequate diet due to intensive training regimen. This creates a demand of using special products enriched with a certain set of nutrients. At the same time, there is a deficit of trials em...