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Nutrition in sport.
  1. Peter Fricker
  1. Head, Sports Science and Sports Medicine, Australian Institute of Sport Canberra, Australia, Chair of Sports Medicine, University of Canberra, Deputy Medical Director, Australian Olympic Team

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    Ed Ronald J Maughan. (Pp 680; £69.50.) Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2000. ISBN 0632050942.

    “A comprehensive review of the role of nutrition in sport and exercise” is promised at the beginning of the text, and, in my opinion, the promise is delivered.

    The editor, Ron Maughan, from University Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen is an established authority in exercise physiology and nutrition, and he has assembled no less than 65 experts (including himself) to produce this work for the IOC and FIMS, which represents volume VII of the Encyclopaedia of sports medicine. Every contributor has solid …

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