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Infographic. Nutrition and oral health in sport: time for action
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Our recent BJSM editorial stressed that it is ‘time for action’ regarding sports nutrition oral health.1 Oral health is poor in elite athletes and is consistently associated with performance impacts as we have shown across studies involving more than 800 athletes.2–4 This situation exists despite poor oral health being preventable with well-evidenced effective, low-cost strategies.5 Since solutions are readily available why does this situation persist …
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