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Nutrition Knowledge of the Students of the Faculty of Kinesiology at Zagreb University and Croatian Basketball Coaches

Nowadays the idea of nutrition is often associated with the top sports result. Nutrition is considered to be one of essential factors of success for each single sportsman in his sports career. Every training process causes an intensified metabolic, physical and psychical exhaustion. The objective of this research is to determine the level of knowledge on nutrition, smoking habits and consumption of alcoholic beverages of the students of the Faculty of Kinesiology at Zagreb University and Croatian basketball coaches. The respondents were divided in two sample groups. The first sample group consisted of the students of the Faculty of Kinesiology at Zagreb University (n = 100), and the other sample group were Croatian basketball coaches (n = 61). The knowledge of the sports nutrition and eating habits has been determined through the corresponding questionnaire. The purpose of the questionnaire was to determine the knowledge level on nutrition, of the parts of a nutrition diet which enables the sportsmen to get enough energy for their training and competition, of various food additives, of the meals taken before, during and after competitions and of compensation of the loss of fluids.

nutrition ; nutrition knowledge ; students ; coaches ; basketball

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