Food Components to Enhance Performance:

An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations

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Publication Year:1994

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Bernadette M. Marriott, Editor; Committee on Military Nutrition Research, Food and Nutrition Board
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The physiological or psychological stresses that employees bring to their workplace affect not only their own performance but that of their co-workers and others. These stresses are often compounded by those of the job itself. Medical personnel, firefighters, police, and ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
I. Committee Summary and Recommendations	1-2	(skim)
1. Introduction and Background	3-46	(skim)
2. Conclusions and Recommendations	47-62	(skim)
II. Background and Introduction to the Topic	63-64	(skim)
3. Nutritional Enhancement of Soldier Performance at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, 1985-1992	65-76	(skim)
4. Optimizing the Design of Combat Rations	77-92	(skim)
5. Biochemical Strategies for Ration Design: Concerns of Bioavailability	93-110	(skim)
III. Military Issues	111-112	(skim)
6. Evaluation of Physical Performance	113-126	(skim)
7. The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Performance During Continuous Combat Operations	127-136	(skim)
8. The Role of Context in Behavioral Effects of Foods	137-158	(skim)
IV. Stress and Nutrient Interactions: Metabolic Consequences	159-160	(skim)
9. Stress and Monoamine Neurons in the Brain	161-176	(skim)
10. Endocrine and Immune System Response to Stress	177-208	(skim)
11. The Metabolic Responses to Stress and Physical Activity	209-220	(skim)
V. Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components	221-222	(skim)
12. Food Components That May Optimize Physical Preformance: An Overview	223-238	(skim)
13. Effects of Nutrients on Neurotransmitter Release	239-262	(skim)
14. Performance-Enhancing Effects of Protein and Amino	263-276	(skim)
15. Tyrosine and Stress: Human and Animal Studies	277-300	(skim)
16. Tyrosine and Glucose Modulation of Cognitive Deficits Resulting from Cold Stress	301-320	(skim)
17. Carbohydrates, Protein, and Performance	321-350	(skim)
18. Structured Lipids: An Overview and Comments on Performance Enhancement Potential	351-380	(skim)
19. Choline: Human Requirements and Effects on Human Performance	381-406	(skim)
20. Effects of Caffeine on Cognitive Performance, Mood, and Alertness in Sleep-Deprived Humans	407-432	(skim)
21. The Role of Carnitine in Enhancing Physical Performance	433-452	(skim)
VI. Safety and Regulatory Aspects of Potential Ration Enhancement	453-454	(skim)
22. Safety Concerns Regarding Supplemental Amino Acids: Results of a Study	455-460	(skim)
23. Regulatoin of Amino Acids and Other Dietary Components Associated with Enhanced Physical Performance	461-474	(skim)
Appendixes	475-476	(skim)
Appendix A: Scenarios that Illustrate Potential Usefulness of Food Components to Enhance Performance	477-480	(skim)
Appendix B: Military Recommended Dietary Allowances	481-500	(skim)
Appendix C: A Selected Bibliography on an Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing food Components for Operational Rations	501-514	(skim)
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches	515-528	(skim)
Index	529-544	(skim)

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The physiological or psychological stresses that employees bring to their workplace affect not only their own performance but that of their co-workers and others. These stresses are often compounded by those of the job itself. Medical personnel, firefighters, police, and military personnel in combat settings--among others--experience highly unpredictable timing and types of stressors.
This book reviews and comments on the performance-enhancing potential of specific food components. It reflects the views of military and non-military scientists from such fields as neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, various medical specialties, and performance psychology on the most up-to-date research available on physical and mental performance enhancement in stressful conditions. Although placed within the context of military tasks, the volume will have wide-reaching implications for individuals in any job setting.

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