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Food Components to Enhance Performance: An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations (1994)
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. "Appendix A: Scenarios that Illustrate Potential Usefulness of Food Components to Enhance Performance." Food Components to Enhance Performance: An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1994.

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Food Components to Enhance Performance: An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations
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Front Matter (R1-R16)
I. Committee Summary and Recommendations (1-2)
1. Introduction and Background (3-46)
2. Conclusions and Recommendations (47-62)
II. Background and Introduction to the Topic (63-64)
3. Nutritional Enhancement of Soldier Performance at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, 1985-1992 (65-76)
4. Optimizing the Design of Combat Rations (77-92)
5. Biochemical Strategies for Ration Design: Concerns of Bioavailability (93-110)
III. Military Issues (111-112)
6. Evaluation of Physical Performance (113-126)
7. The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Performance During Continuous Combat Operations (127-136)
8. The Role of Context in Behavioral Effects of Foods (137-158)
IV. Stress and Nutrient Interactions: Metabolic Consequences (159-160)
9. Stress and Monoamine Neurons in the Brain (161-176)
10. Endocrine and Immune System Response to Stress (177-208)
11. The Metabolic Responses to Stress and Physical Activity (209-220)
V. Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components (221-222)
12. Food Components That May Optimize Physical Preformance: An Overview (223-238)
13. Effects of Nutrients on Neurotransmitter Release (239-262)
14. Performance-Enhancing Effects of Protein and Amino (263-276)
15. Tyrosine and Stress: Human and Animal Studies (277-300)
16. Tyrosine and Glucose Modulation of Cognitive Deficits Resulting from Cold Stress (301-320)
17. Carbohydrates, Protein, and Performance (321-350)
18. Structured Lipids: An Overview and Comments on Performance Enhancement Potential (351-380)
19. Choline: Human Requirements and Effects on Human Performance (381-406)
20. Effects of Caffeine on Cognitive Performance, Mood, and Alertness in Sleep-Deprived Humans (407-432)
21. The Role of Carnitine in Enhancing Physical Performance (433-452)
VI. Safety and Regulatory Aspects of Potential Ration Enhancement (453-454)
22. Safety Concerns Regarding Supplemental Amino Acids: Results of a Study (455-460)
23. Regulatoin of Amino Acids and Other Dietary Components Associated with Enhanced Physical Performance (461-474)
Appendixes (475-476)
Appendix A: Scenarios that Illustrate Potential Usefulness of Food Components to Enhance Performance (477-480)
Appendix B: Military Recommended Dietary Allowances (481-500)
Appendix C: A Selected Bibliography on an Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing food Components for Operational Rations (501-514)
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches (515-528)
Index (529-544)