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IV Underconsumption and Performance
Pages 251-252

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... Using fewer studies than those available to assess physical performance, the author finds that cognitive performance may be degraded when lowered energy intake leads to weight loss in excess of 10 percent of initial body weight. In the final chapter of this section, the author uses data collected on athletes to show that caloric underconsumption has negative effects on lean body mass and physical performance.
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... an adequate supply of protein, vitamins, lean body mass. and minerals and a minimal loss of
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  • cognitive performance
  • performance tasks
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  • assessing physical

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  • cognitive test
  • loss approaches
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  • body mass
  • energy intake
  • initial weight
  • negative effects

  • methodological issues
  • author reviews
  • final chapter
  • intake leads
  • establishing cognitive

  • body fat
  • tasks themselves
  • caloric underconsumption
  • lean body
  • lowered energy

  • fewer studies
  • assess physical
  • test standardization
  • using fewer
  • adverse physical


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