Assignment: Nutrition
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Using what you’ve already learned, complete some additional research about sports nutrition and
answer the following questions:
1. Describe the importance of maintaining a balanced diet for working out.
2. Explain the problems of focusing too strongly on just one or two nutritional areas.
3. Describe the difference between good fats and ‘bad’ fats in terms of physical fitness.
4. Describe how it’s possible to have too much of a ‘good’ nutritional component.
5. Select one area of fitness nutrition and describe why it would be the most important for
you to focus on it in a short term fitness plan.
6. Explain the statement, “All fitness nutrition is the same … it’s different for everyone.”
7. Include a Works Cited page of the information books and/or sites you used for your
information.