2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study of nutritional support for wheelchair athletes

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22700636
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sports science
Research Institution	National Agency for the Advancement of Sports and Health
Principal Investigator	MOTONAGA Keiko 独立行政法人日本スポーツ振興センター国立スポーツ科学センター, スポーツ科学研究部, 契約研究員 (20330516)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	障がい者スポーツ
Research Abstract	Considering of nutritional support for wheelchair athletes, we investigated the dietary environment, eating knowledge, and eating behavior and measured the resting and exercising energy expenditure of two subjects. There was a small restriction of dietary environment, but energy and nutrient intakes were not enough, and there were no information of reference for nutrition support stuff for wheelchair athletes. Further, there was the possibility of rough estimation about energy expenditure for wheelchair athletes by Mets which estimated same way as abled people.

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