Table Of ContentNUTRITIONAL ERGOGENIC
AIDS
Edited by
IRA WOLINSKY
JUDY A.DRISKELL
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Preface
Never was there a subject in the field of sports nutrition that has commanded more
attention, interest and speculation than the topic of nutritional ergogenic aids. Often,
pursuit of the intricacies of this topic has generated more heat than light. There is a vast
number of ergogenic aids to consider; however, we have focused on the more common
ones and assembled a roster of the best authors to discuss individual nutritional ergogenic
aids. The first chapter in the book deals expertly with definitions and regulatory issues.
The nutritional ergogenic aids are then divided into three broad categories to facilitate
logical coverage: amino acid derivatives, lipid derivatives and other substances in foods
not classified as essential. A chapter on the systematic and critical evaluation of benefits
and possible risks of nutritional ergogenic aids follows. Hopefully, this volume will
provide the reader and researcher with a reference book on the subject, a summary of the
latest results and a possible basis for consensus. Sports nutritionists, sports medicine and
fitness professionals, researchers, students, health practitioners and the informed layman
will find this book timely and useful.
This book is part of a grouping of books on nutrition in exercise and sport that we
have edited. Other related titles are: Sports Nutrition: Vitamins and Trace Elements;
Macroelements, Water and Electrolytes in Sports Nutrition; Energy-Yielding
Macronutrients; Energy Metabolism in Sports Nutrition; Nutritional Applications in
Exercise and Sport; and Nutritional Assessment of Athletes. Also related are Nutrition in
Exercise and Sport, Third Edition, edited by Ira Wolinsky, and Sports Nutrition, authored
by Judy Driskell.
Ira Wolinsky, Ph.D.
University of Houston
Judy A.Driskell, Ph.D., R.D.
University of Nebraska
Dedication
We appreciate the opportunity to have worked with the chapter authors, experts all, on
this book and on our other books in the area of sports nutrition.
We learned from them and dedicate this book to them.
The Editors
Ira Wolinsky, Ph.D., is Professor of Nutrition at the University of Houston. He received
his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the City College of New York and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Kansas. He has served in
research and teaching positions at the Hebrew University, the University of Missouri
and The Pennsylvania State University, as well as conducting basic research in NASA
life sciences facilities and abroad.
Dr. Wolinsky is a member of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences, among other
honorary and scientific organizations. He has contributed numerous nutrition research
papers in the open literature. His major research interests relate to the nutrition of bone
and calcium and trace elements, and to sports nutrition. He has been the recipient of
research grants from both public and private sources. He has been the recipient of
several international research fellowships and consultantships to the former Soviet
Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and India. He merited a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research
Fellowship to Greece in 1999.
Dr. Wolinsky has coauthored a book on the history of the science of nutrition, Nutrition
and Nutritional Diseases. He co-edited Sports Nutrition: Vitamins and Trace
Elements; Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes in Sports Nutrition; Energy-
Yielding Macronutrients and Energy Metabolism in Sports Nutrition; Nutritional
Applications in Exercise and Sport; Nutritional Assessment of Athletes and the current
book Nutritional Ergogenic Aids, all with Judy Driskell. Additionally, he co-edited
Nutritional Concerns of Women with Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, The Mediterranean Diet:
Constituents and Health Promotion with his Greek colleagues, and Nutrition in
Pharmacy Practice with Louis Williams. He edited three editions of Nutrition in
Exercise and Sport. He served also as the editor, or co-editor, for the CRC Series on
Nutrition in Exercise and Sport, the CRC Series on Modern Nutrition, the CRC Series
on Methods in Nutrition in Nutrition Research and the CRC Series on Exercise
Physiology.
Judy Anne Driskell, Ph.D., R.D. is Professor of Nutritional and Health Sciences at the
University of Nebraska. She received her B.S. degree in Biology from the University
of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were obtained
from Purdue University. She has served in research and teaching positions at Auburn
University, Florida State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University and the University of Nebraska. She has also served as the Nutrition
Scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research Service
and as a Professor of Nutrition and Food Science at Gadjah Mada and Bogor
Universities in Indonesia.
Dr. Driskell is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American
Society of Nutritional Sciences, the American College of Sports Medicine, the
Institute of Food Technologists and the American Dietetic Association. In 1993 she
received the Professional Scientist Award of the Food Science and Human Nutrition
Section of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists. In addition, she was the
1987 recipient of the Borden Award for Research in Applied Fundamental Knowledge
of Human Nutrition. She is listed as an expert in B-Complex Vitamins by the Vitamin
Nutrition Information Service.
Dr. Driskell co-edited the CRC books Sports Nutrition: Minerals and Electrolytes with
Constance V.Kies. In addition, she authored the textbook Sports Nutrition and co-
authored the advanced nutrition book Nutrition: Chemistry and Biology, both
published by CRC. She co-edited Sports Nutrition: Vitamins and Trace Elements;
Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes in Sports Nutrition; Energy-Yielding
Macronutrients and Energy Metabolism in Sports Nutrition; Nutritional Applications
in Exercise and Sport; Nutritional Assessment of Athletes and the current book
Nutritional Ergogenic Aids, all with Ira Wolinsky. She has published more than 100
refereed research articles and 10 book chapters as well as several publications
intended for lay audiences, and has given numerous professional and lay presentations.
Her current research interests center around vitamin metabolism and requirements,
including the interrelationships between exercise and water-soluble vitamin
requirements.
Description:Nutritional Ergogenic Aids provides an up-to-date review of what is hypothetical and what is known about the most extensively used nutritional ergogenic aids; dietary supplements to enhance physical and athletic performance. Among the 23 aids discussed are branched-chain amino acids, carnitine, crea
