Abstract:

This study, intends to determine, the nutrition habits of the students who do active sports at Kutahya Dumlupinar University Physical Education and Sports College,and whether they have enough information about sports nutrition, and how they use the information that they learn at their daily life. This study involved 180 students (150 male and 30 female ). A questionnaire was done to determine the students’ nutrition knowledge and their nutrition habits The results of the study show that, 72% (108) of males and 90% (27) of females reported they had sufficient knowledge on sports nutrition. However 58.7% (88) males and 70% (21) of females reported that they do not pay attention to their nutrition at daily life. The correlation between the students’ knowledge about sports nutrition and carefull nutrition plans of students weren’t found significant at p<0.05 level. It was found that the majority of participants had inadequate diets during training sessions and competition

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