Most nutrition advice a sport and exercise medicine (SEM) clinician gives is to ordinary people being encouraged to move more, not to athletes chasing marginal gains.
This page covers the UK healthy eating model, how carbohydrate and protein needs scale with training, how fuel use changes with exercise intensity, and the boundary between sensible fuelling and harmful low energy availability. Competition strategies are covered on the athlete nutrition and hydration page.
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