sports nutrition

Nutrition education sounds like a sure-fire strategy: teach an athlete how to eat properly — get better results. A new study involving 198 military athletes in Lebanon appears to confirm this: the training group’s knowledge scores rose by 23%. But there’s a figure lurking in the background that the headlines don’t mention. The control group, which didn’t receive any training, also improved their knowledge — by 7.2%. Let’s break down what’s really going on here…