Impact Of Nutrition Education On  Nutritional Knowledge, Dietary Practices  And Physical Endurance Of  Amateur Badminton Players

Dr. Anjali A. Rajwade

Volume : I, Issue : I, June - 2012

Impact Of Nutrition Education On Nutritional Knowledge, Dietary Practices And Physical Endurance Of Amateur Badminton Players

Dr. Anjali A. Rajwade

Abstract :

Sporting activity combines exercise with recreation. Nutrition plays an important role in any exercise by supplying the necessary energy as well as enhancing the endurance. The study was therefore, aimed at assessing nutritional knowledge, dietary practices and physical endurance of 30 amateur women badminton players from Akola city; before and after imparting nutrition education to them. 70% of the respondents had low knowledge level about general nutrition at pre education stage. The education helped 53.33% respondents to achieve high knowledge level while medium level was achieved by another 36.67% players. Nutritional education related to endurance resulted in a shift from 93.33% respondents at low level pre education to 86.67% of them at high level post education, showing significant (0.1096) improvement at 0.01 level of significance. None of the players practiced consumption of carbohydrate rich diet, instead a high percentage 73.33% consumed fat rich diet while 26.67% fat & protein rich diet. Nutritional education induced 70.00% respondents to shift to carbohydrate rich diet. The dietary practices improved significantly due to knowledge gained through the nutrition education. At post education stage good sport endurance was observed in 66.67% respondents, 80.00% had good general stamina, good weight correction was achieved by 60.00% respondents, 63.33% had good skin health while 70.00% of the players had good level of psychological well being. Nutrition education, appropriate for the sports women enabled them in improving their nutrition resulting in improvement in their nutritional knowledge, dietary practices and health parameters related to physical endurance, thereby improving their sports activity