Nutrition, Hydration: Principles for Optimal Athletic Performance

With the Summer Olympic Games almost upon us, it is timely to consider what we know about nutrition and athletic performance. In the context of unprecedented claims about health foods and medical foods, this topic serves as an illuminating means of critically discussing the collision between nutrition and physiology. Just how significant is this collision in terms of clinical reality, or, in this case, athletic performance? That is the great and as yet unanswered question and a controversial top…