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Young, Female, Running & Dieting? Read This : Complete Running NetworkPublished by
January 23, 2008 When we think of running nutrition, our minds turn to what foods will help us run faster, better, easier. What foods give our bodies the pep they need to sustain our high-energy pursuits. But, there’s also that other consideration: how can not eating enough, especially during critical growth periods in our lives, affect our body structure and health when we take out more than we put in? Researchers at San Diego State University in California and Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in Utah looked at the eating and exercise habits of a group of adolescent female cross-country runners. Their report in this month’s American Journal of Clinical Nutrition discusses the possible relationships between disordered eating and menstrual irregularity and low bone mineral density in young female runners, ages 13-18 years old. To start, the researchers wanted to begin to understand which components of disordered eating (shape, weight or eating concerns and dietary restraint) may be associated with menstrual irregularity and low bone mineral density. They used answers supplied by 93 young runners in an Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) to divide them into groups for analysis on menstrual status and bone measures. In the end, the researchers found that dietary restraint- “the intent to limit calorie intake, whether or not the effort was...
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