Improve performance with nutrition

Below are various articles and resources that explain how proper nutrition can improve your performance during physical activity.

Official Languages

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Hydration

• Sports Nutrition: Facts on Hydration – Dietitians of Canada

Nutrition

• Top Fuel for Top Performance – Nutrition Workshop - STF

Energy drinks

• Archived - Alcohol and energy drinks – Ask the expert – The Maple Leaf (page 13)
• Caffeinated energy drinks – Health Canada
• Caffeine and energy drinks – Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Dietary supplements

• Performance Enhancers: Facts and Bottom Line:
  • Performance Enhancers: Facts and Bottom Line (Publication) (PDF, 827 Kb)
  • Fact sheet on Beta Alanine (PDF, 202 Kb)
  • Fact sheet on Comfrey (PDF, 172 Kb)
  • Fact sheet on DMSO (PDF, 180 Kb)
  • Fact sheet on Anabolic Steroids (PDF, 183 Kb)
  • Fact sheet on Ephedra/Ephedrine (PDF, 180 Kb)
• The Dietary Supplement Dilemma: Helpful or Harmful? (PDF, 1,824 Kb)
• Archived - Can anabolic steroids hurt my son? – Ask the expert – The Maple Leaf (page 12)