AUTHOR(S): Shafqit Hussain Shah and Neeraj Sharma

ABSTRACT:
Sports nutrition is an important field of study yet nutrition plays a crucial role in a sportsman life. Most of the girls athlete depends upon diet, like carbohydrates, protein, minerals etc during physical activity. The main objective of stud is to aware school girls for good intake of nutrition. A girls athletes nutritional plan has a direct impact on her overall performance Therefore the purpose of study was to convey schools girls about nutritional education programme. The nutrition education program helps girls athletes on a very small skill base, but attitude and behavior helps to improve health and sports performance of the girls athlete. The process of imparting nutrition education to a girls athlete is very easy because at home a mother plays a role of coach, in which mother taught various things to girls athlete. In schools a teacher shared his knowledge with girls athlete by using chart, poster, flash card, leaflet/parmphlet, power point presentation etc. The result of the anthropometric measurement shows that majority 74% of the selected sports girls were under normal weight. The investigation of this study shows that most of sports persons have insufficient knowledge of nutritional diet. Nutrition education mean to prepare aware girls athlete for better use of nutrition.

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