La ingesta nutricional del futbolista adolescent és important per garantir-ne el creixement i rendiment esportiu adequats. No hi ha unanimitat sobre les recomanacions nutricionals per a esportistes joves, donat que no existeixen dades sobre lalimentació de jugadors juvenils argentins. El propòsit daquest estudi és descriure la ingesta nutricional de jugadors de divisions inferiors dun club de futbol dArgentina, establir-ne lestat nutricional antropomètric i comparar les diferències entre esportistes i una mostra de no esportistes.
MètodesEs registraren les mesures antropomètriques i bioquímiques i es realitzaren enquestes nutricionals a 91 jugadors juvenils dun club de futbol de Buenos Aires i a 198 adolescents del projecte Deporte Social.
ResultatsNo es van trobar valors antropometriconutricionals anormals en els futbolistes, tot i que el 8,9% dels adolescents no esportistes tenia sobrepès. La ingesta energètica mitjana dels jugadors fou de 3.520 ± 961 kcal; amb aportació de 16 ± 3% de proteïnes, 51 ± 11% dhidrats de carboni 31 ± 10% de lípids. Lenergia fou proveïda per midons (33%), carn (17%), greixos (15%), làctics (12%), fruita i verdura (14%) i sucres (8%). Els jugadors menjaven més carn, làctics, fruita, verdura i greixos que els seus parells no esportistes, però menys midons i sucres (p < 0,05), i mostraren valors superiors dhemoglobina i menors de colesterol (p < 0,05).
ConclusionsEls jugadors tenen un estat antropometriconutricional adequat i la ingesta nutricional és superior en proteïnes i lípids i inferior en hidrats de carboni a les recomanacions per a aquests esportistes adolescents. En comparació amb joves no esportistes, ingereixen aliments de millor qualitat nutritiva.
The nutritional consumption of adolescent footballer is important to ensure growth and a suitable sports performance. Nutritional recommendations for young athletes are controversial, and there are no data on the diet of young Argentinian football players. The objective of this study is to describe the nutritional ingestion of footballer in the lower division of a football club in Argentina, to establish the nutritional-anthropometric status and compare the differences between athletes and non-athletes.
MethodsAnthropometric and biochemistry measurements were performed, and nutritional questionnaires were completed by 91 young football players of a Buenos Aires football club and in 198 adolescents in a Social Sport Project.
ResultsNo abnormal anthropometric-nutritional values were found in the footballer, although 8.9% of the non-athlete adolescents were overweight. The average energy ingested by the footballers was 3520 ± 961 Kcal; which included 16% ± 3 proteins, 51% ± 11 carbohydrates and 31% ± 10 lipids. The energy was provided by starches (33%), meat (17%), fats (15%), milk products (12%), fruit and vegetables (14%), and sugars (8%). The football players ate more meat, milk products, fruit, vegetables and fats than their non-athlete peers, although less starches and sugars (P < .05), and they had higher haemoglobin and lower cholesterol values (P < .05).
ConclusionsThe footballers have an adequate anthropometric-nutritional status and nutritional ingestion is higher in proteins and lipids and lower in carbohydrates to those recommended for adolescent athletes. Compared to young non-athletes, they consume food of a better nutritional quality.