Associations Between Nutritional Intake, Body Composition, Menstrual Health, and Performance in Elite Female Trail Runners
Nil Piñol-Granadino, Marta Carrasco-Marginet, Silvia Puigarnau, Javier Espasa-Labrador, Álex Cebrián-Ponce, Fabrizio Gravina-Cognetti, Maria Darder-Terradas, Joan Solé-Fortó · 2025
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Description
Nil Piñol-Granadino and colleagues profile food intake, body build, menstrual health and race results in thirty-five elite female trail runners. Fourteen had regular cycles and twenty-one had missed or rare periods. Seven-day and day-long food records, body measurements and ranking scores were combined.
Nearly all athletes, 94.3 percent, ate too little for their training load, though the shortfall did not differ by cycle group. Runners without regular periods ate more simple sugars and protein, while the regular group ate more complex carbohydrates and vitamins. Both groups fell short on calcium and iron. Race results tracked food patterns, not menstrual status, and simple sugar tracked worse results.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nil Piñol-Granadino, Marta Carrasco-Marginet, Silvia Puigarnau, Javier Espasa-Labrador, Álex Cebrián-Ponce, Fabrizio Gravina-Cognetti, Maria Darder-Terradas, Joan Solé-Fortó |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |