Objectives of the course are to comprehend basic nutrition principals for health, to explain carbohydrate, protein, fats, water, vitamins, minerals, and their importance on sportive performance, to teach special diets applications and its’ reasons, nutritional ergogenic aids, and antioxidant nutrition principles, to conceive energy balance for body weight control, basal metabolic rate and daily caloric assessment.

Basic nutrition principals, basic (carbohydrate, protein, fats) and supporter (vitamins, minerals and water) foods and their importance and application designs, special diets for athletes, body weight control and energy balance, daily caloric assessment