Abstract

Research on the individual nutrition strategy based on Chinese constitutional dietary in competitive sports

Author(s): Guoqing Su

Chinese traditional medicine is a popular topic in the past years. Chinese Constitutional theories, as one brunch of Chinese traditional medicine, have been used mainly in the improvement of common people’s health quality. Besides, the dietary based on Chinese traditional medicine also functions to help Chinese people remain healthy physical qualities. Once these two topics are combined, Chinese Constitutional Dietary has been on the stage. Though it has not been experimented in the competitive sports, its feasibilities can be foreseen. This thesis introduces body constitution system, its practice and its links with Chinese dietary to give an overview of Chinese Constitutional Dietary, then briefly presents how it can be combined into individual nutrition strategies for competitive athletes and finally confirms the feasibility of Chinese Constitutional Dietary on individual nutrition strategies in competitive sports.