Food Components to Enhance Performance: An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations

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Food Components to Enhance Performance: An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations APPENDIXES Scenarios that Illustrate Potential Usefulness of Food Components to Enhance Performance Military Recommended Dietary Allowances, AR 40–25 (1985) A Selected Bibliography on an Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations Biographical Sketches

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Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R16

I. Committee Summary and Recommendations 1-2

1. Introduction and Background 3-46

2. Conclusions and Recommendations 47-62

II. Background and Introduction to the Topic 63-64

3. Nutritional Enhancement of Soldier Performance at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, 1985-1992 65-76

4. Optimizing the Design of Combat Rations 77-92

5. Biochemical Strategies for Ration Design: Concerns of Bioavailability 93-110

III. Military Issues 111-112

6. Evaluation of Physical Performance 113-126

7. The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Performance During Continuous Combat Operations 127-136

8. The Role of Context in Behavioral Effects of Foods 137-158

IV. Stress and Nutrient Interactions: Metabolic Consequences 159-160

9. Stress and Monoamine Neurons in the Brain 161-176

10. Endocrine and Immune System Response to Stress 177-208

11. The Metabolic Responses to Stress and Physical Activity 209-220

V. Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components 221-222

12. Food Components That May Optimize Physical Preformance: An Overview 223-238

13. Effects of Nutrients on Neurotransmitter Release 239-262

14. Performance-Enhancing Effects of Protein and Amino 263-276

15. Tyrosine and Stress: Human and Animal Studies 277-300

16. Tyrosine and Glucose Modulation of Cognitive Deficits Resulting from Cold Stress 301-320

17. Carbohydrates, Protein, and Performance 321-350

18. Structured Lipids: An Overview and Comments on Performance Enhancement Potential 351-380

19. Choline: Human Requirements and Effects on Human Performance 381-406

20. Effects of Caffeine on Cognitive Performance, Mood, and Alertness in Sleep-Deprived Humans 407-432

21. The Role of Carnitine in Enhancing Physical Performance 433-452

VI. Safety and Regulatory Aspects of Potential Ration Enhancement 453-454

22. Safety Concerns Regarding Supplemental Amino Acids: Results of a Study 455-460

23. Regulatoin of Amino Acids and Other Dietary Components Associated with Enhanced Physical Performance 461-474

Appendixes 475-476

Appendix A: Scenarios that Illustrate Potential Usefulness of Food Components to Enhance Performance 477-480

Appendix B: Military Recommended Dietary Allowances 481-500

Appendix C: A Selected Bibliography on an Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing food Components for Operational Rations 501-514

Appendix D: Biographical Sketches 515-528

Index 529-544

APPENDIXES