Nutrition and Athletic Performance

By: Douglas N. Graham

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's Summary

Whether you are a seasoned athlete or just getting started with a fitness program, Nutrition and Athletic Performance is your guide to success. Discover what athletes from every sport around the world have been using to set personal bests.

Learn what to eat before, during and after activity to yield the best performance. Attain freedom from costly supplements. Gain better recovery times from activities. And finally learn the truth about carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

©1998, 2002, 2008 Douglas N Graham (P)2014 Douglas N Graham

Best I’ve ever felt

I read Douglas’s other book called the 80/10/10 diet over five years ago when I first went vegan. My husband and I ate strictly how he describes for a little over a year. My husband lost 100 pounds and I got rid of multiple autoimmune symptoms. Even my seizures went away. Then we started eating cooked food, vegan junkfood and slowly didn’t feel all that great anymore. For the past 4 years we tried many other vegan diets and nothing made us feel as good as eating raw 80/10/10. We read this book to learn more and give us a reminder of why we need to go back to eating this way. Happy to say we’re back on track and feeling great! My husband did over the past four years regain about 30 pounds from all of the junk food but is already 10 pounds down! And the main issue I had was a couple autoimmune symptoms popping up such as swelling and mucus production after eating. On this diet those are nonexistent.

This Book Will Teach You Nothing

There is little to no information given to help increase nutrition or performance value. A very opinionated author who uses scare tactics and conspiracy theories to self promote and mention how everyone else is doing things wrong and we should do things his way. Granted, I only made it halfway through the book, but at 11 chapters in with nothing new learned it was clear this book was a waste of time and I had gotten tired of his negative outlook at everything.

Look at it as cliff notes for 80 10 10

Good book learned not only about nutrition but about importance of rest and why we get injured. If your serious of taking your health and sports performance to the next level you'll love this book!

informative

the author is very firm in his beliefs on raw fruitarians. And direct and very direct and to-the-point and delivering that message

A must have and do book to get healthy.

To get healthy and have high energy you must follow and put this book in practice. Following doctor Graham simple ways of explaining real nutrition for life is a must Be - Do = Have. I highly recommend everyone to put this in to practice.

Best book ever! Amazing results

I have only one month on the diet and just love the results, I don't ever see myself leaving this amazing way of life!

All the author talked about was bananas

Would you try another book from Douglas N. Graham and/or Brett Barry?

No. The entire content of the book could have been communicated in 10 minutes. Eat fruit and vegetables and 20-30 bananas at a time.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Already started it. The Way of the Seal.

How could the performance have been better?

It was just terrible. Nutrition Made Clear by Roberta Anding provides clear examples of what to do, what not to do and why. This was too repetitive.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment.

Amazing Book!

Love this and ready to take things to the next level! This book answered many questions

Pseudoscience

He is a chiropractor, not an RD or a Nutritionist.
He, not joking at all, suggests that athletes can/should eat 10-15 bananas after a workout.
This is not a book I would recommend to anyone and a quick google search will reveal the lack of credibility, the lack of validity, and that Graham is strictly promoting a fad 80/10/10 diet to make a profit.

Pseudoscience waste of time

The author clearly has a bias for a vegan diet and supports it very weakly with anecdote, pseudoscience, and scientifically false assertions. The chapter on fat - nearly every point made has been soundly refuted by proper science. Don't bother with this unless you just want to feed a vegan confirmation bias.

I regret buying this book.

This book can’t decide if it is written for the layman or academics, starts off with an extended rant about the nutrition industry and then offers very little else in substance. It thinks extremely high of itself despite not offering any useful information. It makes quite a lot of generalised statements regarding food and focuses it’s details on irrelevant facts. While constantly enforcing it’s “eat whole foods” agenda. As someone who eats well and knows a little about nutrition I’d like my money back please.

I liked listening to it

Ok. It was good and informative, but what I didn't like is the fact that it pushes you to go vegan or raw vegan. From what I understood that is the only way to get the performance. I took everything with a pinch of salt and I will actually use some of the info.

very old fashioned

really old thoughts about nutrition. it must get updated with the latest evidence otherwise it is poorly useful

Short and clear

What I love the most about this book is that the author gives you clear examples instead of saying things like "eat more of this or that". And each time he recommends something he also gives a full explanation of all the reasons why.

Totally bias

Is this guy on commission for selling bananas?? To say all athlete should be eating between 10 and 20 bananas a day is obscene and where are your facts to say that it’s proven that the more successful athletes are all vegan/vegetarian?? Been personal training for 8 years and 90% of this book completely contradicts everything I’ve ever learnt.