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Higher protein intake is associated with improved muscle strength in elite senior athletes
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“Comparable to the findings above, the few available reports suggest a beneficial effect of a higher protein intake in this group, showing associations with greater muscle strength [17] and favorable body composition [29] compared to lower protein intake or age-matched controls, respectively.”
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“Six cross-sectional studies [17,22,29,30,31] and one before–after study [27] reported daily protein intakes, ranging between 1.0 and 1.9 g/kg/d.”
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“four studies reported on athletes from multi-sport backgrounds [17,29,30,31]”
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“In support of this, higher protein intakes showed superior outcomes for developing lean body mass [15,16] and muscle strength [17] in the elderly.”
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“Girolamo et al. [17] observed that higher protein intake was linked to greater muscle strength in 50 elite master athletes.”
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- Authors
- Di Girolamo, F. G., Situlin, R., Fiotti, N., Tence, M., De Colle, P., Mearelli, F., Minetto, M. A., Ghigo, E., Pagani, M., Lucini, D., Pigozzi, F., Portincasa, P., Toigo, G., & Biolo, G.
- Venue
- Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 42
- Pages
- 82-86
- ISSN
- 0899-9007
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 10
- Language
- en
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- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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