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'This edited volume presents the diverse needs of extreme sports athletes in regard to motivation, nutrition, and functional requirements. Defining extreme sports as those sports that push an athlete's limits both physically and mentally (as, for example, in an Ironman event) or that are unusual and dangerous by nature (for example, parkour or paragliding), the editors argue that the variability of extreme sports demands that specialized attention be devoted to ensuring that such athletes can meet the specific demands of their particular sport. The book's 19 chapters convey unusual contrastive portraits: for example the needs of an athlete competing in an open-water endurance swim differ from those of one competing in a high-altitude mountain biking race. Discussion covers training and nutritional techniques, including use of so-called nutraceutical supplements, affecting an athlete's pre-competition, mid-event, and post-competition experience. One chapter addresses the specific role of hydration in varying circumstances. Other chapters explore muscle development and recovery during extreme sport engagement, including recovery from eccentric contractions. This text is novel in providing information that is rarely encountered in resources dedicated to traditional sports. Its unique focus may enable further discovery of existing gaps in the literature.' --C. Hauff, University of South Alabama, in Choice Connect, vol 57 Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty and professionals. **Description** This book explains what extreme sports are, their nutritional and energy requirements, their evolution and history, and the growth, market, and future of these sports. **Purpose** The purpose is to foster a greater understanding of the types of extreme sports and the unique nutritional, physical, and mental demands of each. The book breaks down the different types of sports into land, water, and high-altitude and discusses both traditional and nontraditional extreme sports. With increasing participation in these sports all around the world, this book is a much-needed resource for the unique needs of these athletes. **Audience** It is intended for sports practitioners, health professionals, sports enthusiasts, and sports nutritionists, along with food experts and researchers. It is most suitable for those looking to gain a greater understanding of extreme sports and how to improve performance, prevent injury, and improve training practices for these athletes. **Features** This book covers topics related to the specific requirements needed by athletes who perform extreme sports. The authors do a thorough job of breaking down the sports into different categories and expanding on the demands, both mental and physical, that are unique to each of them. Factors such as extreme temperatures, altitude, and excessive energy demands during these events are addressed and research-driven information on nutraceutical supplements and functional foods are discussed. Since these factors create an added challenge for athletes and the practitioners who work with them, they must be understood in order to develop better training programs and ultimately improve performance in the sport. The book also reviews ergogenic and nutritional aids and their value in each sport. **Assessment** This is an interesting and comprehensive look into the world of extreme sports. With the rapid growth of adventure racing, ultramarathons, and the less traditional diverse sports (bouldering, caving, hang gliding, etc.), more research is needed to further understand the specific needs of these athletes. This book does a great job of breaking down the book into seven detailed sections. Most notable for readers probably is the physical requirements of each sport and the importance of nutraceuticals and functional foods for these athletes to improve performance and prevent injury. A unique feature is the chapter discussing the use of prosthetics and limb health in extreme sports and how technology, with improved fit and material, enables these athletes to participate with fewer limitations. Overall, this book is comprehensive and well organized. -- Melissa Mellady, MS(Northwestern Medicine Executive Health)

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Sourya Datta is part of the Strategic Deals team at Apple where he is responsible for managing the procurement of a number of components for Apple. Prior to joining Apple, he managed the finances for eBay's North American division. This included managing P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and closing the month and quarters for eBay. He was also responsible for leading the analytics for Latam and Canada for eBay. Prior to that, Sourya was the supply chain manager in the Business Operations and Strategy Group at eBay. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Operations and his Bachelors of Engineering from Anna University, India, and worked in various consulting firms before doing his MBA. Sourya was featured in Poets and Quants as one of the best MBAs in 2015 and has won a number of awards in his tenure at eBay. He is an avid sports fan and has completed a number of marathons and Spartan races since 2007. He has been swimming since he was seven years old and has participated in and won numerous state level competitions. He has also taken active part in mountaineering and trekking since he was in elementary school. He has participated in various marathons in California and has been intricately associated with nutrition and functional food requirements for sports performance. He is also the author of two chapters in Developing New Functional Food and Nutraceutical Products that was published by Elsevier/Academic Press in October 2016. He is also the author of a chapter in the second edition of Nutrition and Enhanced Sports Performance published by Elsevier/Academic Press in September 2018. Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE, received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is the director of scientific affairs at Victory Nutrition International, Inc., Lederach, Pennsylvania; a professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, Texas, and, an adjunct faculty member in Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. He served as the senior vice president of Research & Development of InterHealth Nutraceuticals Inc, Benicia, California, from 1998 until February 2011, and then as director of innovation and clinical affairs of Iovate Health Sciences, Oakville, Ontario, until June 2013, and then chief scientific officer at Cepham, Inc., Somerset, New Jersey from June 2013 until December 2018. Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in October 2010. He is the past chairman of the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF), past president of the American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, Florida, and past chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Chicago, Illionois. He is currently serving as a distinguished advisor on the Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards (JIHFS), Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a member of the Study Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. He has 352 papers in peer reviewed journals, 37 books, and 20 patents. Dr. Bagchi is also a member of the Society of Toxicology, member of the New York Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and member of the TCE stakeholder committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Dr. Bagchi is an associate editor of the Journal of Functional Foods, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Archives of Medical and Biomedical Research, and an editorial board member of numerous peer reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Food & Nutrition Research, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and other peer reviewed journals.

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