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ArticleJournal of nutritional science2025

Exploring the link among eating behaviour, diet quality, and relative energy deficiency in sports risk in elite Canadian volleyball male athletes.

Erik Sesbreno, Louise Capling, Margo Mountjoy, Anne-Sophie Brazeau

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Erik SesbrenoInstitut National du Sport du Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6793-7496
Louise CaplingSydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Margo MountjoyInternational Olympic Committee - Games Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Anne-Sophie BrazeauSchool of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

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Abstract

Male volleyball athletes may be at risk of inadequate energy and carbohydrate intake. This may increase their risk of relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) and impair a variety of physiological and psychological systems involved with performance and health. This study explored the eating behaviours and diet quality of international elite volleyball male athletes and their association on hormones associated with acute energy deficit and primary serum REDs indicators outlined in the International Olympic Committee REDs Clinical Assessment Tool 2.

methodsUsing a retrospective design, 30 male athletes from a national indoor volleyball programme were assessed using DXA bone mineral density, hematological analysis, anthropometry, restrained eating behaviour via the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 and the Athlete Diet Index (ADI) questionnaire.

resultsAll participants met or exceeded dietary recommendations for health and sport with ADI mean score of 95.2/125 ± 10.5. Restraint eating was inversely associated with insulin (

conclusionMale volleyball athletes at risk of inadequate energy intake may not necessarily demonstrate signs of poor diet quality.

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AthletesDietFeeding BehaviorRelative Energy Deficiency in SportVolleyballAdolescentAdultBone DensityCanadaEnergy IntakeHumansInsulinLeptinMaleRetrospective StudiesSports Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaInsulinLeptinTestosteroneTriiodothyronineADI, Athlete diet indexAP Spine, Anterior-Posterior lumbar spineAthlete Diet IndexBMD, Bone mineral densityBMI, Body mass indexCOVID, Coronavirus diseaseCV, Coefficient of variationDXA, Dual Energy X-ray AbsorptiometryEating behaviourElite athletesft3, Free-triiodothyronineIOC, International Olympic CommitteeLEA, Low energy availabilityLow energy availabilityREDs, Relative Energy Deficiency in SportsRelative energy deficiency in sportsTES, Testosterone

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