TY - JFULL AU - Jimaima Lako and Subramaniam Sotheeswaran and Ketan Christi PY - 2010/9/ TI - Food Habits and Nutritional Status of Fiji Rugby Players T2 - International Journal of Sport and Health Sciences SP - 1886 EP - 1892 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11286 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 44, 2010 N2 - The 15-a-side Fiji rugby team trains well in preparations for any rugby competition but rarely performs to expectations. In order to help the Fiji local based rugby players to identify some key basic areas in improving their performance, a series of workshops were conducted to assess their nutritional status and dietary habits in relation to energy demand during rugby matches. The nutrition workshop included the administration of questionnaires to 19 local based rugby players, requesting the following information: usual food intakes, training camp food intakes, carbohydrate loading, pre-game meals and post-game meals. The study revealed that poor eating habits of the players resulted in the low carbohydrate intake, which may have contributed to increase levels of fatigue leading to loss of stamina even before the second half of the game. It appears that the diet of most 15-a-side players does not provide enough energy to enable them to last the full eightyminutes of the game. ER -