Professional resources
Useful resources for researchers or for practitioners to use with clients to support your evidence-based practice.
Sports Dietitians Australia (SDA)
SDA is the professional body Australia and their website hosts useful factsheets for adult and child athletes on a range of topics such as food allergies and intolerances, sport specific factsheets and a variety of dietary supplements.
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The Athlete’s Plate
A visual tool designed to help sports dietitians working with athletes and athletes themselves with adjust their nutrition based on their training load when following a periodized training and competition plan. To read more about the development of the plates and to download them follow the link below.
The athlete’s plate
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Useful links from the SCAN (Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists – US) website
Sports nutrition professional resources contains information on RED-S, hydration, nutrition factsheets, supplements and banned substances.
Disordered eating professional resources provides a list of public and professional websites and resources for eating disorders and disordered eating in the US.
Nutrition resources for collegiate athletes has good links to factsheets, webinars and nutrition articles.
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Supplements, drugs and doping
Below is a list of organisation that provide credible information on dietary supplements and anti-doping.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote, coordinate and monitor the fight against drugs in sports.
For other national anti-doping Organizations (NADOS) see WADA’s list
Informed Sport is a global quality assurance program for sports nutrition products, suppliers to the sports nutrition industry, and supplement manufacturing facilities.
AegisShield helps keep athletes clean and in the game by providing a website and mobile app designed to quickly and easily identify the presence of banned substances on the labels of dietary supplements.
Cologne List® The market of nutritional supplements is very dynamic and heterogeneous. Supplements may be accidentally contaminated during the production process or intentionally mixed with prohibited substances by the manufacturer. Cologne List® is an initiative from the field of sport, listing nutritional supplements tested for selected doping-substances and therefore presenting a minimized doping-risk.
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EAT-26 (Eating Attitudes Test – 26 items)
A questionnaire measuring eating attitudes and behaviours. This tool identifies individuals at risk of disordered eating, problematic behaviours, and concern about dieting and body weight.
Development paper – Garner DM, Olmsted MP, Bohr Y, Garfinkel PE. The eating attitudes test: psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychological medicine. 1982 Nov;12(4):871-8.
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MDDI (Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory)
A brief questionnaire measuring the presence and severity of attitudes and behaviours symptomatic of muscle dysmorphia.
BIG (Bodybuilder Image Grid)
A tool which measures perceptual body image disturbance, through identification of current and ideal body types. The tool displays images of physiques varying in their degree of muscularity and leanness.
Development paper for MDDI and BIG – Hildebrandt T, Langenbucher J, Schlundt DG. Muscularity concerns among men: Development of attitudinal and perceptual measures. Body Image. 2004 May 1;1(2):169-81.
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University College London: Eating behaviour questionnaires
The University College London provides a list of eating behaviour questionnaires including their development papers. Although the questionnaires are not validated for use in athletic population some questionnaires may be of interest including the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (GNKQ) and the Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ).
