TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-reported use and reasons among the general population for using sports nutrition products and dietary supplements
AU - Wardenaar, Floris
AU - van den Dool, Remko
AU - Ceelen, Ingrid
AU - Witkamp, Renger
AU - Mensink, Marco
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The Dutch National Sport Study (NSO) was partly funded by a grant from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The writing of this article as part of the Dutch Sport nutrition and Supplement Study was made possible by a regional government grant as part of the Eat2Move project of the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. Special thanks to Jeanne de Vries and Andy Maytum for giving feedback on the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence of dietary supplements (DS’s) and sport nutrition product (SNPs) among the general population, to identify differences for gender, age, and exercise frequency, and to determine the main reasons for use. The study was designed as a web-based questionnaire in a representative sample (n = 1544) of the Dutch population. Sixty-two percent (n = 957) of the respondents reported having used DS’s, SNPs, or both in the last twelve months. Women and older people reported the highest DS use. The highest use of SNPs was reported by regular exercising men and younger people with improving sporting performance as their main objective. Most frequently reported DS’s were multivitamins (28%) and vitamin C (19%)—for SNPs, energy drinks (22%) and isotonic drinks (19%). Health considerations were the most important motivation (DS’s 90% and SNPs 52%), but also performance was substantially reported (DS’s 14% and SNPs 35%). A substantial group of sedentary respondents also reported the use of SNPs. This study confirms that DS’s, SNPs, or both are widely used among the general population. Both health as performance are important reasons for use. It can be questioned whether the use of SNPs fits all respondents’ physical activity needs.
AB - The purpose of the present study was to determine the prevalence of dietary supplements (DS’s) and sport nutrition product (SNPs) among the general population, to identify differences for gender, age, and exercise frequency, and to determine the main reasons for use. The study was designed as a web-based questionnaire in a representative sample (n = 1544) of the Dutch population. Sixty-two percent (n = 957) of the respondents reported having used DS’s, SNPs, or both in the last twelve months. Women and older people reported the highest DS use. The highest use of SNPs was reported by regular exercising men and younger people with improving sporting performance as their main objective. Most frequently reported DS’s were multivitamins (28%) and vitamin C (19%)—for SNPs, energy drinks (22%) and isotonic drinks (19%). Health considerations were the most important motivation (DS’s 90% and SNPs 52%), but also performance was substantially reported (DS’s 14% and SNPs 35%). A substantial group of sedentary respondents also reported the use of SNPs. This study confirms that DS’s, SNPs, or both are widely used among the general population. Both health as performance are important reasons for use. It can be questioned whether the use of SNPs fits all respondents’ physical activity needs.
KW - Exercise
KW - Health
KW - Nutritional supplements
KW - Performance
KW - Sports dietetics
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U2 - 10.3390/sports4020033
DO - 10.3390/sports4020033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073274146
SN - 2075-4663
VL - 4
JO - Sports
JF - Sports
IS - 2
M1 - 33
ER -