The use of nutritional supplements in sport is a pertinent subject by its indiscriminate
application to athletes of many sportive modalities, to improve, apparently, the athlete
sportive performance. The study main goal was evaluate the consumption of nutritional
supplements by federate sportists in Bragan/la.
It was built a questionnaire, submitted to a pre-test, and was administered to a population of
120 federate sportists between 9 and 36 years old. With these questionnaire were compared
the supplement kinds not only with the age, gender, modality, frequency, timetable, duration
of the exercise and origin of the consumption, but also with some anthropometric
characteristics and food habits.
