Nutrition

Nutritional readiness is the ability to recognize, select, and consume the requisite food and drink to meet the physical and nonphysical demands of any duty or combat position, accomplish the mission and come home healthy.

Nutritional readiness has evolved over the past four decades from a series of disjointed ideas and onesize-fits-all guidelines into an evidence-based science promoting integrated and personalized practices. Whereas earlier efforts were based on static recommendations focused on the fuel needs for endurance sports, contemporary performance dietary guidelines are mission- and individual-driven and periodized to enhance readiness.