A Systematic Review of the Impact of Vegan and Plant Based Diets on Sports Performance of Athletes (Published)
The current study investigated the impact of vegan and plant-based diets on sports performance of athletes. The goal was to analyze the data from previous studies to determine the collective position of the impact of vegan and plant-based diets on athletes. The research adopted a secondary approach and collected data from already conducted studies. A systematic review following the guidance of PRISMA was conducted and studies numbering 30 in total were selected for the review. Different databases were accessed to enable the sourcing of data files and research on the subject matter including but not limited to PubMed, ProQuest, NCBI, Cochrane, Google Scholar, Web of Science. The inclusion criteria allowed studies done in the last 10 years, and it was mandatory that consulted studies has empirically tested the performance of athletes and dietary effect on the same. There are conflicting findings in research regarding the impact of vegan and plant-based diets on performance of athletes with some research indicating that vegan and non-vegan athletes had minimal differences in performance, while some indicating that vegan and plant-based diet athletes suffer performance challenges especially during high endurance and intensity sporting activities. The current study resolves this misunderstanding by providing clarity on the impact of vegan and plant-based diets on sports performance of athletes. Some of the impacts noted included the lack of strength and endurance, as well as muscle depletion especially due to lack of certain nutrients in their diets. The research reviews some of the nutrients and provides recommendations for supplementation of these nutrients for the improved performance of vegan and plant-based diet athletes.
Keywords: Performance, Vegan diet, plant-based diet, vegetarian athletes
Effect of Drug Abuse on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Nigeria (Published)
This paper examines the effect of drug abuse on academic performance of secondary school students in Nigeria. However, drug abuse is rampant among the teenagers because of their ignorance they do not understand the effect and repercussion of drug addicts. Moreover, many students acquired it through their friend’s influence, experimental curiosity, personal problems due to socio background conditions while many need it for energy to work for long hours. Similarly, some need drugs to prevent the occurrence of withdrawal symptoms e.t.c In addition, students lure to abuse the following drugs such Alcohol, cocaine, Nicotine and Phencyclidine e.t.c but all these drugs have negative effect in the body. For instance, many students find it cumbersome to read and even it kills their moral of reading culture. Consequence, after they have taken the drugs many students behave abnormally while other fall sick bases on their body system even it affects their ability of reasoning all these problems contributed to their reading culture and many students failed honorably in public examination such WAEC, NECO and other external examinations yearly in Nigeria. Therefore, parents, teachers and Ministry education neither federal and state must contribute positively to reduce uses of the drugs among of teenagers in private and public secondary schools in Nigeria.
Keywords: Academic, Culture, Drug Abuse, Performance, Student, Symptoms, Teenagers, abnormally, cocaine, cumbersome, external. examination, public