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Harmony in Health: Investigating the Influence of Nutrition on Focus During Playing. (2024)

Eline de Vries
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Music students practice a lot of hours during the day and always look for ways to improve their practice sessions: how to be even more efficient and what is the best way to stay focused? These improvements are generally sought in for example trying new practice methods. However, a lot of our practice sessions find place when our energy is low or when we are not really in the mood for practicing. This makes having an efficient practice session hard. In this research I try to find out how we can make sure that we actually have the energy to focus by fueling our body in the right way. Nutrition can have a significant effect on our wellbeing, which will be further explained in this research. The research exists of two parts: a literature research and an intervention. The literature part explains the theory behind the ways nutrition influences our whole wellbeing as well as information about different kinds of nutrition and how they influence us. Accordingly, an intervention was conducted in which a part of the literature research was tested. For a period of ten days, participants filled in surveys about their focus during a practice session, which was either with or without eating a specific snack beforehand. Outcomes of both the literature and practical research help us understand how to prepare our body for an efficient practice session.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsnutrition, focus, practice
date22/11/2023
published04/07/2024
last modified04/07/2024
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightEline de Vries
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2398277/2398496
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication

References

  • Holland, Amy Marie, Ana Carina Bon-Frauches, Daniel Keszthelyi, Veerle Melotte, and Werend Boesmans, “The Enteric Nervous System in Gastrointestinal Disease Etiology”, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 78, 10 (Springer, 2021), pp. 4713-33 <https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-021-03812-y>

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