Female athlete triad or relative energy deficiency in sports (red-s) : is there a difference? / Wendy Marcason

The female athlete triad was officially described in 1997, by the Task Force on Women's Issues of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), as a syndrome often observed in physically active girls and women with three distinct medical disorders: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. In 2007, ACSM redefined and changed the terminology used to describe the three interrelated components to energy availability (EA), menstrual function, and bone health. ACSM defines the term "energy availability" as the amount of energy left over and available for normal body functions after the energy expended for training is subtracted from the energy taken in from food.

Nutrition.