Table 1.

Dietary intake in soccer players supplemented with either creatine or placebo during pre-season training

	Placebo (n = 7)		Creatine (n = 7)
	Pre	Post	Pre	Post
Total Energy (Kcal/d)	2887.9 ± 700.6	2952.2 ± 634.4	2718.4 ± 603.2	3035.1 ± 943.2
Carbohydrate (g/d)	379.2 ± 108.9	451.1 ± 143.9	361.8 ± 90.4	462.0 ± 147.6
Lipids (g/d)	98.0 ± 26.7	79.5 ± 16.2	92.1 ± 23.6	81.9 ± 33.7
Protein (g/d)	122.3 ± 28.9	108.2 ± 23.8	110.5 ± 12.7	112.4 ± 42.1
Protein (g/Kg body mass/d)	1.8 ± 0.5	1.6 ± 0.4	1.6 ± 0.2	1.7 ± 0.7
Creatine (g/d)	1.2 ± 0.4	1.2 ± 0.4	1.5 ± 0.7	1.2 ± 0.4

There were no significant differences within- or between-groups.