Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine sport and nutrition education interaction on stress. Three groups were selected for the study: control, single treatment and social treatment under nutrition treatment, too. The groups that were under nutrition treatments should have information about the nutrition resources. This experiment was done for two years, 2013-2014. Results showed that sport has significant effect at 5% probability level on weight loss. Also, sport has significant effect at 5% probability level on illness percent decreasing, and decreasing of illness percent under single sport treatment was more than other treatments. The results showed that by increasing the cortisol reactivity ratio, the cortisol concentration at the end measurement decreased. This study concluded that doing daily exercise and using of benefit nutrition resource can be a new natural technique for coping with stress.

Key words: Cortisol, hydrocarbon, vitamin C, single exercise, social exercise.