Maybe they should include more breaks or relieve the time pressures. They way they make it sound, it does not sound like fun at all to compete in a tournament and would turn many away.
Article fail. "...The nutritionists suggested that he instead drink a mixture of chocolate milk and plain milk, which contained far lower levels of sugar but would also supplement his body with calcium, potassium and protein..." Chocolate milk is a mixture of chocolate and plain milk. So chocolate milk is not a mixture of chocolate milk and plain milk. They should eat more red meat to get their brains functioning at a higher level. Nutritionists....Great career path. "...Meanwhile, players also eat less during tournaments, simply because they don't have the time or the appetite. "The simple explanation is when they're thinking about chess, they're not thinking about food," says Ewan C. McNay, assistant professor of psychology in the behavioral neuroscience program at the University of Albany..." Consume energy from the body without replenishing it. Weight goes down. BRILLIANT! Mystery solved. Please send me a check for the 4,000,000 dollars that was spent on the study of common sense, and I'll donate some to the school that paid for this study, to the janitors. Because they are more productive in society than the researchers. They actually DO something USEFUL, like clean up the shit of these damned useless researchers.
You're being a bit ham-handed about it: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/the-evolution-of-diet.335917/