Sports Nutrition Basics. Part 5 - Pre & Post Competition Eating. Long gone are the days when athletes thought that eating a big steak before a game would give them lots of energy. Today's elite sports men and women follow a strict diet, particularly on the day of a competitive match or event.
An artery (plural arteries) (from Greek á¼ÏÏÎ·ÏÎ¯Î± (artÄria), meaning 'windpipe, artery') is a blood vessel that takes oxygenated blood from the heart to all parts of the body. The two exceptions to this rule are the pulmonary and the umbilical arteries.
An artery is a blood vessel. The main function of the artery is to carry blood from the heart to the tissues and organs of the body, as opposed to veins, which carry blood from tissues and organs back to the heart.