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Taguchi Lab
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The lab applies science to the diet and energy needs of athletes.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting performance and health through diet.
Through research in sports nutrition, the Taguchi Lab clarifies how athletes should eat.
The lab studies human participants, examining energy metabolism and energy balance, body composition, and nutrient intake.
It builds up evidence using both cross-sectional comparisons and long-term follow-up.
The lab aims to turn its findings into forms that can be used in competitive settings.
Key terms
- Energy metabolism
- The processes in the body that convert food into the energy used to move and then use it
- Energy balance
- The balance between the energy taken in from food and the energy expended through exercise and other activity
- Body composition
- The proportions in which the body is made up of muscle, fat, bone, and other tissues
NewsLab news
A paper from the lab was published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
A paper from an international collaboration with Korea University was published in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
A master's student won second place in a master's thesis presentation contest
A study on blood glucose fluctuations and nutrient intake in female long-distance runners was published in the Japanese Journal of Clinical Sports Medicine
Research by Prof. Taguchi and colleagues was featured in Waseda University's research activity news
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies human participants, examining energy metabolism and energy balance, body composition, and nutrient intake. It aims to connect the evidence it collects to nutritional approaches that can be used in competitive settings.
*Illustrative imageEnergy metabolism in athletes
By measuring the balance between the energy athletes expend in a day and the energy they take in from food, the lab identifies appropriate amounts for each sport and period of the season.
*Illustrative imageNutrition for female athletes
The lab examines how energy deficiency affects the bones and health of female athletes, and tests how far dietary interventions improve these outcomes.
*Illustrative imageBody composition and physique building
By measuring the proportions of muscle and fat in the body, the lab studies from a nutritional perspective how to build a physique suited to a sport and how to gain weight appropriately.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Taguchi Lab consist of faculty, assistants, doctoral and master's students, undergraduate students, researchers, and administrative staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotoko Taguchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Japanese set meal - Sunian” Andy Li / CC0 (cropped)
- Energy metabolism in athletes: “A bowl of rice” Douglas Perkins / CC0 (cropped)
- Nutrition for female athletes: “Femur - anterior view” Anatomography / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Body composition and physique building: “Connective Tissue Adipose ( )” Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tsukamoto Lab): “Cerebrum - frontal lobe - anterior view” Anatomography / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
- Related lab (Sawada Lab): “Snow-cholera-map” after John Snow / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Maeda Lab): “Elastic artery seen in a histological section” Otávio Astor Vaz Costa / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tsuchiya Lab): “Parallel bars - panoramio” Jiaqian AirplaneFan / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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