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...saying that kids shouldn't play sports or even that they shouldn't train. But "you shouldn't be training a 9-to-12-year-old to be a superstar," says Dr. Michael Bergeron of the Medical College of Georgia. "You should be thinking down the road so they can be that superstar at 18." That's what some training centers are now aiming to do. The coaches at BlueStreak Sports Training in Stamford, Conn., for example, assess each athlete's risk for knee injury, paying particular attention to girls, who are six times as likely as boys to injure...
...will say I’m jinxing the team as it looks for its third straight weekend sweep, but I’ll know better: as the defending champions sit in first place in February, the Ancient Eight title is theirs to lose. The 2007 Ivy champs dropped a road contest to Yale in late January before running the table in its remaining league slate a year ago. Lack of focus or rustiness after the three-week exam layoff, you might say, or maybe just underestimation of a Bulldogs team unexpected to contend in the league that season...
...Airplane noise, for example, caused an average 6.2 mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure (the pressure of blood in the artery when the heart contracts - i.e., the larger, top number) and a 7.4 mmHg increase in diastolic pressure (when the heart relaxes between beats). A snoring partner and road traffic had similar impact. And the effect was dose dependent: The louder the noise, the higher the jump in blood pressure. For every additional 5 dB in volume of aircraft noise, systolic and diastolic blood pressure rose another 0.65 mmHg each. "It's a small increase in the blood pressure, obviously...
...report was a corollary of a much larger study conducted by the same research group, examining the relationship between hypertension and nighttime exposure to noise near airports or daily exposure to road traffic noise. That study, which appeared online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives last December, involved 4,861 participants, aged 45 to 70, who had lived at least five years near a major European airport. Researchers found that nighttime airport noise was linked to a significant increase in risk for hypertension; every 10 dB increase in exposure led to a corresponding 14% rise in high blood pressure risk...
...Chocolate—fro-yo, pudding, rocky road brownies… choose your weapon...