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Swimming skills lacking in minority communities SCNow Share     A 2010 study conducted by the University of Memphis found that 70 percent of black children have no or very low swimming abilities compared with 40 percent of white children. And it's not only African-Americans. The study shows as many as 58 percent of Hispanic children have little or no swimming abilities. Not knowing how to swim is not a recreational issue, but one of safety, said Sue Anderson, director of programs and services for USA Swimming, who commissioned the university's swimming study. More
Panel: Obesity is century's greatest public health threat USA Today Share
People in this country must slash their calories and increase physical activity because the obesity epidemic is "the single greatest threat to public health in this century," says an expert panel in a recent report. The advisory report for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans calls on people to cut the calories they consume from added sugars and solid fats (butter, marbled meats) and start eating a more nutrient-rich, plant-based diet. More New guidelines approve swim lessons starting at age 1 Lexington Herald-Leader Share
Now that the American Academy of Pediatrics has released new guidelines suggesting that children should start taking swimming lessons at age 1, parents might wonder how they should go about teaching their toddler to navigate the water. More
Cognitive surplus: The great Spare-time revolution Wired Magazine Share
Clay Shirky and Daniel Pink have led eerily parallel lives. Both grew up in Midwest university towns in the 1970s, where they spent their formative years watching television after school and at night. Both later went to Yale (a BA in painting for Shirky, a law degree for Pink). And both eventually abandoned their chosen fields to write about technology, business, and society. Now their paths are intersecting. In December, Pink, a Wired contributing editor, came out with Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. The book digs through more than five decades of behavioral science to challenge the orthodoxy that carrots and sticks are the most effective ways to motivate workers in the 21st century. Instead, he argues, the most enduring motivations aren't external but internal-things we do for our own satisfaction. More Minnesota swimmer aims to achieve rare feat Stamford Advocate Share
Samantha Simon has been fearless for as long as her parents can remember. Sam is a 20-year-old distance swimmer for the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and a daring, open-water marathoner braving the high seas. She conquered the coveted English Channel swim at 19 last summer and plans to complete the Triple Crown of marathon swimming this summer when she takes on the Manhattan Island Swim on June 12 and the Catalina Channel swim off the coast of California on Aug. 1-2. That's more than 70 miles of swimming. Dangerous swimming. Swimming that fewer than 40 people have ever completed. More
How your body processes what you eat and when you exercise Gather Share
One may ask how the body knows when the eating and exercise levels are appropriate to support the metabolism. It is as if the body does a scan for viruses and errors as a computer does on a regularly schedule basis. The body evaluates whether it is receiving enough food to support the amount of activity it requires. It is believed that the body is on a 72/48 hours schedule. More Workout harder with a beat Toronto Sun Share
Rock, hip hop or R&B, if it has a pounding tempo music can really rock your cardio workout. Fitness experts say boosted by that backbeat you might not even notice that you're working harder. "Higher tempo certainly seems to drive the intensity of exercise performance," said Dr. Cedric Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Bryant said preliminary results of an ACE-commissioned study on how music affects exercise performance suggest that under the influence of a strong beat, exercisers will actually work harder than they think they do. More
Can metabolic weight training boost fat loss? Gather Share
Since the 1980's, exercising for 45 minutes at a time on a treadmill has been the standard method for weight loss. However one new strategy, "metabolic training" may be the answer slimmers are achieve sooner, more efficient slimming. Very popular since 2008, metabolic weight training significantly promotes your body metabolism to manage burning excess calories for at least two days after you have completed your training session - approximately giving you an additional two days per training session to lose excess body fat. More |
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