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American roulette - Contaminated dietary supplements The New England Journal of Medicine Pieter A. Cohen, M.D. Share     In one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, one portly police sergeant has more to worry about than crime. His doctor had been encouraging him for years to lose weight, and like millions of other Americans, he decided to try a weight-loss supplement to help him shed his extra pounds. But instead of losing weight, he lost his job. According to the label, his diet pills, which were imported from Brazil and sold in the United States, contained vitamin E, centella, senna, and cascara, among other "natural" ingredients. Not included on the label was the amphetamine detected in his urine drug screen. The now-unemployed sergeant is not alone. Such contaminated supplements represent an emerging risk to public health. More
A breaststroke that is hard to imitate and all but impossible to beat The New York Times Share
Breaststrokers are fish of a different school, with styles straight out of Dr. Seuss: flat strokes, surge strokes, high strokes, low strokes. At the moment, the quirkiest - and quickest - breaststroke among the women belongs to Rebecca Soni, the American-record holder for the 200-meter event and the fastest in the world this year in the 100 and the 200. On the final night of the Pan Pacific Championships, Soni came within a half-second of her world record in the 200 breaststroke—an event in which she owns the six fastest times this year—with a clocking of 2 minutes 20.69 seconds. Earlier in the week, she defeated the deepest 100-meter breaststroke field of the summer at the event. More New secret to building muscle revealed: Pump less iron Fox News Share
No need to strain yourself with back-breaking weight-lifting sessions involving heavy barbells. Muscle mass can be achieved just as successfully using small weights, a new study shows. The research revealed a similar degree of muscle-building can be achieved by using lighter weights as with bulkier ones, suggesting the secret to building muscle mass is to pump iron until you reach muscle fatigue. More Pan Pacific Championships: What we learned Universal Sports Share
The Pan Pacific Champsionships provided lessons for swimmers and fans alike. After a week by the pool in Irvine, Calif., this article explains five things we learned. More
32 years later, Diana Nyad to try Cuba-Florida Keys swim again The Miami Herald Share
The plan was a world-record 103-mile swim in roughly 60 hours. Mother Nature got in the way. But Nyad, a successful marathon swimmer, wants to keep going. She calls it her "personal Olympics," says nothing but a hurricane could stop her. She finally concedes and aborts her dream. Her heart sinks as her friends lift her into the boat and applaud. Thirty-two years later, Nyad, who recently turned 61, will attempt to conquer the swim that defeated her. More Thousands of heat illnesses occur in teen athletes yearly HealthDay via Modern Medicine Share
On average, high school athletes in the United States have an estimated 9,237 time-loss heat illnesses annually, and the highest rate is among football players, according to a report in the Aug. 20, issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. More Chinese women point to future of swimming The Times of India Share
The future of women's swimming revealed itself at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore, and it had a distinctly Chinese flavor. Less than two years away from the London Olympics, China's women won 11 medals at the Games for 14 to 18-year-olds. While China's women were in top form, traditional swimming power Australia won the most medals overall of any team with 16. More Are frequent headaches a cause—or a consequence—of an unhealthy lifestyle? Los Angeles Times Share
Are teens with poor health habits more likely to come down with migraines and other types of headaches? Or do headaches prompt teens to do unhealthy things, like smoke and spend too much time in front of the TV? These are the questions raised by a new study of risk factors associated headaches among 5,847 Norwegian teenagers. The 13- to 18-year-olds were all participants in a nationwide health study aimed at junior high and high school students in the 1990s. In addition to being weighed and measured, the teens spent an hour answering a variety of health-related questions. More |
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