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SOLO-SPORT KID ATHLETES MAY HAVE HIGHER INJURY RISK

New research backs up what many parents and coaches have suspected about young athletes who play just one sport all year around. They’re more likely to be injured than kids who mix it up a bit. Researchers with the Loyola University Health System looked at 154 athletes, all around 14 years old, who were visiting [...]

EXERCISE REDUCES MIGRAINE HEADACHES

Doctors might want to start prescribing gym memberships to migraine sufferers. According to a study in the International Journal of Sports Medicine, regular exercise can reduce the number and intensity of migraine headaches. Patients who took up a 10-week running program reported a drop of about 40% in the quantity and intensity of migraines – [...]

WHY IS THE NFL OBSESSED WITH PLAYERS IQs?

If book smarts translated to field sense, NFL coaches would be desperately recruiting mathletes. But a soaring SAT score is the last thing you need on a football field. According to Jonah Lehrer, author of the 2009 bestseller How We Decide, “The velocity of the game makes thought impossible.” Instead of thinking, athletes rely of [...]

JUST A LITTLE EXERCISE CAN LENGTHEN YOUR LIFE

A new study of 400,000 people in Taiwan who were followed for 8.5 years showed that even a minimal amount of exercise can help you live longer. According to the study, just 15 minutes of daily exercise lowers the risk of death by 14% and increases life expectancy by 3 years.

WHAT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMEN’S SPORT?

No, it is not any of the sports you’re thinking of. From 1982 to 2007, cheerleading accounted for 57% of the catastrophic and fatal injuries among female athletes.

TONING SHOES MAY LEAVE YOU WOBBLY – OR WORSE

The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s new product-complaint database suggests that toning shoes, such as Skechers Shape-ups, might be causing injuries. As of late May 2011, 36 people reported injuries associated with toning shoes. That’s more complaints than for any other single type of product in the database, which was started in March 2011. Most of [...]

WHICH ACTIVITIES MAKE MEN LOOK HOT TO WOMEN?

Guys, if you want the best chance of getting the eye of hot women, take up climbing because, according the Quirkology.com, 57% of women think men climbing is hot. If hanging off of rocks in high places is not your thing, consider taking up an extreme sport because 56% of the women they surveyed said [...]

SWIMMING POOLS CAN KILL YOU AND NOT JUST FROM DROWNING

An estimated 350 kids drown in backyard swimming pools every year. In fact, drowning in a swimming pool is the second leading cause of death in children 12 and under in the United States. But the danger of pools isn’t even limited to drowning. We all had a friend in grade school who swears up [...]

THE NFL STRIKE OF 1987

Those who don’t learn from history are at risk to repeat mistakes of the past. The NFL players and owners would do well to remember what happened the last time a strike effected an NFL season. In 1987, without much of a reason, players went of a 24-day strike when their old agreement expired. The [...]

HOT WEATHER MAKES PITCHERS THROW MORE BEAN BALLS

The black-and-blue rule of baseball – if your pitcher beans our batter, our pitcher will bean yours – it turns out, is highly dependent on the weather. Richard P. Larrick, a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and his colleagues examined every at-bat in every Major League Baseball game since 1952, keeping an [...]

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