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November 24, 2009

HEIDEN ORTHOPAEDICS ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF
“HEIDEN ORTHOPAEDICS SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP”

Two students selected for inaugural scholarship

Park City, UT— Heiden Orthopaedics is pleased to announce the selection of not one, but two recipients of the first annual “Heiden Orthopaedics Sport and Health Science Scholarship.”

Park City High School seniors Matthew Wolbach and Samantha Crouch were each selected to receive the scholarship, which includes $500 towards college tuition, as well as an experiential component, accompanying five-time Olympic gold medalist and orthopedic surgeon Eric Heiden in his role as team physician for the U.S. Speedskating team, to the Speedskating World Cup at the Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah in December.

On October 24, NSLI-Y Russia Academic Year 2010-2011 Kazan participants and local FLEX alumni collaborated with their partners from Kazan’s American Center to provide a fun and educational event for children at one of Kazan’s orphanages. Funding for supplies and prizes for the event was made possible by a USAID grant recently awarded to the American Center. The event focused on promoting a healthy lifestyle by being physically active. After numerous planning sessions at the American Center, the NSLI-Y/FLEX/American Center team was ready to engage the children of the orphanage in the name of sports, healthy living, and cultural exchange.

The event began early Sunday morning, with a PowerPoint presentation covering sports that are popular in both Russia and the United States. Well-known sports such as hockey, ice-skating, basketball, and soccer were presented, but less common sports – snowboarding, surfing, and cross-country running – were also highlighted. Activities that the children themselves can take part in at the orphanage, such as jump-roping, hula-hooping, and jogging were also included. The presentation was followed by a sports trivia challenge, complete with prizes including soccer balls, basketballs, hula-hoops, jump ropes, chess sets, Frisbees, and a mini-bowling set.

Los esteroides anabólicos son derivados de la testosterona (hormona sexual masculina). La testosterona es una hormona segregada por los testículos del hombre y los animales. Su efecto anabólico es producto de la retención de nitrógeno por parte del tejido muscular. La testosterona es convertida por una reductasa en dihidrotestosterona, que aumenta la síntesis de RNA (ácido ribonucleico) y proteína.

En Fisicoculturismo y Fitness los anabólicos esteroides se utilizan para obtener volumen y masa muscular.

¿CUALES SON LOS DE USO MAS COMUN EN FISICOCULTURISMO?

Existen distintos tipos de anabólicos esteroides, los cuales se pueden utilizar solos o combinados:
ESTANOZOLOL

El Estanozolol es un esteroide de los más usados, ya que produce un buen efecto de desarrollo muscular casi sin producir efectos colaterales indeseables. Es un derivado de la dihidrotestosterona y su actividad androgénica es muy leve.

En el libro sobre dopaje y deporte de la colección ¿Y tú?, ¿qué opinas? aparecen detalladas las distintas sustancias dopantes que los deportistas  han usado o usan en la actualidad para potenciar su rendimiento. Las consecuencias del consumo de estas sustancias suelen ser muy negativas.

Uno de los casos expuestos es el de Lyle Alzado, jugador de fútbol americano que murió a los 42 años a causa de un cáncer cerebral provocado por el consumo de esteroides.

Sugary Sports Drinks Mistakenly Associated With Being Healthy, Say Researchers

ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2010) — Children who practice healthy lifestyle habits such as eating fruits and vegetables and engaging in physical activity may be negatively impacting their health because they tend to consume large amounts of flavored and sports beverages containing sugar, according to research at The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

“Children and parents associate these drinks with a healthy lifestyle despite their increased amount of sugar and lack of nutritional value,” said Nalini Ranjit, Ph.D., principal investigator and assistant professor of behavioral sciences at the UTHealth School of Public Health. The study will be published in the October issue of Pediatrics.

Researchers examined the association between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, unhealthy and healthy foods and physical activity levels of 8th and 11thgrade Texas students to determine the relationship between beverage consumption and other behaviors. Sugar-sweetened beverages are drinks that contain added caloric sweeteners such as sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, including a large variety of carbonated and noncarbonated drinks but excluding 100 percent fruit juice.

Written by Paul L.

On Sept 29, 2010

Are your kids active or participating in an organized sport?  Do you happen to have a 24-pack sports drink sitting in your pantry?  If you answered yes then you may have been duped.  A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics shows that teens often perceive sports drinks as part of a healthy lifestyle despite the high sugar content of the beverage.

Dr. Ranjit and colleagues at the University of Texas School of Public Health asked 15,000 teenagers about their eating and exercise habits and their beverage consumption.  Of the teenagers surveyed, 22% of the boys and 17% of the girls were obese.  One-in-four (28%) teenager reported consuming three or more sugar-sweetened beverages (that included sports and fruit-flavoured drinks) on a daily basis.