Category: Health
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Stephanie Rice suffers shoulder infection following surgery
Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has had a minor setback in her recovery from shoulder surgery last week, with an infection now forcing her to miss training. Rice’s doctor ordered her to avoid training today, “Doc said it was slightly infected. Got some antibiotics and can get into xtraining again tomorrow,” Rice tweeted. Coach Michael…
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Woman allergic to water unable to cry or swim
25-year-old Katie Dell suffers from a rare disease called aquagenic urticarial that makes her skin react with pain and rashes if drenched in water. She left her job as a dance trainer because sweat causes her rashes, she has to rush her baths, cannot cry and cannot do the dishes. Living in Britain, it has…
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2-year-old boy survives 30 minutes underwater (!)
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename…
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HIV-positive couple jailed for swimming pool sex act
An HIV-positive Edinburgh couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. This was while children were swimming nearby, and when asked to leave the premises, they first asked for their entrance money back, and then spat at police officers and a pool…
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Oussama Mellouli pops rib head, might pull out of Arab Games
Ouch, that sounds painful http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144152232986816513 He is still swimming, but suffering http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144288573229760512
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Swimmers brave icy water in Beijing for good health
Also in China it is believed swimming in near freezing water during the winter months strengthens the immune system of one’s body. Via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com Beijing Ice Swimming a Hot Winter Sport by NTDTV
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Dana Vollmer ‘lives on pizza’
According to Universal Sports, U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer discovered this year that she is allergic to gluten and eggs, meaning no bread and no all-American breakfast. Recently she and her husband discovered a solution in the form of gluten- and egg-free pizza crust, that tastes like normal pizza, and that she therefore uses for pizza…
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Open Water Swimming Nutrition: Why We Get Fat
Interesting, still think that it helps to hold back a little :-)
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Dale Ostrander recovering well
12-year-old Dale Ostrander still has a long way to go after having drowned and been under water for 15 minutes last August, but now he can play video games and recently started 7th grade. Via kgw.com