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Category: Health

  • USA Swimming: Energy drinks a no-go for young swimmers

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    The USA Swimming Sports Medicine and Science Committee has recently reviewed the risks and benefits related to energy drinks, and concludes that children and teens should avoid them. “Sports drinks” like Gatorade are OK, meaning drinks containing a small amount of carbohydrates, minerals, electrolytes and flavorings, designed to replace those nutrients lost through sweating after…

  • Eric Shanteau’s Swim For Your Life

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    On October 8 at Lake Lanier Islands resort just outside of Atlanta, Ga., Eric Shanteau held his second Swim For Your Life event, benefiting Lance Armstrong’s cancer charity LIVESTRONG. Participants including Shantau himself, Aaron Peirsol, Katie Hoff, Kathleen Hersey, Mark Gangloff, Amanda Wier and Tyler McGill could choose between a 500 yard, one mile og…

  • Whyte won’t let whip from wave wipe her out

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    Confession, this story got through here mostly because of the title. Happy that this is not a podcast, right now. Via WinonaDailyNews.com: As the boat busted through the lake water, the second wave turned out to be a doozy. So much so, it would change the next three months of Morgan Whyte’s life. “We hit…

  • 68-year-old Dr. Katz busy to keep seniors healthy with swimming

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    Totally positive video here with former Olympic swimmer Dr. Jane Katz, Professor of Health and Physical Education helping seniors keep in shape and fighting the signs of aging with swimming. Love it! Via ABC News. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

  • Walliams had bugs laying eggs in his guts during Thames swim

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    Nice, while swimming the length of the Thames, David Walliams contracted the diarrheal infection Giardiasis, from the exposure to sewage contaminated water. And tore a disc in his back. Giardiasis or ‘beaver fever’ is an infection of the small intestine by a single-celled organism called Giardia lamblia, that breeds by laying eggs in your intestines…

  • Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 1

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    This last week we had Dr Homayun Gharavi MD PhD PhD visiting Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in their home pool in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, where he did intensive work with Pál and also conducted quite a few dryland sessions for him, his club and some visitors. This is a big shot double-PhD medical…

  • Still swimming, still smiling after 100 years

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    Even on his 100th birthday, Bill Toivonen is in the pool staying fit. The aerobics help the arthritis but also provide fun, fellowship and plenty of laughs. Read kare11.com “Part of the therapy is being around happy people,” chuckles Bill. “I feel as good as I did when I was 99.”

  • 10% of Chinese swimming pools contain excessive urea

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    China’s Health Ministry announced over the weekend that 10 percent of public swimming pools in China exceed the safe limit for urea levels. The study was released after the Health Ministry inspected 5,639 swimming pools in 24 Chinese provinces, municipalities and regions from June through August 2011. Read for instance The Inquisitr, China Daily and…

  • David Walliams still unable to walk after 140-mile charity swim

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    Two weeks after completing his 140-mile swim along the Thames, David Walliams continues to pay the price for it in terms of his health. He tore a disc in his back as a result of the swim, is ordered by his doctors not to leave his hospital bed, has to undergo physio, and has also…