The McMinnville, Oregon high school football team had 19 of its members in the hospital with super-elevated creatine kinase in ther systems. So much, in fact, that their triceps were at risk of rupturing.
Most gym rats nowdays swear by creatine kinase, an enzyme that helps you more quickly replace a phosphate onto ADP, returning it to its highest energy state, ATP. I can see one or two kids having a creatine OD, but 19?
Monday, August 23, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Puberty Arrives Early for the Heavy Kids
This NBC "revelation" reveals something we've known for decades--fatter children, especially girls, hit puberty early. These stories that purport to bring us new info drive me crazy. This was considered common knowledge when I was getting my undergrad in Sport Science at the University of Idaho: More body fat = more estrogen = faster onset of puberty.
Very simply, if you allow your daughter to get fat, she will not only grow up believing it's a suitable way to exist, she'll have a higher risk of everything bad. Diabetes, heart disease, asthma, every cancer known to man, etc. Further, you're denying her the pleasure of competing in sports, overcoming physical challenges, and learning self discipline.
Bottom line: if you let your kids get fat, you're dooming them to all sorts of problems they shouldn't have to deal with. Be a real parent, not an emotional wimp, and make your kids do things that your grandmother made your mom do: eat their veggies, turn off the TV, get to bed on time, and go do some physically-challenging chores. And as for you? Drop and give me 30.
Very simply, if you allow your daughter to get fat, she will not only grow up believing it's a suitable way to exist, she'll have a higher risk of everything bad. Diabetes, heart disease, asthma, every cancer known to man, etc. Further, you're denying her the pleasure of competing in sports, overcoming physical challenges, and learning self discipline.
Bottom line: if you let your kids get fat, you're dooming them to all sorts of problems they shouldn't have to deal with. Be a real parent, not an emotional wimp, and make your kids do things that your grandmother made your mom do: eat their veggies, turn off the TV, get to bed on time, and go do some physically-challenging chores. And as for you? Drop and give me 30.
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