Aftonbladet: Är detta tv för barn?: 26 januari
Fråga till Sveriges ortopeder: Hur gör man för att bryta knät? Beats the hell out of me...
"Tre skadas svårt i kvällens ”Gladiatorerna” - nu riskerar programmet att granskas. I kväll får den stora barnpubliken även se hur domaren Dag Olsson bryter knät i tävlingsmomentet "Gatloppet"."
Friskispressen - tidningen för Friskis&Svettis idrottsföreningar
Run4Fun: Slut med sure løbesko:
"Det er to engelske forskere og opfindere, der har udviklet en metode til at fjerne ubehagelig lugt fra skoene. Ved hjælp af en særlig gas neutraliseres den smørsyre, der giver løbeskoene den karakteristiske odeur."
latimes.com: Hormone Gel May Make Steroid's Misuse Easier: 5 juni 2000
"Some bodybuilders, athletes and men simply seeking improved libidos have long used testosterone to boost their performance, but a new gel raises the possibility of greater misuse of the steroid."
SportServer: Olympic drug testers seek upper hand in gene therapy: 25 januari
"World doping experts and Olympic officials are joining forces with the scientific community to stay ahead in what many believe will be the next frontier in performance-enhancement - genetic manipulation."
PrimaVi Motion: Träning mot smärta - ett alternativ till piller: 16 januari
"Smärta kan vara på så många olika sätt. Ibland kortvarig, som getingsticket under foten. Ibland positiv när barnet ska födas fram. Ofta är dock smärtan bara svår, men alltid med en mening; kroppens signal på att något är fel."
HealthCentral: The Future Of Fitness: Trends For 2001: 16 januari
"The future of fitness is taking a turn - for the better! Better, bigger, faster and more dramatic, that is! Take a walk through any fitness club and you’ll see a whole new style of fitness classes and programs."
Nutricise: The Weight Gain Blues: How To Pack On the Pounds Healthfully: 23 januari
"Sound like a strange question and a foreign idea? For those of us who struggle to pack the pounds on our “too skinny” bodies, gaining weight can be as big a struggle as trying to lose it.
Feelings of self-consciousness drive many weight-gainers to supplement their diets with futuristic-sounding products like Creatine or Twin Lab’s Weight Gain 2000. Still, they are often unable to gain the desired pounds."
PrimaVi: Undervikt – ett sällan omtalat problem: 22 januari
Överallt hör vi talas om övervikt och allt vad den för med sig. Råd om hur vi kan gå ner i vikt finns i alla tidningar. Sällan nämns den omvända situationen - hur det är att leva med undervikt.
PrimaVi: Mumsa på sega råttor eller knapra på bananchips?: 18 januari
Ta reda på vad som finns i godiset genom att läsa ingrediensförteckningen. Ät också med måtta. Godis är koncentrerad näring som innehåller gott om kalorier.
The Irish Times: Study links creatine to cancer risk: 25 januari
"Dr Joe Cummiskey, chief medical officer with the Olympic Council of Ireland, has called for further caution on the use of creatine after a report published yesterday suggested a possible link between the food supplement and cancer."
TV4: Gladiatorerna: Kom i form - träna med Valkyria:
"Träna dig till en starkare rygg och ett bättre självförtroede. Valkyria visar tio styrkeövningar och ger tips om vad som är bra att äta: - Ät ordentligt. Annars blir det inget resultat."
Budo & Fitness: Sportsnutrition:
"Allt du vill veta om näringslära, kost, diet och kosttillskott."
Television Internet's Valentine's Day Special: premiering January 24, 2001
"Join the cast of the net's most watched series, "Muscle Beach", for a Valentine's Day Special! They've devoted the entire episode to getting you in shape for Valentine's Day. It's true - what you eat and how you workout can affect your sex drive. By the time the guys reveal what they are feeding their dates for Valentine's Day, you'll realize ... it's definitely the sexiest episode ever!"
JAMA: Pediatricians urged to offer HIV testing to adolescents: 19 januari
"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians offer HIV testing and counseling to adolescent patients, according to a new policy statement. In particular, the authors note, adolescents should be taught:
- The dangers associated with substance abuse and sharing of drug injection equipment, including equipment used in administration of anabolic steroids."
San Francisco Chronicle: State GOP Looks to the Terminator - An actor for governor? It could happen: 25 januari
"Message to Gov. Gray Davis: "Hasta la vista, baby."
Some California GOP faithful at the Bush inauguration last weekend were talking - seriously - about the possibility of drafting actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 53, for one the toughest jobs on the planet: California governor."
HealthCentral: Setting and meeting goals may be key to happiness: 24 januari
"Setting goals that fit with your personality - self-concordant goals - and resisting the temptation to do something you feel you ought to, is key in the pursuit of happiness, the authors report."
The Salt Lake Tribune: FDA Wary of Cow Parts In Diet Supplements: 24 januari
"Scientists say some dietary supplements may contain imported extracts from brains, testicles and other organs of cattle; whether the animals were exposed to mad cow disease is unknown."
Post Gazette: Learning good habits: 23 januari
"There's more than one way to keep a student body healthy.
That's the point, exactly, of a new course, "The Student Body," at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville, in which teen-agers are creating individual plans for lifelong healthy lifestyles."
Washington Post: Adding a Little Iron to Your Life: 23 januari
"Roberta Fulmer pumps out her third set of reps on a Nautilus leg press. "I want to build strength," she says.
Next to the weight machine sits her empty wheelchair, a useful reminder of her goal: To keep pumping iron until she's strong enough to get around using only a walker. She is 82 years old."
Seattle Times: Back to basics: Exercising your options: 23 januari
"In the 10 years since Teri Henrikson first hurt her back, very little has changed about her doctor's advice on how to treat it.
Exercise. Every day. For life."
Washington Post: Rx: Pound the Pavement: 23 januari
"For the past decade the fitocracy has been telling us that, as our bodies age, we should be kind to our joints by doing more low-impact exercise. Once again, it appears that a bit of well-intentioned advice hasn't been entirely good."
This is London: Fitness First a picture of health as profits rocket: 25 januari
"Fast-growing gyms operator Fitness First unveiled another muscular set of annual figures today with a 110% jump in profits to £12.8 million."
The Hindu: The science of shaping up: 22 januari
"Bad news and good news. The bad news: Fitness is not freak anymore. The good news: It's bigger, better, faster, more. Fitness has grown bigger as a concept, with increasingly better facilities that help you tune your body faster and leave you with that fetish for perfection: more."
HealthCentral: Red Bull - Brits Say That's A Good Name For Its Health Claims, Too: 24 januari
"One day, my son handed me his can of Red Bull, a drink that's very popular among teenagers, telling me it really gives him energy. Well, one look at the label told me his peppiness was no mystery. Red Bull has caffeine, amino acids and sugar. This is a can of cold coffee."
AskMen.com: Leg Workout: Part I Glutes and Quadriceps: 25 januari
"Have you ever felt drained, dizzy or even nauseous after an intense weight training session? Well guess what? You should experience one of these symptoms each and every time you properly work out your legs."
Yahoo! News: Creatine Use Could Lead to Cancer - Report: 24 januari
"Creatine, a dietary supplement used by many athletes to increase muscle bulk, could lead to cancer, a French government agency said on Wednesday.
The sale of creatine is banned in France, however, and it is also banned by the French Rugby Union."
Yahoo! News: Alcohol Is College Athletes' Drug of Choice: 25 januari
"Although sports have been shown to help young people stay healthy and out of trouble, substance abuse remains common among college athletes. And new research suggests the most popular drug on college campuses - alcohol - is even more frequently abused by athletes."
Yahoo! News: High Calcium Intake Can Lead to Weight Loss in Women: 25 januari
"Young women who are trying to lose weight often eschew dairy products because they tend to be high in fat. But a recent study reports that women with the highest intake of calcium from dairy foods - relative to the number of calories they consumed each day - lost the most weight and body fat over 2 years, regardless of exercise."
BBC News: Massage 'pointless' for athletes: 29 mars 2000
"Massage, which is thought to help athletes speed up muscle recovery after sporting performance, is actually of little physical benefit, say researchers."
BBC News: Energy drink claims rejected: 24 januari
"The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints about the claims made for the "energy" drink Red Bull."
abcnews.com: Physics Offers Lessons in How to Take a Hit: 23 januari
"When Ray Lewis chases Tiki Barber and drags him down onto the turf, it may not look pretty, but he's actually employing some elegant, precise laws of physics, including: p = m*v."
YourHealthDaily: Athletes Seek Out Psychologists to Improve Performance: 25 januari
"More and more teenage athletes are sinking into the couches of sport psychologists, hoping it will save them from mediocrity in a world that values champions. By high school, many teenagers feel they can't handle more than one sport, let alone be ordinary at it. So they go for a psychological edge, hoping to be mentally tweaked into shooting flawless free throws or sinking perfect putts."
CNN: Vitamin-popping public gets some advice: 16 januari
"Call it vitamania: About 40 percent of Americans pop vitamin pills. But just how much of each vitamin does your body need? When does food provide enough? And how much is too much?"
BBC News: Eating to succeed in sport: 5 augusti 1999
"Few top athletes eat simply an everyday healthy diet - most use one or more food or vitamin supplements to boost their performance. A wide array of perfectly-legal substances are taken to improve fitness and allow athletes to gain extra muscle."
NewsOnline: Nu finns hjälp att få när influensan redan brutit ut: 25 januari
"På många håll i landet är influensavaccinet slut. Men för de som drabbas av influensan finns det ändå hjälp att få. Läkemedlet Relenza, som godkändes av Läkemedelsverket för två år sedan förkortar sjukdomstiden, lindrar de typiska influensasymptomen och minskar risken för följdsjukdomar."
Jyllands-Posten: Stigende misbrug af kosttilskud: 25 januari
"Midt i mellem vitaminpiller og dopingmidler findes der er en lang række lovlige gråzone-produkter. Et af dem er kreatin, og det er et populært middel blandt unge mennesker. Men Anti Doping Danmark fraråder brugen af det."
Jyllands-Posten: De vil lige se, hvordan det virker: 24 januari
"1.z på Falkonergårdens Gymnasium på Frederiksberg er en såkaldt Team Danmark-klasse. Holdningen til doping er klart afvisende, men når det kommer til kosttilskud er tonen en anden: En tredjedel af eleverne indtager proteinpulver, og næsten alle kosttilskud er OK - bare de ikke er ulovlige!"
NetDoktor: Doping: 24 januari
"Mange af de ulovlige dopingstoffer, som man kan bestille over Internettet, er virkelig farlige. Derfor advarer læger og medicinalfirmaer mod, at man køber dem.
"De fleste dopingstoffer på nettet bliver ikke produceret af respekterede og kontrollerede firmaer. Der findes en lang række undergrundsfirmaer, og de skal tjene penge. Så er det jo klart, at de tilsætter så meget billigt stads som muligt, akkurat som det kendes i narkotikaverdenen", siger læge Rasmus Damsgaard fra Anti Doping Danmark."
NetDoktor: Antioxidanter: 25 januari
"Læge Niels Hertz kritiserer et udsagn fra professor Arne Astrup om, at antioxidanter er farlige. Han henviser til, at der er tale om en undersøgelse fra Fødevaredirektoratet, der endnu ikke har været diskuteret fagligt, og at resultaterne af undersøgelsen bør lede til yderligere forsøg."
ReutersHealth: Fast and steady walking wins the calorie-burning race: 24 januari
Everyone agrees with the public health messages that call for regular, moderate exercise. However, the best way for the average couch potato to exercise is as clear as mud. Now results from a small study suggest that ideally, daily exercise should come in one steady dose, instead of 10 minutes here and there.
abcnews.com: Conference: Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders Linked: 24 januari
There are more than 5 million Americans — mostly women — who suffer from eating disorders, such as bulimia, which is characterized by compulsive bingeing and purging. Of those, experts estimate about half also have a substance abuse problem. Although the link between the two is still unclear, some scientists believe there is a connection and that ignoring it makes it impossible for sufferers to recover.
Musclemonthly: Westside Powerlifting: Torso Training for the Squat and Deadlift: 15 januari
One question I am asked all the time is how can I increase my squat and deadlift. Most all problems associated with these two lifts boil down to one reason. The lifter has a weak torso. The midsection is the key when it comes to the powerlifts.
nzoom.com: Know your gym etiquette:
"Just joined a gym for the new year? Most gyms have rules posted in the workout floor. But there is a list of unspoken etiquette guidelines you'll never see on a wall."
Fitnesslink: Is Aerobic Training Really Necessary For Fat Loss?:
Weight training builds muscle. Aerobic activity burns fat. Most authorities agree. Much of the research concurs. I believed it too. There's just one little problem - I haven't seen reality coincide with the research. In my experience, aerobic activity is not an effective way to burn fat. In fact, I would say aerobics aren't good for much of anything.
SVD: Tio års kampanj mot rökning slag i luften: 25 januari
I en bekymrad kommentar i tidningen sägs att kunskapen om varför ungdomar egentligen börjar röka fortfarande är bristfällig. Misslyckandet sägs också vara en tankeställare både för förebyggande hälsoarbete i stort och för forskningen om detta. Uppenbarligen behövs nya tankar och idéer.
Smelink: Hela hälsosverige på Allt för hälsan: 11 januari
Andedräktsprover, bentäthetsmätningar, skrattseminarier, framtidens mat, cykelsimulatorer, egenvårdsläkemedel och hälsosamma datorprogram är bara några av aktiviteterna på Allt för hälsan i vinter.
Den 16-18 februari samlas för första gången Sveriges hälsoaktörer för att göra gemensam sak för människors hälsa.
NetDoktor: Water on the brain discovery: 25 januari
Scientists at Bristol University have found that drinking water at the wrong time can impair mental performance. But those who are genuinely dehydrated can benefit from drinking tap water before undertaking activities, particularly those requiring a fast reaction time.
NetDoktor: Kosttilskud: 25 januari
Kosttilskud kan købes lovligt, og de er populære, men Anti Doping Danmark advarer sportsudøvere mod at bruge dem. Det gælder blandt andet stoffet kreatin. "Jeg er helt overbevist om, at kreatin bør stå på dopinglisten over forbudte stoffer."
Aftonbladet: Vem tycker du är för tjock?: 25 januari
Till Viktväktarna är du välkommen – även om du är smal. Och för att fler ska lyckas, har företaget sänkt kraven på bantarna och ger dem mer uppmuntran på vägen. – Vi vill att vår verksamhet ska öka, säger vd Helen Lindgren.
Strength Online: How to Build Your Own Power Rack:
Safety should be your main concern with a rack. I cannot quantify any comparisons. I know that I'm using the same materials as commercial scaffolders who erect scaffolds several floors high. The fittings are rated for 2000 or so pounds and the pipe for more than that, I believe.
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