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Pizza Sauce? A Vegetable?
Congress recently unveiled a new bill which includes language that will allow a serving of pizza to be considered a vegetable if spread with two tablespoons of tomato paste. The bill would deny funding to the new school meal nutrition standards that were proposed earlier this year by the USDA. Those standards include increasing the …
Coaching From The Sidelines: Denial Rampant Among Parents
“Youth sports are big business selling big dreams. And, the denial runs deep among sports parents.” At least, that’s the word from Aisha Sultan of the St. Louis Post Dispatch in an article that is garnering national attention. If your children are involved in sports, you’ve probably seen this denial. It usually …
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Youth sport injury is on the rise. What can you do?
The Chicago Tribune hosted a nationwide ‘Live Chat’ on January 18, 2011 featuring Athletic Revolution co-founder, Brian Grasso. Grasso, the founder and CEO of the International Youth Conditioning Association, answered questions from parents around the country during the 60 minute segment on injury prevention in youth sports. Due to the wintry mix on Tuesday, we were able to join in.
The topics that surfaced during the live chat moderated by Julie Deardorff of the Chicago Tribune, included sport specific training, improving endurance and overall performance through a wide range of athletic activities, dietary supplements, overall nutrition, strength training in the weight room, concussions and other injuries and their preventative factors, and the value of free play.
