Friday, October 13, 2006

Student-Athletes Find Support Network, Creating Leaders In Sports Foundation

Foundation Aims to Partner With Corporations, Organizations and Key Community- Based Groups to Combat Childhood Obesity

ATLANTA, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of sports-minded Atlanta executives with long-running personal commitments to scholastic athletics has founded a new non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Creating Leaders In Sports Foundation, to help talented student-athletes with sports training, operating aid, competition expenses and education, as well as to promote awareness of the childhood-obesity epidemic and the importance of physical fitness.

National data on childhood obesity reveals that many children are simply on a road to early cases of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, death and other diseases, said Daniel Rimmey, a Foundation board member and spokesperson.

For instance, according to the American Obesity Association, obesity in children and adolescents is a serious issue with many health and social consequences that often continue into adulthood. Two of the leading underlying causes of obesity are a lack of physical activity and improper dieting.

Statistics from the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion indicate that the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled over the last 20 years among children ages 6 to 11 and has more than tripled for children ages 12 to 19.

"These negative trends not only have dire implications for the welfare of our children's future health, but they also carry serious economic implications for our families and communities at large," Rimmey said. "When this trend is projected out over the next ten to twenty years what does it imply? Major corporations and organizations whose profitability is from sales related to any sports paraphernalia and physical fitness will experience major financial losses."

Rimmey added that the Foundation will work to partner with other
foundations and organizations to provide scholarships and bring national
awareness to the significance of physical fitness and its relationship to
improving a child's confidence, self-esteem and academic performance in
school.

The Foundation's board members believe that educational institutions,
organizations, major corporations and health and fitness chains can show
their community concern and awareness of this American problem by
partnering with the Foundation. MORE HERE

Foundation's Website: http://www.creatingleadersinsports.org

The Foundation's Website gives visitors the ability to chat with Foundation staff and post comments to a discussion board. It also contains links to educational resources for students and parents that, for example, outline various study guides and strategies.

Contact: Daniel Rimmey at
770-490-1084.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Does Red Wine Reduce Alzheimer's Risk?

A recent study that included mice suggests that red wine consumption may reduce the risk of Alzheimers, but it is too soon to know if the findings apply to people. The research included mice only.

The data supports the theory that one daily drink of red wine for women and two for men MAY HELP REDUCE Alzheimer's risk according to the researchers, which included Jun Wang, PhD, of the psychiatry department at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Here's an exerpt of their press release:

A new study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine has found that moderate red wine consumption in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon may help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The study entitled “ Moderate Consumption of Cabernet Sauvignon Attenuates β-amyloid Neuropathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease” is in press, and will be published in the November 2006 issue of The FASEB Journal. The breakthrough study will also be presented at the “Society for Neuroscience Meeting” held in Atlanta, Georgia, October 14-18, 2006.

“ Our study is the first to report that moderate consumption of red wine in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon delivered in the drinking water for ~7 months significantly reduces AD-type β-amyloid neuropathology, and memory deterioration in ~11-month-old transgenic mice that model AD,” reported researchers Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti and Dr. Jun Wang at Mount Sinai. “This study supports epidemiological evidence indicating that moderate wine consumption, within the range recommended by the FDA dietary guidelines of one drink per day for women and two for men, may help reduce the relative risk for AD clinical dementia.”

Hat tip to WebMD for alerting us to this research.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Walking Alone is Not Enough According to Researchers

"Generally, low-intensity activity such as walking alone is not likely going to give anybody marked health benefits compared to programs that occasionally elevate the intensity," said Dr. Vicki Harber, lead author on the Health First study, which was presented recently at the American College of Sports Medicine annual conference.

Dr. Harber and her colleagues, Dr. Wendy Rodgers, Dr. Gordon Bell and Dr. Kerry Courneya of the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation were concerned that, while people with health issues are encouraged to increase their volume of activity such as walking, there didn't seem to be much focus on the effort that needed to go into the activity. Read More Here

The source for the study is the University of Alberta.

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