Sports Program Helps Girls Fight Eating Disorders
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Incorporating short, weekly sessions on healthy living and social pressures into sports training appears to help young girls fight impulses to diet excessively
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Chicago - In today&#39;s on-the-run society, the traditional sit-down family meal has pretty much gone by the wayside. But researchers say restoring regular family meals can help teenage girls avoid dangerous eating disorders.
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A nutritional guide spells out what elite - and amateur athletes need to eat.
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Lori Robinson was excited when she learned that her health club had another gym catering to children &#151; she thought it was an excellent idea for her two teenage daughters, who were slightly overweight.
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Teen girls who frequently weighed themselves were more likely than others to resort to unhealthy dieting measures, and some ended up gaining close to twice as much weight, a study of Minnesota students found.
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Program focuses on developing running, passing and catching skills, as well as teamwork and self-confidence.
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It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It&#39;s encouraged. The program makes it easier for kids squeezed for time to squeeze in breakfast.
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Several of the biggest, most powerful sports organizations in the United States announced Thursday the formation of a joint antidoping research program.
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After-school sports club are being launched to improve basic skills like throwing and catching.
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As teammate Trish Erickson laughs in the background, Southwest Ambulance EMT Karina Jones, right, chows down in a pie-eating contest against Salt Lake City firefighters Saturday at Z'Tejas. The restaurant donated money for each item ordered.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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At a clinic for anorexia sufferers, I found real girls behind the sensationalized images of this tragic disorder.
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NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10 - A short, moderately intense exercise intervention helped third-graders switch to healthier activities such as soccer and swimming instead of watching TV, researchers reported at the
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Devastated by doping, a sport looks to youth to revive its fortunes
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An underground subculture of teenage girls who bond over their eating disorders and glorify bone-thin celebrities has surfaced on the Internet, in a growing trend that experts say frustrates treatment.
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Young sufferers of anorexia and bulimia who try to hide their eating problems from their parents and doctors are turning to a growing number of Internet chat rooms dedicated to perpetuating their illness.
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Students looking to get involved in fund-raisers that benefit the cure for cancer research can join the cause, as spectators or as participants in athletic events for October&#39;s National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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Teenage asthmatics would like to participate more fully in sports and other school activities, but feel hampered by their disease, according to an a University of Missouri allergist.