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1. By local produce or frozen organic produce. Local produce comes your table with much shorter travel times than organic produce from afar. The longer the travel time, the less the nutrient value. Frozen organic produce is frozen right after it is harvested thereby maintaining a higher nutrient value.
2. Avoid all fake and processed foods. No sugar!!! Read labels!
3. Stop drinking from all plastic water bottles! Most have BPA - Bisphenol-A, a nasty estrogen causing endocrine disruptor. Read more here ...
4. Eat raw organic nuts. Almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans.
5. Eat an adequate amount of Omega 3 fats - salmon, trout, sardines, and herring and/or take a high quality fish oil supplement.
6. Eat healthy, saturated fats like grass fed beef & coconut oil. Try Gunpowder Bison! Tell them I sent you!
7. Perform high intensity strength training: clubbells, kettlebells, weightlifting, sprinting, TRX.
8. Discontinue "cardio" like the elliptical, treadmill, bike UNLESS you are a distance athlete. 
9. Limit your workouts to 45-60 minutes, again, unless you are a distance athlete.
10. Get 20-minutes of sunlight per day to boost your Vitamin D levels. Get your minimum erythemal dose (stay in the  midday sun for the amount of time it takes for you to get ever so slightly red) BEFORE you put on sunscreen.
11. Have sex more often.
12. Compete in something.
13. Get 8-9 hours of sleep per night.
14. Minimize stress and laugh every day - learn what makes you relax (music, sex, taking a slow walk, meditation,Tai Chi, Yoga) and do it daily. Download some funny videos onto your smart phone and take a break multiple times throughout the day.

Aspirin No Help for Stroke Outcomes

A new study just published in Stroke, Journal of the American Heart Association, showed that using low dose aspirin did not decrease the overall incidence of stroke or improve outcomes following a stroke.

 The Women's Health Study, a clinical trial run by the N.I.H, looked at randomized low-dose aspirin and Vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer.

This study showed that there was no significant difference in total stroke incidence between women randomized to 100 mg of aspirin every other day and those randomized to placebo. 

So, this begs the question, if you do take low-dose aspirin daily, why? 

Before we discuss why, how about the study in the June 6, 2012 issue of JAMA, 

Association of Aspirin Use With Major Bleeding in Patients With and Without Diabetes.

The authors concluded, "... aspirin use was significantly associated with an increased risk of major gastrointestinal or cerebral bleeding episodes." Yikes!

So, once again, why do you take low-dose aspirin?

How about making dietary improvements, starting an exercise program, and supplementing with a high quality fish oil!

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Practical management of sudden cardiac arrest on the football field

The British Journal of Sports Medicine recently published guidelines for the management of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) on the football (soccer) field. These guidelines are certainly applicable to all sporting events.
What are the take home points?

1. Make an Emergency Plan and make sure all coaches know this plan.
2. All coaches must know CPR and how to use an AED.
3. An AED should be at every event and coaches must know where it is!

For the complete guidelines, see below.

Key recommendations for emergency planning for sudden cardiac arrest on the football field

• Every team and venue hosting football training or competition should have a written emergency response plan for SCA.
• Potential responders to SCA on the field (ie, coaches, referees, physiotherapists, athletic trainers, and other medical staff) should be regularly trained in CPR and AED use, and demonstrate skills proficiency in this regard.
• An AED should be immediately available on the pitch during competitions.
• Both teams should review prior to the match the location of the AED and details of the emergency response plan.
• AED, automated external defibrillator; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; SCA, sudden cardiac arrest.
  Practical management of sudden cardiac arrest on the football field
  • Prompt recognition of SCA
  • SCA should be assumed in any collapsed and unresponsive athlete
  • Seizure-like activity, and abnormal breathing or gasping must be accepted as SCA until proven otherwise
  • Early activation of the emergency medical response system and call for additional rescuer assistance
  • Early CPR
  • If unresponsive and not breathing normally, begin Hands-Only (compression only) CPR—push hard, push fast
  • C−A−B (chest compressions−airway−breathing).
  • Immediate retrieval of the AED or manual defibrillator.
  • Application of the AED or manual defibrillator as soon as possible—while CPR continues. Stop CPR only for rhythm analysis and shock delivery if indicated
  • If no shock is delivered, CPR and life support measures should be continued until the player becomes responsive or a non-cardiac aetiology can be clearly established.
  • If a shock is delivered, immediately continue CPR for 2 minutes, then allow AED to reanalyse the rhythm.
  • On the discretion of the senior clinician on scene, transport of the SCA victim to a hospital facility capable of advanced cardiac life support, realising that effective CPR should be continued en route.
  • Upon return of spontaneous circulation, while still in coma, rapid cooling (induced hypothermia) for SCA victims with VF arrest has been shown to improve survival and decrease neurological complications.
  • AED, automated external defibrillator; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; SCA, sudden cardiac arrest; VF, ventricular fibrillation.
    Click here for the full study.

Soccer Specific Fitness

Dawn Scott, the fitness coach for the U.S. Women’s National Team, has written a great article on soccer fitness.

The key points are:

1. The two key aspects of soccer fitness are speed and endurance.
2.  There is a “new term called ‘repeated sprint ability,’ or RSA, which refers to speed endurance, or how you repeatedly sprint in a game. You don’t run at one pace for 90 minutes in a game. Rather, you constantly sprint and recover, or run at different speeds and recover. Players want to be able to sprint with the same qualities in the 90^th minute as they do in the first minute. RSA is a measure of this.”
3. “Strength is the basis to every other aspect of fitness. If you don’t have strength, you can have a weakness when you try to develop any other type of fitness.“
4. “One of the things with females that research has shown is that you tend to have a higher incidence of ACL injury in female players. With that in mind, I would make sure that female players are doing appropriate strength programs, especially strengthening the areas around the knees, to try to offset the chance of injuries like that.”
5. “At the younger ages I would be doing specific sessions focused on developing agility, balance, and coordination. It doesn’t have to be intense but it’s programming the body to move in a certain way and building up basic strength using body weight, fun games and so on. You’re doing age appropriate work at those ages and then as they get older you can develop those programs and add in other components of fitness that are appropriate.”
6. Recovery strategies are critical. Nutrition, hydration, sleep, and ice baths are important

For the full article, click here.

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