Retired NFL players at increased risk for heart problems
Screening for cardiovascular problems in elite-level football players should begin in high school and continue throughout the lives of college and professional players. Mayo Clinic physicians based that conclusion on the results of their new study of the cardiovascular health of 233 retired National Football League (NFL) players.
The Mayo data showed that 82 percent of NFL players under age 50 had abnormal narrowing and blockages in arteries, compared to the general population of the same age. This finding suggests that the former athletes face increased risk of experiencing high blood pressure, heart attack or stroke. The report on research conducted by the Mayo Clinic Arizona group will be presented next week at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session in Chicago.
Significance of the Mayo Clinic Study
This is the first and largest study to measure comprehensive cardiovascular performance measures on retired NFL athletes, ages 35 to 65. Its findings add to the emerging portrait of poor heart health among this group of retired athletes. The findings also suggest that players as young as high school age who are engaged in serious competitive-conference level of training and play may benefit from regular cardiovascular screening. What we hope to emphasize with our findings is that all NFL players -- retired or not -- need to undergo cardiovascular health evaluation because they may have changes in heart and vessel conditions that we can treat so they dont experience problems that may occur later in life, says Robert Hurst, M.D., Mayo Clinic cardiologist and lead researcher.........
Maybe when we were their age, we walked five miles to school, rain or shine. So why don't most children today walk or bike to school?.
It's not necessarily because they're spoiled, lazy or over scheduled. As per a University of Michigan researcher, concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 percent of U.S. children walked or biked to school in 2004, in comparison to more than 50 percent who did so in 1969.
"These concerns are strongly associated with the kind of physical environment children navigate between home and school," said Byoung-Suk Kweon, an environmental and landscape architecture researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR).
"The greener the route, the more likely it is that children will walk and bike".
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) data combined with a survey of 186 parents of 5th through 8th grade students, Kweon observed that parents were most concerned about the speed and volume of traffic students would encounter en route to school; the possibility of crime; and the weather.
"In Texas, where we lived when I conducted this study, our sons did not walk to school because we lived too far away," said Kweon, who is also affiliated with the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment. In general, she found, children who walk to school commonly live less than three-quarters of a mile away.........
Now that it''s officially Spring - even though the weather isn''t quite there yet - it''s time to start replenishing our wardrobes with fun pieces that make us smile. This aptly named "Start 2 Melt" dress by Twinkle is adorable and is definitely a piece your girlfriends will fawn over.
The geometric pattern gives the frock a mod vibe, while the striped accents at the hem and sleeves add a slight nautical flair. We love the dainty bows at the cuffs, the interesting colour palette, and the soft A-line shape. This signature fine-knit Twinkle piece would look great with leggings and ankle booties or a pair of wedge sandals. $279 available at Shopbop.com.
Get the full picture: Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9-11 sermon
You must have seen the video clips of Rev. Jeremiah Wright several times. But it is now time to listen the full sermon and the comments in the right context and decide.
Pastor's rhetoric is just as bitter as U.S. race history
And there it is. ... The 800-pound gorilla that is racial strife finally slings its poo against the political wall. Let me just say this: To me, the comments made by Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are pretty innocuous. I say that knowing that they are offensive to white people, but the question has to be raised — why?
Wright said that Sen. Hillary Clinton does not know what it is like to be a black man in an America run by rich white people. She doesn't. If the bone of contention is that America is not run by rich white people, I will have to humbly but unequivocally disagree and ask you to see the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Omit the entertainers and athletes. Just how many people of color are left?
Detail of a work from Neri Oxman's 'Natural Artifice' exhibit at MoMA.
MIT artists, designers and architects are filling some of New York's most prominent and competitive exhibition spaces this year with works that disrupt traditional distinctions among art, technology and performance.
Right now, four groups of MIT designers have works on exhibit at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. A fifth will exhibit there this summer. The Whitney Biennial, renowned for distilling the best of the global cutting-edge best in art, includes works by two MIT affiliates. The list goes on, with one-person MIT shows in smaller venues.
It all adds up to a new, dramatic presence on the global arts stage for MIT. Long a leader in applying technology to the world's problems, MIT artists and designers are devising new genres, setting new standards for the way video, digital and other technologies foster innovations in the arts.
"Some of the most important things happen at the intersection of art, design and technology, and MIT is where it all comes together," says Adele Naude Santos, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. "Now we're on the world stage, with faculty showing their work in a number of countries. And it's not just art for art's sake. Like everyone else at MIT, our artists and designers are working on the critical social issues of our times."........
Basshunter is a Swedish producer, a cyber geek who wrote a song about an experience with meeting a girl on the internet. The girl was called Anna, and the song ''Boten Anna''.
The song ended up in the hands of a local radio DJ who played it out on air. After its first airing the station was inundated with phone calls to play it again. The whole of Sweden got caught up in the story and when it was released in Scandinavia it became the fastest selling debut single since Abba, and Basshunter their biggest selling debut artist ever!
Peter F. Paul (born September 2, 1948) has been a lawyer, entrepreneur, former partner of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee in Stan Lee Media, and convicted felon. In 2000, he became central to a campaign fund-raising scandal involving Senator Hillary Clinton.
Paul emerged in 2000 as the largest contributor to Senatorial candidate Hillary Clinton. Paul and his attorneys have at various times offered two explanations for this. First, that he was trying to attract her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, to serve on the board of Stan Lee Media after leaving office. Second, that he hoped to negotiate a pardon for his prior criminal convictions.[29][30] Paul produced and underwrote what he described as the largest fund raising event ever held for a federal candidate [31], in Los Angeles, days before the 2000 Democratic Convention began. The Hollywood Farewell Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton featured prominent entertainers singing for the President, while raising over $1 million for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.[32] The event cost $1.9 million to organize as per Paul and $500,000 as per the Federal Election Commission filing, much of it borrowed fraudulently by Paul from Merrill Lynch. Later indictments would state that Merrill Lynch lost about $5 million it had lent to Paul.........
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