Healthy
Lifestyles
Substance Abuse
Nutritional Supplements
Disordered Eating |
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| Substance Abuse |
| Coaches, athletic
administrators and parents need to educate student athletes about the health risks
involved with the use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. In addition, effective and
appropriate policies that target the prevention and reduction of substance use among
student athletes should be designed and implemented. The following are links to
resources that may be helpful in your campaign against substance abuse.
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| Nutritional Supplements |
| The increased
availability of these products on the Internet, by mail order, or from nutritional
supplement retailers, allows student athletes access to a wide variety of supplements that
are highly marketed in fitness and strength training magazines with promises, endorsed by
faulty research claims, of extraordinary weight loss, explosive power, or tremendous
strength gains. As a coach, athletic administrator, or parent it is important to be aware
of and educate oneself about what substances your student athletes may be using and about
the potential risks involved with uneducated supplement use.
Nutritional supplements are not the only thing readily
available for athletes looking to improve performance. Illicit drugs are
also used with the goal of aiding performance.
Other links:
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| Disordered Eating |
FACTS:
- More than 5 million Americans experience eating disorders.
- 10 to15 percent of those diagnosed with bulimia are men.
- 15 percent of young women have disordered eating behaviors or attitudes.
- Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder affect the mind
and body simultaneously.
- 86 percent report onset of illness before the age of 20.
- Eating disorders are significantly higher (15 to 62 percent) in the athletic
population than the general population.
Coaches, administrators, parents, and
officials must know the signs and symptoms of disordered eating. Disordered eating ranges from mild and/or
occasional abnormal eating behaviors to the severe conditions of anorexia and bulimia.
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Sports
Medicine
Comparing IV vs. Oral Rehydration Techniques
Heat-Illness Information
and Resource
Fueling Your Athletes For
Competition
Reducing Brain and Spinal Injuries
Communicable Diseases
OHSAA Statement Regarding
Medical Hardware |
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| Heat-Illness Information and Resources |
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summer programs begin and pre-season approaches, coaches, parents, and athletes should be
reminded to stay properly hydrated. This means drinking when you may not feel
thirsty and avoiding carbonated or sugar-laden beverages!
Heat illnesses can be life threatening. Be aware and be prepared. Be familiar with the “Heat Illnesses: Signs,
Symptoms, & What to Do” chart and be sure to follow the advice of your athletic
trainers and team physicians about exercising in the heat and humidity.
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| Fueling Your Athletes to Compete |
| Proper nutrition and
hydration are essential to getting the most out of your athletes. You want to teach them
to eat and drink the right way, but where do you start? The American Dietetic Association
and Gatorade have teamed up to create the Performance
Challenge - a new tool that Sports Nutritionists can bring to your team and teach them
about good nutrition and hydration in a fun, fast-moving way.
Getting a
Nutritionist to your school is only a few clicks away…
- Visit www.performancechallenge.com
- Type your zip code into the Nutritionist Locator to find someone in your area
- Select a Nutritionist from the profiles presented to you
- Wait for the Nutritionist to contact you and set up a presentation
The Performance
Challenge is an interactive presentation containing questions on food, performance,
hydration and safety. Athletes are split into
teams and compete to correctly answer general and sport-specific questions on a variety of
topics.
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Contact performancechallenge@fleishman.com. |
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| Brain and Spinal Injuries |
| It is important to
take the necessary precautions to reduce the likelihood of brain and spinal injuries in
football and other sports.
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| Communicable Diseases |
| While the risk of
contracting many communicable diseases maybe minimal to non existant (ex: HIV/AIDS) others
are more prevalent (ex: staph infections) in athletic competition, it is important to take
the necessary precautions to reduce transmission potential.
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| Statement on Medical Hardware |
| On the advice of the
National Federation of State High School Association’s (NFHS) Sports Medicine
Advisory Committee (see www.nfhs.org), the following
guidelines are provided. Unless
the specific rules code stipulates otherwise, athletes in sports of a collision/contact
nature should not be permitted to wear devices such as insulin pumps, heart monitoring
equipment and/or other diagnostic or therapeutic appliances while participating in
interscholastic contests. In its
deliberations on this issue, the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee of the NFHS could find
no medical reason to authorize the wearing of these appliances during competition.
However, in the event that a physician requires a
student-athlete to wear a therapeutic device during competition, such medical necessity
shall be specified in writing and signed by the prescribing physician, and the device
shall be padded and securely attached to the player’s body underneath the uniform. The medical statement shall be shown to the head
contest official prior to the athlete’s being permitted to participate. |
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