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Read More..Track authorities move to again bar women with naturally high testosterone from competing – STAT
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his week track and field athletes from all over the world are gathering to compete in the World Championships, an event second only to the Olympics in its level of prestige. Two of the competitors, South African Caster Semenya and Indian Dutee Chand, will represent their countries while on a quest for gold and glory that started last summer in Rio. But their future careers, and those of other women like them, are again in question as the sports governing body attempts to reinstate a limit on female athletes testosterone levels.
The limit dates back to 2011, when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), which oversees track and field events, first created the rule. Naturally produced high testosterone, the group ruled, provided female athletes with an unfair advantage akin to doping and so, to compete, a woman over the limit would have to lower her testosterone, through medication or surgery, or prove that she was not sensitive to its effects.
That rule was put on pause after a challenge was brought in 2015. The arbitrators gave the IAAF a two-year window to provide evidence as to why the rule should persist, or else it would be permanently struck down.
Now, just as the races begin in London, the track authorities have taken their starting positions for a renewed legal fight, filing new evidence with the court that they say supports a testosterone limit and setting up a complicated battle about sex, physiology, and ethics destined to play out on the largest stage in sports.
The case in consideration by the Court of Arbitration for Sport centers on Chand. The 21-year-old runner was a rising 100-meter star in India in 2014, when the Indian affiliate of the IAAF barred her from competing. Blood tests showed that her testosterone was above the 10 nanomoles per liter limit, the level deemed to be the lower end of the male range.
In 2015, she appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport an international high court that settles sports-related disputes. The court heard from various ethical and scientific experts. Ultimately, its ruling hinged on whether female athletes with high testosterone a condition called hyperandrogenism experience a boost in performance equivalent to the average athletic performance gap between men and women. It quantified that gap as a 10-12 percent difference.
On July 27, 2015, citing a lack of evidence for that magnitude of performance boost, the court temporarily suspended the policy. However, the arbitrators gave the IAAF two years to submit more evidence to support their claim.
In recent months the IAAF has done just that, according to a recent press release and an expert witness who testified in 2015. Now, both sides will have an opportunity to respond to evidence in a back-and-forth that could drag on for months, and will culminate in the court deciding whether or not to strike down the policy once and for all.
The problematic mapping of gender onto biology is a story as old as sports: Ever since women have been able to participate, athletic organizations such as the IAAF and the International Olympic Committee have struggled with how to define the female category, and how to decide who is eligible to compete in it. Over the years, these organizations have deployed policies requiring female athletes to undergo everything from genital examinations to chromosome testing to prove their eligibility to compete as women, and even mandated that women who failed the tests undergo medical or surgical treatments to regain their eligibility, raising serious ethical questions in the process. And while such widespread sex-testing was officially abandoned in the 1990s, elite female athletes continued to be flagged, often based on physical appearance, and subjected to physical examinations and other medical tests to confirm their eligibility.
The reason for a testosterone policy in the first place centers on the relationship between testosterone and biological sex. Testosterone is a key hormone for the development of male reproductive organs, and also promotes increased muscle and bone mass and the growth of body hair, among other things. Consequently, most testosterone is produced in the testes, and men tend to have a lot of it, generally between 10 and 40 nm/L. But women have testosterone too, typically in the 0.5 to 2 nm/L range, produced by the ovaries and adrenal gland. Testosterone over 2 nm/L is often considered hyperandrogenism, though there is no hard and fast cutoff.
According to Dr. David Cohen, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center not involved in the case, not all hyperandrogenism is created equal. The most common hyperandrogenism is called polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), in which the ovaries produce excess testosterone, and which is unlikely to increase testosterone above the 10 nm/L level. Rather, Cohen said, women above the cutoff who arent doping likely have one of two things going on: a tumor in the ovaries or adrenal gland, or whats called a disorder of sexual differentiation a genetic anomaly. One such anomaly, for instance, is 5 alpha reductase deficiency, a rare genetic condition in which a woman can have XY chromosomes and internal male gonads that produce excess testosterone. Disorders of sexual differentiation, previously known as intersex conditions, highlight the inherent messiness of trying to strictly define biological male and female: Scientifically speaking, not everyone fits neatly into one sex category or the other.
Under the testosterone policy, female athletes over the limit had to lower their testosterone levels to compete, which can generally be accomplished with medication or surgery, depending on the source of the hormone. Semenya continued competing, though the details of if and how she lowered her testosterone are not known. Neither she nor Chand has publicly discussed the cause of her hyperandrogenism.
One of the strongest new pieces of evidence that the IAAF has in its arsenal is a study published just last month. In early July, two IAAF scientists published a paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine that looked at the testosterone levels in roughly 2,000 elite male and female track athletes who competed in the 2011 and 2013 IAAF World Championships.
The researchers, funded by the IAAF and the World Anti-Doping Agency, divided male and female athletes into low, medium, and high testosterone groups based on results from routine pre-meet blood tests, and compared their athletic performance.
Their main conclusion, touted in an IAAF press release, was that women in the high testosterone group had a significant competitive advantage over women in the low group in a smattering of events, namely the 400 meter, 400-meter hurdles, 800 meter, hammer throw, and pole vault. The advantage ranged from 1.8 to 4.5 percent.
That, the IAAF says, is evidence in support of its assertion that women with high testosterone see a boost in performance. And although 4.5 percent falls well below the 10-12 percent range that the court established, Dr. Angelica Hirschberg, a professor and gynecologist at Karolinska University Hospital who testified for the IAAF in 2015, points out that for elite athletes, even 3 to 4 percent is a big difference that can decide if you will get a medal or not. Additionally, the highest testosterone group of women in the study averaged below the 10 nm/L cutoff, so she said an even higher testosterone level could translate into more of an advantage. We can only speculate that probably if you have a larger group of women with testosterone in the male range, the difference in physical performance would be greater, Hirschberg said.
Cohen, however, sees some problems with the methodology of the study. Perhaps most notably, the study states that some women in the high testosterone group artificially achieved those high levels by doping which he said muddles the findings. What they injected may be a more powerful testosterone or may be a weaker testosterone, or they may have done it yesterday or last week or last month, he said. You cant interpret these numbers as the function of endogenous hormone levels when there are exogenous hormone levels included.
He also explained that a womans testosterone level fluctuates considerably during her menstrual cycle, something the study did not control for. And the paper also double-counted 17.3 percent of the women who competed in both 2011 to 2013, which, according to Cohen, is going to skew the data an incredible amount.
For Cohen, the paper can only suggest an association between hormone levels and physical performance at a single snapshot in time. It doesnt tell me anything about what was going on a week ago, a month ago, a year ago, during training, he said. It doesnt tell me anything about whether its endogenous or exogenous, and it doesnt tell me cause and effect.
Hirschberg has also done research since the testosterone limit was suspended. Her paper, published in late June 2017 and also submitted as evidence for the 2017 hearing, looked at the precursors of testosterone in 106 Swedish women Olympic athletes. It found that, compared to non-athletes, the athletes had higher levels of these testosterone precursors, and also had more muscle mass and better explosive athletic performance.
However, like the IAAF paper, that study can only establish an association between hormone levels and athletic performance, and it cannot determine whether increased hormone levels directly caused this improved performance.
These papers are certainly not the only evidence IAAF has gathered (Hirschberg said other submissions will include individual cases of athletes with testosterone levels over the cutoff), but for Cohen, they are not convincing.
If the goal is to prove that women with endogenous androgen levels have a higher degree of physical performance when compared with women of lower endogenous androgen levels, I dont think these studies prove that, and they definitely dont prove causation, he said. And I definitely dont think they prove that theres an unfair advantage between women.
While the court is choosing to focus on the science, it is impossible to ignore the ethical arguments from both sides, particularly when it comes to defining what is fair.
Much of the IAAF argument hinges on the idea that a policy is needed to make competitions fair for other female athletes, and without it, female sports will decline.
Hirschberg pointed out that several female athletes testified for the IAAF in 2015 (while others have been vocal in the media) and IAAFs goal is to level the playing field for all women so they stay motivated to compete. You can speculate about what will happen with female sport if we dont have any regulation about this, she said. If we can beforehand guess who will win, then perhaps the audience will lose interest. She added that even one or two high-testosterone women in each event could have an effect.
However, Dr. Katrina Karkazis, a medical anthropologist and bioethicist at Stanford University who testified for Chands side in 2015, disagreed. We havent had a regulation for two years and womens sports look just fine to me, she said. Weve got women breaking womens records. I dont think anything blew up in any crazy way. And while Semenya has excelled on the world stage since the policy was suspended, winning 800-meter gold in the 2016 Olympics, Chand has been far from dominant: She goes into the World Championships ranked 103rd in the world in the 100 meter.
Which brings up another question of fairness: is it fair to create a policy that singles out testosterone when so many other factors contribute to overall athletic performance? Hirschberg says yes. Its not all about testosterone, of course not, Hirschberg said. But since we have today two main categories, we have female sport and we have male sport, we have to have regulations about who can compete as a woman and who can compete as a man. Hirschberg and the IAAF believe testosterone is the main factor driving the performance difference between men and women, and should thus be the basis of the policy.
Georgiann Davis, a medical sociologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who published a 2012 critique of the policy, doesnt buy into this logic. She pointed out that elite athletes have many kinds of extreme physiologies that contribute to their success, and, moreover, athletes in countries like the U.S. have access to top-notch training facilities that dont exist in other places. I understand the desire to create fairness for sports, she said, But at what point do you start saying, wait a second, this is starting to get a little ridiculous? Cohen put it even more simply: You cant say, oh, were not going to allow sumo wrestlers over 300 pounds, or were not going to allow basketball players to be over 66.
Then there is the question of whether it is fair for the policy to only target women. The IAAF argues that there is a scientific basis, namely scientific evidence that indicates women, but not men, with high testosterone levels have a significant performance advantage over their peers. Others, however, believe a policy that targets only female athletes is inherently sexist. I think that the only way it would be fair to regulate athletes [like] Caster and Dutee would be if we also had testosterone testing for men, and men that were in atypically high ranges had to take estrogen to lower their ranges down as well, said Hida Viloria, chairperson of the Organization Intersex International, an intersex advocacy and support group that has supported these athletes since 2010.
Moreover, as much as the IAAF asserts that the policy focuses on testosterone, not sex, Viloria pointed out that it still questions a womans eligibility to compete as a woman, hearkening back to the days of widespread sex testing for female athletes. I think the elephant in the room is that even though on record these sporting bodies keep acknowledging that these athletes are women, they keep trying to make regulations based on the conception that theyre not, s/he said.
Dr. Adrian Dobs, an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic not involved in the case, can see both sides. If this is biological, if this is what they have, then it may be an advantage, but so are a lot of things an advantage. Good for them, so to speak, she said. But if these women really have a medical problem that they want to ignore because it gives them an advantage on the playing field, then in many ways they should be treated. Conditions that cause hyperandrogenism have been associated with health issues such as infertility, cardiovascular disease, and insulin resistance.
And finally, perhaps the most fundamental question of all: Even if female athletes with hyperandrogenism do have a unique and significant performance advantage, is it automatically unfair? At the end of the day, Karkazis believes that question is a social and cultural one. It really is an open question about whether or not something is fair or unfair, leaving aside the science of it, she said. The science could still say theres a link between [testosterone] and performance and we could still say, and thats fine, it shouldnt be understood as unfair.
The ethics of the situation are complicated to say the least, and while the court wont officially consider ethical arguments as it begins the arduous process of sifting through new evidence, its hard to believe ethics wont come into play especially with the futures of several elite female runners hanging in the balance.
But for this year at least, as athletes take to the track, women will compete as women, men will compete as men, and testosterone will be left on the sidelines.
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Doctors Address Low Testosterone Ads – CBS St. Louis
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) Theres a lot of ads out there about low testosterone, prompting local experts to share some advice.
Barnes-Jewish West County Urologist Dr. Christopher Arett at Washington University School of Medicine says theres no real definition of what constitutes low testosterone.
Testosterone typically, for the average population, is around 300 or higher, so 300 to 500 is often given as a normal range, he says. However, if youre below that level, it doesnt mean that you are going to have symptoms, and if youre above that normal, you may still have symptoms of low testosterone [if] at some point in life you had higher testosterone.
What are the symptoms of Low T?
What people may notice is decrease in energy level, decrease in sex drive, over the long-term low testosterone can decrease muscle mass, bone density, and increase truncal obesity, or beer belly, says Washington University urologist Dr. Dane Johnson.
Arett says men have to be tested for Low T no later than 10 a.m., because testosterone production is at its highest when men are asleep. Testosterone levels peak in the early morning, and as the day progresses, testosterone in every person decreases.
When your testosterone is taken during the day completely changes what their value will be, he says.
Arett says it is critical to have a good doctor-patient relationship when talking about whether or not you have low testosterone, because the symptoms are not specific and could be caused by other underlying health conditions.
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Aerial Yoga: The Anti-Gravity Fitness Craze Taking Over North Texas – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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It's the celebrity workout that has models like Ashley Graham and Chrissy Teigen flying high. We're talking aerial yoga an anti-gravity fitness craze that's now taking over North Texas.
Aerial yoga is essentially traditional yoga, but suspended in mid-air in a silk hammock.
"Elevating the yoga poses helps to deepen stretches and decompress your spine when hanging upside down," said Jessica Harris, owner of Moxie Mischief Aerial Arts in Dallas. "It's something different. You don't even think you're working out until the next day when you're feeling sore."
And count on feeling sore because aerial yoga is a full-body workout as well as a full-body stretch. Harris says you'll feel muscles you never knew you had.
Whether you're six years old or 60 years old, Harris says aerial yoga is a fun activity the whole family can enjoy, even if you have zero experience.
"Some people come in with a great tolerance for being upside down. Some people have to build it a little. It is something that you progress pretty quickly," she said.
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HPAC votes down part of Life Time Fitness application – The Advocate
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Frontier's Stamford offices in High Ridge Park on Thursday, December 18, 2014.
Frontier's Stamford offices in High Ridge Park on Thursday, December 18, 2014.
HPAC votes down part of Life Time Fitness application
STAMFORD The citys Historic Preservation Advisory Commission shot down a request to rezone the High Ridge Office Park as preservationists look for a way to save the historically significant campus.
The zoning text change request, which would add a health club use to the citys office-park zones, would allow for the property owner at High Ridge Office Park to replace one of its buildings left empty after Frontier Communications relocated its headquarters to Norwalk with a Life Time Fitness, a high-end health club chain.
While the property owner, George Comfort & Sons, is not yet requesting to tear down the vacant building, the text change request before HPAC last week is the precursor to seeking demolition permission, William Hennessy of law firm Carmody, Torrance, Sandak & Hennessey told the commission last week.
In a letter dated Aug. 3 to the citys Land Use Bureau, HPAC chairwoman Lynn Drobbin said the commission unanimously opposed the change, which will be considered by the Planning Board Tuesday, because it may open the door to demolition of this important building.
It may also advance demolition options for the other important buildings in this office complex, as well as similar C-D districts in the community, she wrote.
HPACs land use function is purely advisory. Its decisions are sent to the Land Use Bureau for consideration by the Planning Board and Zoning Board.
The High Ridge Office Park was designed by famed architect Victor Hanna Bisharat, designer of the Landmark Square building in downtown Stamford.
The former Frontier building that could come up for demolition was built sometime between 1967 and 1975.
The State Historic Preservation Office weighed in on the office parks historic significance last month, naming the property as a possible candidate for the National Register of Historic Places.
HPAC would like to note that this building, which is eligible for National Register listing, would qualify for State and/or federal tax credits, Drobbin wrote in her letter to the Land Use Bureau. The commission also recognizes that there may be other options for the owners and encourage renovations and compatible uses that may preserve this building.
While HPAC was laser-focused on saving the Bisharat building, and less concerned with the overall impact of a zoning text change, the application is expected to meet more scrutiny by the Planning Board.
The request is presented as an adaptive re-use under the Mixed Use Campus section of the citys master plan. The Master Plan, a guideline for development in the city, recommends adding new uses to office park districts north of downtown as property owners struggle to rent or sell office space.
Hennessy, the attorney, told HPAC that the property owner has struggled to lease the space since Frontier left, and it has sat mostly empty for about two years. He said the building would require extensive renovations and repairs to make it competitive in the current commercial-office market.
A recent text-change application under the same re-use category that asked to add residential uses to these office parks was shot down by the Planning Board in June.
The application is on the Planning Board agenda for Tuesday. The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria on the fourth floor of the Government Center.
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Faf du Plessis critical of Vernon Philander’s overall fitness and absence – The Guardian
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Faf du Plessis delivered a withering assessment of Vernon Philanders overall fitness following South Africas series defeat in England and told the wider public it is time to move on from the prospect of AB de Villiers ever returning to Test cricket.
Speaking after the 3-1 loss, the Proteas captain was simply asked about the frustration of the back spasms suffered by Philander that ruled him out a final Test that could have levelled the series and opted to make a point about his conditioning.
Vern needs to work on his fitness. Its happened too often he doesnt play a full series and I have spoken to him about that and hes accepted the challenge that he needs to improve, said Du Plessis, who was denied a senior bowler he described as the worlds best in seaming conditions, having dominated Englands top order with 10 wickets in the first three Tests.
In the last of those, a 239-run defeat at The Oval, Philander struggled throughout after suffering from a stomach virus that had him spend one night in hospital on a drip. Nevetheless Du Plessis expected the 32-year-old to be ready for Old Trafford once clear of this illness only for a niggle the captain considered minor to crop up.
Graeme Smith, South Africas former captain, was first to query this early in the 177-run defeat that followed and, when asked if it was justified, Du Plessis replied: Its fair that you need to play a lot of cricket for your country and be available for selection. I think Vern will agree with that.
Too many times the team has gasped Vern could be injured again. So he understands from a fitness point of view with important series coming up, Australia and India at home, he needs to be fit to get through all eight Tests.
In Morne Morkel and Keshav Maharaj South Africa had two bowlers who stepped up across the duration of the tours Test leg, claiming 19 and 17 wickets respectively (the former was named their player of the series by England). But a glass-jawed top six that returned only one century from Dean Elgar and a single batsman averaging over 40 in Hashim Amla, was culpable.
The continuing absence of De Villiers was felt. Unquestionably one of the greatest batsmen South Africa has produced, the 33-year-old remains the limited overs captain and a Twenty20 freelancer but is currently taking an indefinite sabbatical from playing the Test arena that has now run 18 months and appears only a statement away from official retirement.
Talks between De Villiers and Cricket South Africa about his future are due to come soon, offering a glimmer of hope that he may be coaxed into the challenge of two upcoming marquee home summer series against India and Australia. But Du Plessis, among his closest friends from schoolboy to professional cricket, is doubtful.
He added: We all know how good AB is and we missed him but weve spent too much time talking about, When is AB going to come back?
The hope of him coming back is something I think we need to move past ... and we need to find someone else who can fulfil those roles. Obviously you dont just replace those players. If AB comes back, its a huge bonus. But I dont expect it.
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Town Crier – IOP Rec. Center proposes additional fitness room – Moultrie News
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A proposed addition to the Isle of Palms Recreation Center will make its way to full town council next month. If approved the recreation department building will feature a new state-of-the-art workout facility.
The designer for this project is a southeast architectural firm known as LS3P, located in Charleston, who specialize in interiors, planning, and historic preservation services to a wide variety of clients nationwide.
The proposed fitness room specifies a 2,443 square foot addition at an initial estimate of $200 per square foot. The design includes a mirror wall, stretching area, bench, cubbies and new machinery according to the LS3P conceptual plan.
"All we have right now is cardio equipment, what I recommend putting in a fitness room is resistance equipment, for the upper body, lower body, legs, pecks, abs, etc." said Isle of Palms Recreation Director Norma Jean Page
The size of the addition is based on an occupancy of less than 50 people and therefore only one exit is required. Along with a double glass door with glazing for easy monitoring and movement of equipment. However, a full code analysis has not yet been completed and still needs to verify that the existing egress width and plumbing fixture count are compliant with the additional occupant load, according to LS3P principal and public sector leader David Burt.
The totality of the project's expenditures will cost approximately $700,000, including the $100,000 of commercial grade fitness equipment from Carolina Specialty Fitness and an estimated annual additional utility cost of $6,422, according to city treasurer Debbie Sugg's financial analytics.
"I know that island people don't like to leave the island and we have quite a few folks that are members at O2 Fitness and other fitness centers and I think this would be a good alternative and they would join this as opposed to going across the bridge," Page said.
Important to note that all trees in the vicinity will be preserved and no such removal will be necessary for the project's building plan, according to City Council.
City Council will hear first reading of the proposal after Labor Day weekend on Wednesday Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. located at 1207 Palm Blvd. Isle of Palms, SC.
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RICHMOND, Virginia -- Washington Redskins tackle Trent Williams does not sit in the cafeteria and gaze at teammates trays or get wistful as he smells whats being cooked. When Williams sits down to another vegan meal, hes not fighting an urge to push his plate aside and dive into one that includes meat.
He's happy with what's on his plate.
Temptation is something that comes along when youre doing something you dont want to do, Williams said. Its a choice. Theres no temptation. No one is policing me saying I can or cant eat meat. It was a decision on my part.
One that hell keep doing. Williams touts the Redskins offensive line as Hogs 2.0, but Hogs 1.0 were full of beer-drinking, meat-eating players. Williams, though, keeps looking for an edge, and this offseason that included altering what he eats. Theres a family history of diabetes, but theres also a desire by the five-time Pro Bowler to play a long time and find any way to maintain an advantage. There has been no drop-off in his performance during camp.
How much longer he continues eating vegan remains uncertain. Williams month doing so ended Sunday, and hes debating if he should stick to it or, per the advice of his nutritionist, add fish a few times a week.
Ill never go back to eating like I used to, Williams said.
Williams started on this path in part because of a documentary called What the Health. But, he said, he was already contemplating a change. When he decided to do it, he went (pun intended) cold turkey.
I set a date that I wanted to do it, and before that day leading up to it, I binged on everything I thought I would miss, Williams said. Barbecue, Mexican food, a good steak. All the stuff I had eaten a lot.
Heres a look at Williams typical meals now, compared with the past:
Breakfast: A smoothie, with fruit and kale. Williams adds a vegan protein supplement given to him by a nutritionist. Hell usually have two smoothies, totaling between 20 and 24 ounces. That suffices until lunch. In the past, Williams ate what he called a typical breakfast: a big omelet, maybe a waffle.
Lunch: Lately, he has been eating pasta with mushrooms or spinach and sometimes tofu. If he wants something with more substance, hell add french fries. Something that sticks to my stomach a little longer, he said. That holds him through the 3 p.m. practice. Before, Williams was like most of his teammates at lunch, eating a variety of food -- but always something with meat.
Dinner: Lately, he has had a lot of stir-fry vegetables or various forms of pasta, topped with vegetables. He goes heavy on the carbs to maintain energy and to help stay hydrated. But his favorite meal so far: a portobello mushroom burger. That was pretty good. Actually, it was real good, Williams said. It had a lot of flavor. After meetings, hell down another smoothie, around 20 ounces. Dinner before his new diet? Meat.
[Before], sometimes Id eat lunch and feel it in my stomach for hours, Williams said. Sometimes, Id feel sluggish. Sometimes I wouldnt eat breakfast before 1 p.m. games because I knew it would make me sluggish. Now I eat breakfast and my body burns it the right way.
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Williams consulted with Redskins nutritionist Jake Sankal. Teammate Jordan Reed tried a vegan diet in the offseason but stopped because he felt he was losing too much weight. That was an issue for Williams early on as well. He played last season at 323 pounds, but he dipped below 310 after going vegan.
To be honest, I was scared to get on a scale, Williams said. I didnt want to scare myself out of it.
But he said he now weighs right around 320.
Hes in a good spot weight-wise, as good a weight as hes ever had around here, said Redskins coach Jay Gruden, who has lost 22 pounds on his own altered regimen of improved diet and exercise. We will see how it goes, but hes in contact with Jake.
The hardest food to give up, Williams said, was cheese and dairy in general. It has forced him to closely scan ingredient lists, and its why he now eats kettle chips as a snack rather than Cheetos or Doritos.
He did indulge one time, celebrating his 29th birthday on July 19 with a burger.
I tried to treat myself, but it ended up hurting, Williams said. It tasted good going down but sat in my stomach all night. During my workout [the next day], I could feel it the whole time. It took longer to digest than it used to.
Teammates pepper him with questions, wondering if they should try it, as well, including safeties D.J. Swearinger, Will Blackmon and DeAngelo Hall, who is looking for any help in recovering from last seasons torn ACL. Guards Arie Kouandjio and Isaiah Williams joined Williams over the last month.
You feel an overall difference with your energy, Williams said. I just feel better. ... If it keeps me healthier, why not?
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Reuters Health - Eating foods high in fiber, such as those found in a Mediterranean diet, was tied to a lower risk of gallbladder surgery in a recent French study.
Compared to people who didnt follow a Mediterranean diet pattern, those who adhered to it most closely had a significantly lower likelihood of needing a cholecystectomy, which is the medical term for an operation to remove the gallbladder, say the authors.
We found that higher intakes of legumes, fruit, vegetable oil, and (whole grain) bread were associated with decreased cholecystectomy risk, and a higher intake of ham was associated with higher risk of cholecystectomy, wrote the authors in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
About 700,000 cholecystectomies are performed every year in the United States, according to the American College of Surgeons. Most are the result of blockage due to gallstones.
Gallstones are very common, but most of them are asymptomatic, meaning people have no symptoms. If you don't have any symptoms from your gallstones, there's no reason to have your gallbladder removed, said Dr. James Lewis, a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who was not part of the study.
The vast majority of people with gallstones never have problems from them, Lewis said in a phone interview.
When they do cause problems, then having your gallbladder removed is completely appropriate, he said.
The new study, led by Dr. Amelie Barre at the University of Paris Sud in Orsay, used information on nearly 64,000 women who were born between 1925 and 1950 and covered by a national insurance plan. Every two years, they answered questions about their health status, medical history, and lifestyle.
Over the course of 18 years, 2,778 of the women had their gallbladder removed.
Women who ate the most legumes, fruits, vegetable oil, and whole grain bread were anywhere from 13 to 27 percent less likely to have gallbladder surgery than were women who ate the least of those foods.
A western dietary pattern - including high consumption of processed meat, canned fish, eggs, rice, pasta, appetizers, pizza, potatoes, cakes, and alcohol - was not linked with either a higher or lower risk for the surgery. There was, however, an association of ham intake with cholecystectomy risk.
But when researchers assigned a Mediterranean diet score to all participants, they found that women with the highest scores were 11 percent less likely to have the surgery compared to women with the lowest scores.
This type of observational study cant prove that a Mediterranean diet was the reason for womens lower risk of gallbladder surgery, or that ham intake caused a higher risk. Furthermore, dietary intakes were self-reported at just one point in time. The reports may not have been accurate, and womens diets may have changed over time.
Still, Lewis said, the Mediterranean-style diet has consistently been shown to be associated with living longer.
If people really want to think about what they should be eating in order to increase their longevity, it's very easy for me to recommend to them that they should try and follow a Mediterranean-style diet, he said.
In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently advised Americans to follow a diet that is very similar to a Mediterranean-style diet, Lewis noted. (bit.ly/2vHSL8h)
This is just one of many reasons that we should be following that style diet. If you look at the published literature on dietary patterns, what you'll see is that Mediterranean-style diet has been associated with a reduced overall mortality but also reduced cardiovascular mortality (and) reduced risks of cancer, he said.
SOURCE: go.nature.com/2wpsVSL The American Journal of Gastroenterology, online July 25, 2017.
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Leigh-Allyn Baker on Why a Gluten-Free Diet Has Been Crucial for Her Sons: ‘Heal the Gut, Heal the Brain’ – PEOPLE.com
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Will & Gracealum andGood Luck Charliestar Leigh-Allyn Baker opens up about motherhood and her sons daily battle with dyspraxia in an exclusive five-partPEOPLEseries. (Read part 1here, part 2here, part 3hereand part 4 here.)
You wont find any gluten in Leigh-Allyn Bakers home but dont call it a junk-free space.
They dont eat chemical junk, but they still get to eat junk they just eat natural junk, Baker tells PEOPLE of her and husband Keith Kauffmans two sons:Baker James, 4, and Griffin Samuel, 8.
When theres a birthday party, my kids get a cake, they just get one without gluten, soy and dairy, and without artificial colors, she adds.
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Baker whose older son Griffinhas thedevelopmental disorder dyspraxia says that her familys gluten-, dairy-, soy- and artificial-color-free diet has been really important to keeping her kids healthy.
Scientists know, doctors know: Heal the gut, heal the brain, says theGood Luck Charlieactress. And so I want to create the best atmosphere possible for neurons to fire in his brain. So, to do that, I heal his gut.
The star says that the diet has had positive results with Griffin and Baker, explaining, Its been evident in the blood work.
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Additionally, little Baker whom the actress previously revealed suffers from speech issues has celiac disease. In fact, when she removed gluten from her younger childs diet, his nearly year-long struggle to speak ended.
Thats how important it is to the brain, Baker says. They do not eat any artificial dyes or food coloring. We happen to be very reactive to that. A rash will appear all over our body. Its not just hyperactivity or bad behavior or memory loss thats incurred on the body.
Baker is opening up more about how dyspraxia has affected her family in a Thursday Facebook Live chat with Dyspraxia Foundation USA, starting at 7:30 p.m. EST.
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