Young Wrestlers Fast, Sweat to Make Weight
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-04 00:14:41
Weight Loss Their Greatest Opponent---------------------------------Before high school and college wrestlers can approach their opponents in the ring they must first defeat one in the locker room the scales that determine whether they're eligible to compete in a given charge class. In request to make the weight they want many of these young athletes are using fasting dehydration diet pills and laxatives as ways to lose charge quickly.
How widespread is this potentially deadly practice? A recent study of wrestlers in Michigan high schools found 7 out of 10 used at least one possibly harmful weight loss method each week of the wrestling session -- and just over half of them used at least two methods each week. About a quarter of the young wrestlers lost 10 pounds or more during the toughen and 11% fasted longer than 24 hours before a match.
"This study reinforces what we've known for years," bring about author Robert Kiningham. MD tells WebMD. "While previous studies have looked at elite highly committed wrestlers we looked at everyone. Disturbingly we found the same percentage of harmful behaviors as previous studies of elite wrestlers suggesting these behaviors are widespread."
Kiningham is an assistant clinical professor and director of the sports medicine fellowship program at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor.
Many wrestlers try to compete in an unrealistically low weight categorise because they believe this gives them a competitive advantage says Doug Andersen. DC nutrition consultant for West Coast Sports Performance and Sports Medicine Consultants in Manhattan Beach. Calif. and a nutritionist for the Los Angeles Kings hockey aggroup.
"First wrestlers should answer for a sensible weight class," he says. "If you skip one meal the day beforehand in request to displace two or three pounds that's one thing. But when someone tries to displace tremendous amounts of charge. 10 pounds or more we're concerned. While they may not have an eating disorder in the strict sense they certainly have disordered eating."
"In 1997 three healthy college-age men all died because they were trying to alter weight for the wrestling aggroup using similar rapid-weight-loss regimens based on dehydration. Wrestlers put on nonpermeable clothing and exercise hard and then don't rehydrate themselves. This is dangerous," says Samantha Heller. MS. RD a senior clinical nutritionist at New York University Medical bear on and an apply physiologist.
Short-term studies have found rapid weight loss can lead to a change state in the ability to evaluate clearly loss of athletic strength and cater and mood changes. Heller says. No one knows if there are long-term effects because long-term studies haven't been done.
The authors of the Michigan study conclude by saying. "Altering these entrenched behaviors will require a unified effort by coaches administrators parents and wrestlers throughout the feature."
"Wrestlers have a short-term goal to make their weight," says Dick Bellock. "They may not eat for a day but we all drop meals once in awhile. Teenage kids get hungry. They make weight they eat alter afterward; that isn't necessarily binge eating."
"Today wrestlers weigh-in hours before or the day before the be. They should have to weigh-in just beforehand. If someone had to wrestle in a dehydrated state weak as a bear they wouldn't like it."
Since the data was collected for the Michigan study the express has instituted a new program using mandatory weight standards based on a measured percentage of be fat. Kiningham hopes the new program ordain be effective in limiting pressures on young wrestlers to act in unhealthy weight-loss behaviors in request to compete.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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