Research Paper Title Case Proven: Exercise Associated Hyponatraemia is Due to Overdrinking. So Why Did it Take 20 Years Before the Original Evidence was Accepted? Conclusions “History is replete with examples of correct ideas that were not accepted until subsequent generations confirmed their validity. Usually there is a logical reason for this delayed acceptance; often… Read More
Cross Training: The Sports Advantage
Research Paper Title Pre-induction Sport Activity in Prevention of Stress Fractures in Elite Infantry Recruits. Abstract Pre-induction sports participation of 392 elite infantry recruits was evaluated for correlation with incidence of stress fractures (SF) during 14 weeks of basic training. 23.7% developed lower extremity stress fractures. 72% of the recruits had participated in sports on… Read More
New Partners Announced: Ms Dietary Pattern & Mr Gene Expression
Research Paper Title Associations between Dietary Patterns and Gene Expression Profiles of Healthy Men and Women: A Cross-sectional Study. Background Diet regulates gene expression profiles by several mechanisms. The objective of this study was to examine gene expression in relation with dietary patterns. Methods Two hundred and fifty four participants from the greater Quebec City… Read More
To Be Redundant Or Not To Be Redundant: That Is The Question!
Jobcentre Plus workers had right to redundancy pay, finds tribunal Two former Jobcentre Plus (JCP) workers who were told to join the dole queue after extensions to their fixed term contracts were not honoured are celebrating a landmark legal victory which could have wider repercussions for hundreds more who were dismissed in similar circumstances. A… Read More
Promotion: The Beautiful Nutritional Game
Research Paper Title Food, Fizzy, and Football: Promoting Unhealthy Food and Beverages through Sport – A New Zealand Case Study. Background High participation rates in sport and increasing recognition of how diet benefits athletic performance suggest sports settings may be ideal locations for promoting healthy eating. While research has demonstrated the effect of tobacco and… Read More
Conformity, Ethics & Recruit Training
“[…]within the ethical decisionmaking framework described by MCU, how does our institutional culture, specifically recruit training, diminish the capacity of a Marine to act ethically? […]I believe that the dehumanization and tearing down of a recruit by the methods we currently employ in recruit training is the first step in contributing to a mental attitude… Read More
New: Effort-based Training
A new section of the blog ‘Effort-based Training’ can be found under the main page heading of ‘Run!’
