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...like bagels of all shapes and sizes,” said Geoff LeBus ‘06, who eats bagels regularly as part of his football weight-gain regimen and was somewhat indifferent to the provider switch...
...National??League's??best??hitter, left fielder Barry Bonds, is an exceptional athlete with a legendary training regimen, strict diet and unequaled discipline at bat. Steroids may pump you up, but they won't help you bat .362 or hit homers more often than you strike out. Commentators who try to credit steroids for Bonds' success are doing a disservice to America's youth by implying that drugs--not talent, hard work and discipline--are what make athletes great...
...proponent of jogging as a training technique; of an apparent heart attack while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then revolutionary concept--that long, slow distance training worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running--the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to coach New Zealand's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid his own way to Rome, trained his runners outside the official grounds and brought home...
...inventor of jogging; of an apparent heart attack, while on a U.S. speaking tour; in Houston. Before the frequent marathon winner came up with his then-revolutionary concept-that long, slow, distance training, or "LSD," worked best to develop stamina for all kinds of running-the accepted regimen was a form of short sprinting called interval training. When Lydiard, who was initially dismissed by critics, was not invited to be a coach for his country's Olympic team at the 1960 Summer Games, he paid his own way to Rome, trained his runners outside official grounds, and brought home...
Doctors have known for a decade that statin drugs can prevent or reduce the severity of cardiovascular disease by lowering blood levels of LDL. But how low is low enough? A landmark study of more than 4,000 heart patients compared a standard LDL-lowering regimen (40 mg of Pravachol) with an intensive regimen (80 mg of Lipitor) and found that even though both reduced LDL levels to below the recommended benchmark of 100 mg/dL, the patients on the higher dose were 16% less likely than those on the lower dose to get worse or die. The bottom line: what...