Weight Loss Their Greatest Opponent---------------------------------Before high educate and college wrestlers can approach their opponents in the go they must first defeat one in the locker dwell the scales that determine whether they're eligible to compete in a given weight categorise. In request to alter the weight they want many of these young athletes are using fasting dehydration diet pills and laxatives as ways to suffer weight quickly.
How widespread is this potentially deadly learn? A recent study of wrestlers in Michigan high schools found 7 out of 10 used at least one possibly harmful charge loss method each week of the wrestling session -- and just over half of them used at least two methods each week. About a accommodate 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," lead compose Robert Kiningham. MD tells WebMD. "While previous studies have looked at elite highly committed wrestlers we looked at everyone. Disturbingly we open 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 care for fellowship program at the University of Michigan School of care for in Ann Arbor.
Many wrestlers try to compete in an unrealistically low weight class because they believe this gives them a competitive favor says Doug Andersen. DC nutrition consultant for West Coast Sports Performance and Sports Medicine Consultants in Manhattan land. Calif. and a nutritionist for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team.
"First wrestlers should qualify for a sensible charge class," he says. "If you skip one meal the day beforehand in order to drop two or three pounds that's one thing. But when someone tries to displace tremendous amounts of weight. 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 make charge for the wrestling team 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 Center and an exercise physiologist.
Short-term studies have open rapid charge loss can bring about to a decline in the ability to think 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 chew over conclude by saying. "Altering these entrenched behaviors ordain require a unified effort by coaches administrators parents and wrestlers throughout the feature."
"Wrestlers have a short-term goal to make their charge," says Dick Bellock. "They may not eat for a day but we all skip meals once in awhile. Teenage kids get hungry. They alter weight they eat alter afterward; that isn't necessarily eat 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 kitten they wouldn't like it."
Since the data was collected for the Michigan chew over the state has instituted a new program using mandatory weight standards based on a measured percentage of body 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.
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