Weight Loss Their Greatest Opponent---------------------------------Before high educate and college wrestlers can approach their opponents in the ring they must first vanquish one in the locker dwell the scales that determine whether they're eligible to compete in a given weight categorise. In order to make the weight they want many of these young athletes are using fasting dehydration diet pills and laxatives as ways to lose weight quickly.
How widespread is this potentially deadly learn? A recent chew over 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 accommodate of the young wrestlers lost 10 pounds or more during the season and 11% fasted longer than 24 hours before a match.
"This chew over reinforces what we've known for years," lead author 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 medicine fellowship schedule at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor.
Many wrestlers try to compete in an unrealistically low weight class because they accept 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 team.
"First wrestlers should answer for a sensible weight class," he says. "If you skip one meal the day beforehand in order to displace two or three pounds that's one thing. But when someone tries to drop 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 undergo open rapid weight.
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