Snowboarding season is right around the corner boys and girls

Snowboarding season is right around the corner boys and girls. Im getting the pre season butterflies and can't wait for the local slopes to open their lifts for shredding. Appalachian State is getting their Club Snowboard Team ready for action to defend their ranking of 2nd in conference and 6th in the nation! A little better than their prized football team Many of you might not know about college snowboarding and many of the schools don't appreciate their club snowboard teams; all of the athletes pay almost 100 of their travel and competition fees. These teams travel almost every weekend to compete against schools from their conferences representing their schools, and if you have been snowboarding or skiing you know how expensive it is to spend a weekend at the mountain. Appalachian State just spent millions of dollars to renovate their stadium for a team that isn't living up to their hype! They spent so much of their budget on the stadium that the teachers are not allowed to use paper from the school to print off class assignments and such Wow! Can't believe it Me neither... So spending a little bit of money on club sports that bring just as much prestige to the school as their mainstreem sports doesn't sound too rediculous now does it.

App State took the number 2 in conference and 6th in the nation! I don't think their Football team can say that this year.. The team is working with local snowboard shops to come up with sponsorship deals to make the financial burden on the riders a little less heavy A big thanks to Alpine Ski Center. A little thanks to App Ski Mtn who was generous enough to take whopping 30 dollars off their 300 dollar season pass! The average cost on the athletes for just the regional events was upwards of a 1000 dollars! And to go to nationals alone was over a 1000 Dollars! But the students sucked it up and paid the steep prices to represent their school. So the schools should put a little more thought into their club sports to help out the students that are exhausting their financial resources to be part of promoting their school in the sports they love.Look for App State this year on the slopes and in the magazines. If you want to check out some media you can go to on youtube at words of wisdom Wax it and Shred it! Till next time, Peace! . NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Efforts to fight obesity among children and teens should include strategies to help them think differently about their eating and exercise habits, researchers conclude based on a review of 64 studies of lifestyle "therapy" and drug interventions. HealthAnd it's important for parents to get involved, especially for pre-adolescent children, Dr.

Hiltje Oude Luttikhuis, of the Beatrix Children's Hospital in Groningen, The Netherlands, and her colleagues say.The review is published in the Cochrane Library, which is put out by The Cochrane Collaboration, an international group that produces systematic reviews of health care interventions.The current review is an update of the first one, done in 2003. No direct conclusions could be drawn from the earlier review, Luttikhuis and her team note, because of the small size of many of the studies as well as quality concerns. The new review incorporates randomized, controlled trials published as recently as May 2008, including 12 targeting increased activity; 6 focused on diet; 36 of behavioral treatment; and 10 of drug therapy. None of these potential adverse effects were seen in any of the studies.The researchers were able to analyze the trials that included treatment with orlistat, a drug that blocks fat absorption, and those that included treatment with sibutramine, an appetite suppressant. They were unable to discern whether one medication was more effective than another."Evidence from this review shows that family-based, lifestyle interventions with a behavioral program aimed at changing diet and physical activity thinking patterns provide significant and clinically meaningful decrease in overweight in both children and adolescents compared to standard care or self-help in the short- and the long-term," the researchers write.While orlistat and sibutramine should be considered as part of a lifestyle treatment program for obese adolescents, they add, "such therapy needs to be carefully weighed up against the potential for adverse events."SOURCE: The Cochrane Library, 2009. Health.

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