lack of veggie leads to obesity in teenage girls.

Here is a great article on why eating your veggies is important to keeping the fat away.

By Terri Coles
TORONTO (Reuters) – Many teenage girls are not getting the nutrients they need to ensure healthy development, putting them at risk for weight-related problems and cardiovascular disease.
Female adolescence is an important time for setting up adult health, as nutritional needs change because of increased growth and the beginning of menstruation, said Andy Bellatti, who runs the popular nutrition blog Small Bites. But studies have shown that on average, teenage girls are not getting enough fiber, calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium or vitamins A, E and B in their diets, and are eating too much saturated fat and sodium, said Bellatti, who is also a graduate student in New York University’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health.
“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done,” he said.
In American adolescents aged 12 to 19, the obesity rate has more than tripled from 5 percent to 17 percent over the last three decades, according to the Institute of Medicine. Research suggests that these children are likely to remain overweight into adulthood. One study showed that about 80 percent of kids who were overweight from ages 10 to 15 will be overweight as adults, and another found that 25 percent of obese adults were overweight kids.


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Richmond reassigned to keep pitching game up.

Well breaking into the big leagues can have its ups and down. And Scott seems to be having both.

After 3 games with the Jay's and some time in the bull pen he is back down pitching successfully in the AAA for the Syracuse Chiefs. I know that he will be called up again if he keeps pitching well like he has been.

check out his 2 latest pitching stats.

Date OPP W L ERA SV I PH ER BB SO

Aug 19 PAW 0 0 1.80 0 5.0 4 1 2 5
Aug 24 ROC 1 0 3.86 0 7.0 7 3 1 3

So some have questioned the Jay's timing by calling him up just before the Olympics but sports can be tough. I know that Scott will be up in the major leagues to stay soon. May be he just need a fascial stretch therapy session in between his games. Well I know I will see him back for stretches in the off season to help him get his arm ready for next time he get the call up.

You may not be a professional athlete but you should also look at stretching and doing self fascial release rolling. contact us to book a session or find out what you should be doing.

More news on Scott Richmond Blue Jay's pitcher

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=7d768930-baf6-48fa-a988-64dd31f73c1c
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Perseverance pays for pitcher, 28

From scraping bottom of boats to starting for the Blue Jays

Jim Jamieson, The ProvincePublished: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

You could say Scott Richmond's baseball career hit rock bottom, quite literally, when he spent his first three years after high school working on the North Vancouver docks.
He was scraping rust and rock-like barnacles off the bottoms of boats in his job at Seaspan International's shipyards.
But Richmond, a 6-foot-5 right-handed pitcher, will see his unlikely dream of playing major league baseball come true Wednesday in Toronto when he'll get the start for the Blue Jays against Tampa Bay at the Rogers Centre. Richmond, 28, who was called up by Toronto on Sunday, will be the 14th Canadian to appear in a Jays uniform at the major-league level.

Last season Scott Richmond was playing for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats in the independent Northern League, below single A. The North Vancouver pitcher now finds himself, at 28, on the verge of playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.
"Last season Scott Richmond was playing for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats in the independent Northern League, below single A. The North Vancouver pitcher now finds himself, at 28, on the verge of playing for the Toronto Blue Jays.","On Wednesday, North Vancouver's Scott Richmond will realize an unlikely dream when he joins the likes of Rod Barajas (left) and Matt Stairs of the Blue Jays, who are shown celebrating Stairs' two-run, fifth-inning homer during a 3-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays Monday in Toronto.

"I'm smiling from ear to ear," Richmond told the Toronto Sun. "It's nice, I don't have to fly and pitch the next day. I have a few days to think about it ... but I'm going to try not to think about it."
Richmond's saga gets even more far-fetched, as he'll be trading one dream for another. The call-up to the Blue Jays likely means he'll have to forgo his spot on Canada's Olympic baseball team. He was supposed to be at the Rogers Centre anyway, as the Olympic ball squad is going to be introduced before the game. Richmond just didn't think he'd be staying out on the field.

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