There’s no question that hockey players are among the world’s toughest athletes. If anyone needed any reminding of this, a great example was provided by Gregory Campbell of the Boston Bruins in last year’s Stanley Cup play-offs. While killing a penalty, Campbell dove to block a slap shot from two time NHL scoring champion Evgeni Malkin. The impact of the speeding puck broke his leg instantly. Campbell got back up and finished the shift. Can one imagine a soccer player reacting in such a manner? Or how would a badminton player respond to breaking a bone in mid-play? My purpose in singling out these two sports is not to pick on these athletes. I single out these sports only because there are actually scientific studies that have found soccer players and badminton players have “tougher” bones than hockey players. In this case the more accurate term than “tougher” is “higher bone mineral density”. Bone mineral density (BMD) is a measure of the amount of minerals (like
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Nutrition for Karate
On Friday June 5th I was honored to be asked to speak about sports nutrition at Karate Canada’s Junior National Training Camp. As per usual, whenever a group is kind enough to ask me to present to them, I dive into the scientific literature that exists on that topic. So here is a blog especially for all the coaches who signed up for my newsletter at that camp – as well as for anyone else who is interested in the physical science of the sport of karate. The first thing my Medline search at the University of Toronto revealed was that there has been unfortunately little scientific work done pertaining specifically to karate. Karate athletes will no doubt be perturbed to hear their combative sport cousins in judo and taekwondo have garnered much more of the focus of the scientific community. This is no doubt due to their status as Olympic sports – another point of contention for my new friends in the karate world! Believe it or not my search of the terms “karate” and “nutrit
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In Defense of Eggs
I remember it well. It was about a year ago now. I was in the midst of eating my beloved breakfast omelet. The morning news was on the television. It told me there was a new study finding that eating eggs were just as bad for me as smoking. This was making headlines all over […]
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NHL Nutritional Non-Sense: Part IV
O.K. the subject of this blog will not specifically be about nutritional non-sense in hockey. I guess you might say it is more accurately about fitness non-sense in hockey. But of course we all know nutrition is a significant component of fitness, so I am granting myself some poetic license in fitting this topic under […]
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What Twin Studies Tell us About Weight Loss
How much of your body weight is determined by your DNA?
In reality losing weight is extremely complex. Exercise and diet are no doubt pieces of the equation but so too are numerous other variables. One variable I’d like to examine a little more closely is DNA.
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