B7 - Sunday, November 27, 1983 - North Shore News

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STATISTICS CAN HELP

Learn to get your life in shape

Health statistics tell us a lot about ourselves. They also tell us how we can change our ways in order to live more safe and healthful lives.

The Health and Welfare document, Chronic Diseases in Canada, notes, for example, that from 1976 to 1978 53 per cent of all deaths of children between the ages of | and 14 resulted from accidental or violent cause. The three major causes were transportation accidents, drowning, and fires.

Of the childhood deaths due to drowning, close to half were children in the 1 to 4 year age group. (Drowning accounted for one-quarter of all deaths in the | to 4 age group.) These statistics reinforce the importance of

lifeguarding young children in the water and educating them about water safety as they grow older.

Similar care must be taken to protect children from the risk of injury or death due to burns. Statistics again show that children in the | to 4 age group constituted nearly half of those aged ! to 14 who died from burn injuries. It’s, therefore, worth reminding of the obvious: allowing children to play with mat- ches is really letting them play with fire. and great care should be taken in cooking

whenever toddlers are around. As for transportation

accidents, the high number of motor vehicle passenger fatahties in the 1 to 4 age group may reflect the failure

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vitamin E, magnesium acid, chelate, potassium/magnes- ium asparate, silenium, garlic, heart and carnitine.

CONSIDER YOUR SPORT

Tennis and racquet sport players should consider Vitamin A for good day and mght vision, Vitamin D for strong bones and _= stable nervous system, Vitamin E to heighten oxygen utilization and Vitamin C to prevent bruising and to strengthen blood vessels.

The line-up of nutnents and vitamins Uhat can help

increase performance in specfic sports while protecting the health == of

athletes ts extensive.

Sports participants have two options in securing these important nutritional supplements cating the proper foods containing these supplements of taking vitamin supplements

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NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

The first choice is more difficult, says Vita-Fresh, because it requires a thorough understanding of what foods provide par- ticular nutritional com- ponents. Even then, vitamin supplements may _ be necessary in instances where foods lack specific nutnents.

Most recently, a new “science” called “Specialized Sports Nutrition” has emerged whereby vitamins for participants in specific sports have been packaged.

The Wilson = Sports Nutrition Program, offenng nutntional supplements for eight specific sports, ts an cxample of this new ap- proach.

Considering that provements in sports equipment has been a continuing process, it was only a matter of Gme before attention was focused on the most important “equipment” of all the athlete

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Specialized sports nutrition Is an important ingredient in this new approach

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Pedestrians accounted for 40 percent of the tran- sportation deaths, with 5 to 9-year-olds al greatest risk. Formal safety education im schools and = informal, regular reminders by parents could help reduce _ this unfortunate statistic.

While safety education for children. will help things from the pedestrian side. legislation and education about drinking and driving

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While on the topic of alcohol, the = Statistics Canada _ publication Per-

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Perspective on Health also offers statisncs and advice for health care planning. It notes that for the next few decades planning of health resources may be affected much more by changes in population age = structure than by change in its size.

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Health care costs will rise dramatically in the future with this changing population structure unless we — individually — live more healthfully and control our demands for expensive treatment services.

(Gordon Stewart is a fitness consultant based tn B.C. and the author of Every Body's Fitness Book.)

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