| Spring is in full swing here in Michigan
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| | It seems like almost every fun activity
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| and around the country. That means you
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| | we have for our kids couples with a bag
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| can find young athletes playing soccer
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| | full of crap: youth sports, birthday
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| and baseball in any given park just about
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| | parties, Easter baskets, 4th of July
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| every night of the week. It also means
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| | parades, Halloween trick-or-treating,
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| that on game days our young players get
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| | Christmas stockings, or just the every
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| rewarded with cookies, chips and
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| | day trip to the local ice cream parlor.
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| super-processed-jumbo-sized-mega-sized-ch
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| | Now I like a good scoop of Moose Tracks
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| ocolate-sugar-pops after their hard
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| | ice cream on a waffle cone as much as the
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| fought battles.
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| | next person. The whole point is
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| When did it happen? When did our nation
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| | moderation. The ballpark is one area
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| associate youth sports as another chance
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| | where our kids should be able to have fun
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| to dose our kids up with candy? Can't we
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| | without the post-game sugar bombs. It's
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| just play the game for the game itself?
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| | one place where they can learn to have
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| Just this week yet another report came
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| | fun without the need for junk food.
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| out with huge Red Flag warnings for us to
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| | Kids may complain a little the first
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| ignore. This study found that between the
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| | season because they have come to expect
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| years of 1997 and 2003 the rate of kids
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| | those rings pops and juice box rewards.
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| hospitalized for type II diabetes jumped
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| | But they will quickly get over it. I
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| 4-fold. That's a 200% increase in
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| | didn't have any players quit my team when
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| hospitalization for type II diabetes in
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| | I neglected to set a snack schedule at
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| kids, with those between 9 and 12 years
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| | the beginning of the season last year.
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| old showing the worst hospitalization
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| | As a little aside, those sports drinks
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| rates. This is reaffirming the CDC's
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| | that you see super athletes drinking on
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| (Center for Disease Control) prediction
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| | TV aren't going to help your kids either.
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| that 1 out of 3 of today's kids will
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| | Those are great for replacing
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| become diabetic.
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| | electrolytes in an older athlete who is
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| I coach soccer in a small town where we
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| | really taxing his or her body and
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| have about 250 kids playing soccer this
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| | sweating buckets. But I can tell you that
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| fall in our club. If we are an average
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| | in my 20 years of coaching, I have never
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| town then the CDC's prediction translates
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| | seen an elementary school age player with
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| to more than 80 of those 250 young soccer
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| | the need for those drinks. Have you ever
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| players with diabetes in their future.
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| | looked at their labels for sugar and salt
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| Personally, I can't believe we would let
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| | concentration? Water works just fine for
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| this actually happen - yet the data says
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| | our youngest players.
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| it is happening.
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| | It may be an unpopular move in the
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| But here's the thing, the single biggest
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| | beginning but please encourage your team
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| reason for this increase in diabetes
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| | coach or manager to forego the snack
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| rates is completely preventable. All we
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| | schedule this year - unless of course you
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| have to do is stop giving our kids all
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| | think your kids would enjoy injecting
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| these sugary treats. We need to
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| | themselves with insulin every day of
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| disassociate candy and treats from having
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| | their adult life.
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| fun.
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