PLAYGROUND SAFETY

The National Safety Council reports that playground injuries send more than 200,000 children each year to hospital emergency rooms. Keep your children and other loved ones safe. Check your backyard and neighborhood playgrounds for safety issues. Key safety needs include smooth-edged equipment, guardrails and at least 12 inches of soft ground surfaces, such as mulch or pea gravel.


Source:  National Safety Council

CHOCOLATE MILK: THE NEW SPORTS DRINK

Serious and recreational athletes alike are returning to a childhood favorite—chocolate milk—in place of more common sports drinks. When pitted against commercial sports recovery drinks, several new studies have found that chocolate milk is the superior beverage when it comes to post-exercise recovery and fluid replacement. Chocolate milk is 90 percent water, so it’s ideal for rehydration. It also has the perfect combination of carbohydrates and protein to refuel a tired athlete’s body, and it’s packed with many other nutrients including calcium and vitamins A and D.

Source: Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism