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Article: Health Risks for Teenage Athletes.(Women's Sports Foundation study)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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A Women's Sports Foundation nationwide study offers a comprehensive evaluation of the connections--either positive or negative-between sports and adolescent health risks. It explores the ways in which they are related for both girls and boys, while analyzing some of the multifaceted connections of the sports experience to the health, safety, and fitness of American teenagers.
According to Kathleen Miller, a professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., the study's director, "Sport wears two faces. It can be a mechanism for positive public health outcomes, but also can promote certain health risks and negative behaviors in young people. We need to ...