>>>>I was focusing on schools who benefit when students placed in their care risk their lives in these sports.
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>>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11553573/School-rugby-harms-children-and-should-not-be-promoted-says-prof.html
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>>I'd say that the obesity trend definitely is connected to worse outcomes including Diabetes that is going to stress even the wealthiest healthcare funding models... if a kid with a diabetic tendency breaks an arm but stays slim because he played Rugby- why would you focus only on the broken arm?
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>Wow.. John.. your usually piercing rhetorical skills are off-peak.
>That same kid can slim down by running cross country, which doesn't involve knocking himself and someone else senseless.
>BTW, while practicing golf shots (for mental health only- no improvement) I watch high school (US) football players working out. The monster linemen are picked BECAUSE they're fat and huge. No coach in his right mind would do anything that would make those monsters lose even a pound. Kids at other positions might lose weight, but not those mammoths, who need to lose it most.

My sister did a degree at OU and was living in residence for a semester. Cafeteria food was included, and you could eat as much as you wanted as long as you ate what you took. Wasting food was severely frowned upon.

She has stories of football players (OU Sooners) who would come in for "breakfast" and eat doughnuts by the tray. Dinner, 3 or more steaks. In cattle country, the varsity supporters made sure the cafeteria *never* ran out of steaks.

I wonder if North American HS/college football has discovered the Japanese sumo diet (chankonabe). Maybe we shouldn't give them any ideas...

OTOH it may be no more effective than Big Macs, fries and Big Gulps.