Show 1011: Sports and Concussions

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Sports are a great way for kids to get physical activity and learn teamwork. But how vulnerable are kids’ brains when they play sports? In many popular sports such as football, soccer or lacrosse, players may collide with each other or with the ball. How could a bump on the head affect the brain? What […]

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0:40.3	For decades, concussions were considered an unavoidable hazard of sports like football,
0:46.3	lacrosse and rugby. What's changed? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
1:04.5	Head injuries can cause lasting scars in the brain where you can't see them.
1:08.8	Even seemingly minor concussions may produce long-lasting harm.
1:12.5	When thousands of football players successfully sued the NFL because it downplayed the dangers of concussions,
1:15.9	Americans started paying more attention to brain injuries.
1:19.6	How vulnerable are children playing sports like soccer, football, or hockey?
1:24.1	How could sports be changed to protect their heads better?
1:29.1	What about other types of head injuries such as car accidents or falls? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the latest on diagnosing
1:35.5	and treating head injuries. First, this news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:43.8	processed meats such as salami, bacon, hot dogs, or ham have been classified as human carcinogens, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. This branch of the World Health Organization also suggested that people who regularly eat red meat may be putting themselves at risk for prostate
2:02.4	or pancreatic cancer. This is not the first time that processed meat has been suspected of
2:08.5	contributing to human cancer. The American Cancer Society tracked more than 184,000 volunteers
2:15.1	between 1992 and 2009.
2:18.3	They found that those who ate 10 servings a week of processed meats were at much higher
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