By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60 (CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, April 6, 2017). The Communicable Disease Center estimates that these cancer-causing viruses infect 80 million … [Read more...] about Cancer-Causing HPV Found in 20 Percent of U.S. Teens and Adults
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The RBR Crew’s Crashes: Lessons Learned
Editor's Note: As mentioned last week, we'll start the process this week of providing some instruction and ideas on how to prevent crashes by talking in some detail about the crash history of the RBR Crew – along with the Lesson(s) learned from some of those crashes. The idea is to lay out some of what we recognize as our own mistakes or various situations that led to crashes … [Read more...] about The RBR Crew’s Crashes: Lessons Learned
No Amount of Overweight is Healthful
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Earlier this month, researchers at Boston University and Harvard reviewed three studies following more than 225,000 adults over age 50, for eight to 20 years, and showed that being even slightly overweight can increase your risk of dying by 6 percent, and in those who are obese, by a whopping 73 percent (Annals of Internal Medicine, April 3, 2017). The … [Read more...] about No Amount of Overweight is Healthful
How to Ride a Bicycle Over Rough Pavement or Cobbles
By Coach Fred Matheny I’ve never ridden the fabled cobblestone roads of northern France or Belgium, the ones that shake riders into insensibility in Paris-Roubaix and some of the other Spring Classics. But on my local training roads we have the next best thing for masochistic riding – genuine western Colorado chip-and-seal. Recently, they’ve been using gravel so large … [Read more...] about How to Ride a Bicycle Over Rough Pavement or Cobbles
Paris-Roubaix: The Six Success Factors
By Coach John Hughes Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) won Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, soundly defeating Tom Boonen (Quick-Step) and Peter Sagan (Bora–Hansgrohe). Boonen had won Paris-Roubaix four times, equaling Roger De Vlaeminck in wins. This was his last race — he retired at the end of the day — and he intended to go out with a win. At the very beginning of the … [Read more...] about Paris-Roubaix: The Six Success Factors