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Chris Cantell Discusses Sports: Sport can kill too
by Barbora Misakova

My father and brother are typical men, it means they love doing and also watching various kinds of sport ranging from volleyball, tennis, skiing to soccer while the last mentioned is their favorite. Every Sunday when our city's league is played they are there watching and of course swearing if the match is not developing the way they want to. However I never thought they could be in danger until Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck didn't present results of his research. Steinbeck who works for Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich made with his colleagues research related to health hazard connected with European soccer. Their study was released in New England Journal of Medicine where they claim that emotional stress can lead or even be a reason of heart problems. Steinbeck with his colleagues made this research during World Cup in Germany in 2006 and results were compared with other periods in 2003 and 2005. This study included more than 4000 patients and results showed that cases of cardiac emergencies increased two times, for men had been even tripled. Another expert, psychologist Douglas Carroll from University of Birmingham said that soccer can have similar influence on our heart as war or earthquakes & in all cases it can make such emotional pressure on our heart we can get a heart attack! Just imagine, you are going on football match, you just want to drink one beer or have some hamburger, you just want to enjoy your ordinary Sunday but there is no assurance you will come back home alive. But this danger touches also soccer players themselves. Just remember how many soccer players died on heart attack during the match.Of course experts do not force us to stop playing or watching soccer & honestly they could hardly achieve this gain, they appeal on us not to smoke and drink a lot, try to avoid overeating and junk food and last but not least try not to get angry what is sometimes more than impossible. For those who have problems with hear or have high blood pressure or diabetes they recommend to take their medications as prescribed and what is the most important & do not over-expert themselves physically. So if you belong to soccer lover you should be careful and do not forget that soccer is just a sport.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080131/ap_on_he_me/super_bowl_heart;_ylt=At4bDngnINGfp09UcNY_wYWs0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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Edited by Federica Paddeu

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