Taylor Townsend Too Fat To Play Tennis
According to an article published by the dailymail.co.uk, Taylor Townsend, the number one junior tennis player in the world, is too fat to play tennis. The article reports the 16 year old was asked to slim down by the U.S. Tennis Association because they are concerned about her long term health.
In addition her mother paid all the expenses to bring Taylor to the U.S. Open after the USTA developmental program refused to fund her trip.
It’s disturbing that the USTA would put more emphasis on the teen’s body than her obvious talent. Is it more important that we encourage sportsmanship and developing the players or what they look like? One should not have anything to do with the other.
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Dr. Carnethon discovered something … puzzling: Diabetes patients of normal weight are twice as likely to die as those who are overweight or obese. That finding makes diabetes the latest example of a medical phenomenon that mystifies scientists. They call it the obesity paradox.
In study after study, overweight and moderately obese patients with certain chronic diseases often live longer and fare better than normal-weight patients with the same ailments. The accumulation of evidence is inspiring some experts to re-examine long-held assumptions about the association between body fat and disease.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/health/research/more-data-suggests-fitness-matters-more-than-weight.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share&_rmoc.semityn.www
USTA, you people are diseased.