Essays Tagged: "Heat illness"

Exercise in the heat.

INTRODUCTIONSome of the most severe stress an athlete can encounter is exercise in the heat. The fact that many sporting events are held in unfavourable environmental conditions makes it ... this challenge and understand how to effectively acclimatise their athletes for competition in the heat. Performance is almost always worsened during hot weather, and sometimes the heat can pose a th ... famous championship marathon races that where held in hot weather provide some examples of serious heat illness, including Dorando Pietri in the 1908 Olympic marathon in London, Jim Peters at the Emp ...

(13 pages) 119 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Views on the movie "Sugar Cane Alley."

manual hard labor, they are going to get thirsty and need to drink some water to keep from getting heat illness or dehydration.Adam Smith would also criticize the part of "Sugar Cane Alley" when Jose ...

(3 pages) 21 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Health and safety: Heat & temperature in the workplace

tionThere are many health and safety hazards the worker must to face in the workplace. For example, heat stress is one of the potential hazards of the worker's health and safety. Heat stress has been ... existed in the workplace from formerly to nowadays. Despite the humanity is aware the hazard of the heat stress and try to prevent the injury or heat and safety risk of the heat stress, the problem of ...

(5 pages) 43 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers