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UP TIPS study helps make rugby players healthier to perform in tournaments

The largest prospective study on illness in rugby union players has revealed that 70% of the players studied in just one season’s Super Rugby Tournament reported illness at some time during the tournament.

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‘The drug everyone should take! Why, how, and what?’

Prof Martin Schwellnus, specialist sports and exercise medicine physician and Director of the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute at the University of Pretoria, presented a lecture titled 'The drug everyone should take! Why, how, and what?' as part of the University's popular Expert lecture series. According to Prof Schwellnus scientific studies have identified one 'drug' that...

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UP helps to keep cyclists safe during the Cape Town Cycle Tour

The 40th Cape Town Cycle Tour will take place on Sunday, 12 March 2017. This popular annual event is the largest, timed cycling event in the world and on Sunday morning 35 000 cyclists will line up to race.

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Sport medicine lifestyle researchers #TeamUP against diabetes, heart disease and depression

More than half of South Africans do not play sports or exercise regularly. A new UP institute will address the problem by supporting healthy, active lifestyles through research.

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Sport medicine lifestyle researchers #teamup against diabetes, heart disease and depression

More than half of South Africans do not play sports or exercise regularly. A new UP institute will address the problem by supporting healthy, active lifestyles through research.

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Team UP against lifestyle diseases

The vision for the institute is to be an “international leader in scientific, translational research that promotes health and well-being in the population through lifestyle interventions, reduces exercise-related injuries and medical complications, and promotes sporting excellence on a platform characterised by world class education, service delivery and the use of modern technology.”