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A family friend of a Moji employee passed away this past week from anorexia at the age of sixty-four – a tragedy that happens far too often in women of all ages.

Female athletes are particularly prone to disordered eating as a result of the pressures of their sport, their peers, and the media.  Though sports requiring weigh-ins and aesthetic judging may come to mind, all competitive athletic activities can cause undue pressure in women to restrict their caloric intake.  Endurance sports, sports that require revealing uniforms, and sports that benefit from diminutive frames are just a few other categories that yield an unnaturally high number of athletes with eating disorders.  Unfortunately, that means that very few, if any, sports are a safe haven for women.

It is important to understand the risk factors and warning signs associated with eating disorders in female athletes and the unfortunate progression of the often serious, and sometimes deadly, conditions known as the Female Athlete Triad.

The Female Athlete Triad is three interrelated medical conditions born from aggressive athletic training in conjunction with disordered eating.  These conditions are:

-energy deficiency (disordered eating)

-amenorrhea (menstrual disturbances)

-osteoporosis (bone loss)

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Well for one, we can learn about how good Jordan Brand products look on them and wonder how much they were paid to star in this spot.

Second, we can learn about how we are not alone in our daily challenges, as even professional athletes experience what we might call “road blocks”.  These can range from actual physical road blocks to mental and emotional road blocks, i.e. the night before you first 20 mile training run or thinking about what the heck you are going to make with that huge head of cabbage you bought on sale last week.

These athletes make their modest income based upon the fact that they are the best in the world at what they do, even though they have the occasional outburst (see 0:22 on video).  They experience the same frustrations we do, albeit in different forms.  This video shows you how they take that frustration and turn it into success.

Keep working hard, and you too could “Be Like Mike”.

The New York City Marathon will celebrate its 40th running this Sunday, November 1^st when tens of thousands of runners from across the globe will enjoy the sights, sounds, and outrageous crowds of the city’s five boroughs.

What many of these athletes won’t know is that this unparalleled look at New York is thanks in large part to Fred Lebow, the avid runner and Romanian immigrant that founded the New York City marathon in 1970.  In honor of the U.S. bicentennial, Lebow had the guts to take the 1976 marathon from Central Park to the streets of New York City.  The inaugural street-course ran through all five boroughs at a time when many of these neighborhoods were unimaginably dangerous.  When the starting gun went off that fall morning, skeptics swore that some might not come back alive.

Yet, 26.2 miles later, Lebow and his fellow runners had united a city and ignited the distance running craze.

Filmmaker Judd Ehrlich captured Fred Lebow’s incredible life, which is in large part the history of the New York City Marathon in Run for Your Life.  The movie, which premiered last year, depicts the determination of a slow but dedicated runner who fell in love with the sport and decided to share that passion with the world.

Good luck to all of those runners who will become a part of Fred Lebow’s legacy this Sunday.  May each of you find his inspiration and love of both the city and the sport on the streets of New York.