Bryce Harper

Bryce Harper's first year in professional baseball had its share of highs and lows - sometimes in the same game. The Washington Nationals are expected to field some time on Monday, a kiss to the opposing pitcher, after hitting a homerun in the 3-2 loss to Greensboro Hagerstown 'A' Class A South Atlantic League.

The game is scoreless in the sixth inning, Harper hit a home run to right center field and took a few seconds of his handiwork in the batters' box to admire his bat before throwing away, and slowly toward the front. Greensboro pitcher Zach Neal does not seem to care about Harper and Harper's another one let me know how he felt when he was around the bases according to the media. Harper responded to mop up in the direction of Neal when he got home plate.

Harper's next trip to the plate, Hagerstown behind 3-2 in the eighth, relief pitcher Grant Dayton Greensboro Harper backed off the plate from the first pitch high and inside. Harper connected with the second, but a long high ball was caught on the fence. "I just missed a couple of inches, " said Harper, the Hagerstown Herald-Mail. "It was a corner, and I just missed it. ... I thought I understood, and is closely linked to the game and gives us a chance to go to extra innings."

MLB Draft

If Major League Baseball amateur draft on Monday wore Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin influence permeated the event. By the time the first round and compensation in closed, his hand was a four-team pitchers heard his name called. Vanderbilt ties with four players - two pitchers and two starting rookies - the first 60 items were selected in the MLB Draft. Friday / Saturday starters Sonny Gray Grayson Garvin was the first of two current players were picked. Super rookies Tyler Beed and Kevin Comer picked up in high school, and the same team.

Gray, a possible top five pick in next season, fell to the Oakland Athletics in the 18th, that the things the Commodores. Gray was an impressive season, but questions about the size (5'11 ", she is less than most starting pitchers in Major League) are sliding down the draft board. However, the Pride of Smyrna a chance to direct a impact to see A's as one of the most polished pitchers in the draft this year. Gray is dominant at every level that he played so far, starting with the whole high school, summer league in SEC play and even an impressive stint in American baseball.

Gray, a partner in nausea, Grayson Garvin, Commodore was the next to be selected on Monday night. Garvin, physically imposing lefty, who is the 2011 SEC Pitcher of the Year, went to the 59th Overall, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He will join another former Vanderbilt ace of the staff there - last year's Cy Young Award runner-up David Price.

Dash Diet

Adolescent girls who diet similar to adult hypertension is recommended that the total profit of less body mass index (BMI) of more than 10 years. Chicago, IL - info zine - "child obesity causes many health problems associated with early death, and even as an adult," the authors write as background information for a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA / Archives journals. However, the authors note that the investigation of food-based diets to recognize that the consumption of different nutrients together also have a positive effect on health. Such a sample diet, diet Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) was originally studied as a treatment of adults with high blood pressure, according to the article in the background.

OJ Berze Jonathan, MD, M.Sc., Boston University Medical Center and colleagues studied the impact of the DASH-style eating plan with a BMI (weight in kilograms divided by the calculated height in meters squared) is a racially diverse sample of adolescent girls. The authors examined data on 2,237 girls 9 years in the National Growth and Health Study from 1987 to 1988 participated and were followed for 10 years. Data were collected annually, and each participant was given a score based on DASH food group membership individual nutritional needs.

Higher DASH scores were higher overall energy intake, and a higher average intake of certain food groups (whole grains, vegetables, fruits, lean meats, low fat dairy products and nuts / seeds / legumes). Girls in the highest quintile of DASH score was the lowest increase in BMI during the study, and all the lowest BMI at the end of the follow-up. In contrast, the age of 19 years, the girls in the lowest quintile had an average DASH score BMI greater than the threshold for obesity as defined by the 85th percentile for age.