Of Good Report - March

This newsletter is to help spread the Good News of the World. With all the bad news that is everpresent in today's media, here is our small attempt to make sure the Good News doesn't get lost.

GREECE, NEW YORK
Team manager Jason McElwain shocked and awed the crowd during a senior night basketball game recently. During the last game of the season the coach allowed Jason, normally scooping up wet towels and chasing down errant basketballs during practice, to suit up. With a comfortable lead in the 2nd half Coach Johnson called Jason's number and put him in the game.

In and of itself this isn't such an amazing story. It's happened before. We all remember the great football movie "Rudy" and other similar stories. This was a little bit different. Jason is autistic. While a highly funtioning autistic teenager Jason wasn't considered a possibility to make the Junior Varsity team so he signed up to be the team's manager.
A great story already, this one gets even better. On his first shot he missed the basket by 6 feet. His Mother was praying for Jason to make even 1 point with this once in a lifetime chance. Jason shot again and again and again. He made 6 straight 3 point shots to break his high school's record for one half of basketball.
After a total of 20 points in just over 4 minutes Jason's teammates and the crowd carried him off on their shoulders.
An amazing experience for an amazing young man. Jason was clearly uplifted by the experience and now we as bystanders can be uplifted by his story.

OLYMPIC CHAMPION FOR CHARITY
After winning a Gold medal in the 500 meter speed skating event in Torino Italy at the 20th Winter Games, skater Joey Cheek donated his $25K award to charity. The USOC gives money to athletes that win medals and Joey gave his entire award to the RIGHT TO PLAY charity. Find out more HERE.

ROTTERDAM
A recent study of older men in the Netherlands seems to bear out that eating chocolate or cocoa products in general will help in lowering high blood pressure.

The men ate the equivalent of one third of a bar of chocolate per day and at the end of the study showed a marked reduction in blood pressure.
The reason? Cocoa beans contain flavanols, which are thought to increase nitric oxide in the blood and improve the function of blood vessels.
A researcher did state however that "It's way too early to make recommendations about whether people should eat more cocoa or chocolate," said Brian Buijsse, a nutritional epidemiologist at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, who co-authored the study.
Now isn't this something we all wanted to hear? Finally some good news about eating something we love! Of course it has already been proven empirically by millions of people that if you eat too much it is bad for you and will cause weight gain and other health problems.
Moderation, moderation, moderation. Keep telling yourself that as you whip out the Ghirardelli squares!

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