Heat injury has been much in the news of late, with the American College of Sports Medicine releasing guidelines in August on youth football and heat stress, and a recent study detailing 5,246 US Army soldiers' hospitalization and 37 deaths due to "heat illness."1 It's time to take a critical, logical look at some of the underlying causes, and what, indeed, would constitute proper preventive measures.
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