To the editor:

As the rest of the country comes to its senses regarding good nutrition, most of our athletes remain ignorant of the importance of mineral ascorbates and other nutrients for increasing energy and avoiding injuries and joint damage.

As a sports official for local college and high school teams, I find it disgraceful the way coaches, trainers and sports medicine people are willing to let our youthful athletes destroy their bodies just so these “experts” can protect their institutional ignorance. The facts are so plain, and it costs so little to prove to oneself or anybody that conventional medical thinking about healthy nutrition in sports is wrong and dangerous.

I heard growing up in church that cowards are the first to be thrown into hell. I hope that applies to such “experts” who fear the truth and hide from it. Whining that it “costs too much,” they endanger our young athletes by this abdication of their responsibility to properly train them.

Charles Adams,

Lawrence