I have been kicking secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) to the curb through conscious living for over 1,400 days now. Food, movement, and mindfulness are my drugs of choice. The journey we call life is full of twists and turns, and the latest twist for me was a trip to Ecuador.
CrossFit Founder and CEO asks California community for help in support of statewide health-warning labels on sugary drinks.
Change is afoot. As CrossFit Inc. Founder and CEO Greg Glassman explained Big Soda’s many evils to CrossFit athletes during the first few days of the California Invasion, seismic shifts were happening outside affiliate walls.
On Nov. 6, the University of Colorado School of Medicine announced it would return a US$1 million gift from The Coca-Cola Co. Days later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended a daily limit on sugar consumption for the first time. And in the city of Riverside, California, the City Council unanimously voted to adopt guidelines frowning upon the city’s providing food and beverages with added sweeteners.
Still, there’s work to be done. The solution begins, in part, with a health-warning label on sugar-sweetened beverages, Glassman said.
“If we get the label on the can … it will be increasingly hard for Coke to fund our enemies,” he noted, alluding to Big Soda’s links to the United States Registry of Exercise Professionals (USREPS), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
The label—which Sen. Bill Monning has introduced in the Senate during the previous two sessions of the California Legislature—would contain a simple warning statement.
“It’s happened before with alcohol, with cigarettes. It’s their turn. It’s soda’s turn,” Glassman said.
He called on members of his audiences to visit CrushBigSoda.com, a site through which they can send their senator an email.
“Only you can stop ’em,” he said. “Only you.”
When I ask female athletes about their goals, improving their glutes is at the top of the list. In this article, I will discuss how well the standard squat develops the glutes, along with squat variations and exercises that work better.
The hip thruster is an obvious glute developer, but some people find it embarrassing to thrust your hips into a barbell in a public setting. So I’ll make the exercises male-friendly as well, and I promise there will be no awkward hip thrusters.
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Last week I had a few people ask me about my warm-up procedure for heavy lifts, so here are a few thoughts on that subject. I’m going to start with what I consider the ideal warm up for anyone about to lift heavy weights.
Clinton Foundation sends mixed signals by partnering with Coca-Cola while claiming to work for health and wellness.
The Clinton Foundation is currently giving a nod to Coca-Cola by hosting a public art exhibit at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, until Feb. 15, 2016.
The exhibit marks “The Coca-Cola Bottle’s 100-year anniversary” and features iconic images from the last century of Coca-cola marketing, complete with the classic small-town Americana of Norman Rockwell and Fred Mizen’s Coke-slinging Santa. While many will see Coca-Cola: An American Original as nothing more than a nostalgic tribute to a classic U.S. brand, the exhibit actually highlights the uncomfortably close relationship between Big Soda and big philanthropy.
Historically, the Clinton Foundation has taken a strong stance against childhood obesity, which Bill Clinton recently called “one of the most important issues facing our country today.” The foundation’s website also notes that “people are eating more but exercising less; working harder but sleeping less; and drinking more high calorie beverages but less water.” The former president himself, in an article co-authored with Nancy Brown of the American Heart Association, noted as positive the fact children are “drinking less sugar-sweetened beverages.”
The Clinton Foundation presents itself as an advocate for health and wellness through disease prevention—and yet a growing body of research suggests sugar is a primary culprit behind obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Why then, would the Clinton Foundation be honoring a company that sells products known to cause these diseases?
I believe the answer is simple: As of September 2015, Coca-Cola is reported to have donated between $5,000,001 and $10,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Similarly, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette linked Coca-Cola and the Clinton Foundation to no less than 32 joint initiatives.
You can call Big Soda advertising art, but there’s no artistry here. If you happen to catch a glimpse of the Clinton Foundation’s glorification of America’s most popular sugar drink, consider it a perfect display of the corruption and hypocrisy that comes with Big Soda dollars.
I see a lot of programs online with tough-guy inspired themes. These plans promise to turn you into a lion, with names like tactical this or operator that. But as I said at the recent Strength Matters Summit in the UK – everybody wants to be a lion until it’s time to do lion shit.
