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Americans Increasingly Too Weak, Not Just Too Fat, To Serve
Rapidly increasing numbers of Army recruits have failed to meet entry-level fitness standards. This trend occurred even as fewer and fewer Americans met the standards required to become recruits. Last...
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Malaysian Government Official Personally Profited From Soda-Government...
17.5 percent of adult Malaysians suffer from diabetes. That rate vastly exceeds the U.S.’s 11.5 percent diabetes prevalence. And Malaysia’s diabetes rate has more than doubled since 1996. How did...
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David Ludwig Critiques Tee Siong’s Nestlé-Funded Sugary Drink Study
Dr. David Ludwig, MD, professor of Nutrition and professor of Pediatrics at Harvard University. Last week we examined Malaysia’s Type 2 diabetes epidemic and how the junk food industry has captured the...
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Rosenthal’s ‘American Sickness’ Ignores Why We’re Sick
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to present this guest post by Jason Cooper, RN, co-owner of CrossFit Enoch. Republicans and Democrats alike talk about saving us. They talk about providing “affordable...
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Coke’s Covering Up Payments to CDC and NIH Foundations
In 2015, Anahad O’Connor at the New York Times exposed Coca-Cola’s Global Energy Balance Network, a propaganda effort that used Coke-funded scientists to deny the link between nutrition and obesity. In...
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How America’s Soda Industry Conquered China’s Public Health Agency
Editor’s Note: Derek Fields and Russ Greene collaborated on this piece. Soda Advocacy Groups Exploit the Nonprofit Loophole Wenhua Zhao and Junshi Chen both serve as preeminent public health officials...
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The Dutch CrossFit Study, or How to Correctly Cite Injury Data
Photo: Derek Kusmus, CrossFit Powerhouse 040,Netherlands The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine recently published a study entitled “Injury Incidence and Patterns Among Dutch CrossFit Athletes.”...
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Nutrition Gets an F, Too, by Vik Khanna
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Vik Khanna. Last summer, I lambasted the fitness industry on this blog for being an utter failure at improving anything except its bottom...
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Why Giving up My Dietitian’s License Was the Healthy Choice
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to present this guest post by Cassie Bjork, RD, former LD, and founder of Cassie.net (formerly DietitianCassie.com). Cassie is a globally recognized industry leader in...
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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Pro-Junk Food, Anti-Free Speech
Editor’s Note: Russ Greene wrote the first draft, and Russell Berger contributed to this piece. Having stopped fitness licensure in its tracks, the CrossFit community is turning its sights to...
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The Food Industry Lobby is Collapsing, Is Its “Science” Institute Next?
“We do not want to be involved in advocacy-led studies that so often, and mostly for the right reasons, have been criticized.” —Mars, Inc. after announcing its planned departure from the International...
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The American Council on Exercise: Nonprofit Authority or Business Scheme?
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this anonymous guest submission. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) states on its website, “ACE serves as America’s Authority on Fitness.” ACE appears to be...
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Is a DOD Official Using Her Position to Promote Civilian Certification...
Patricia Deuster. Should federal officials be allowed to interfere with commercial enterprises using their government titles? Ought they be able to promote some non-governmental organizations and...
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The American Council on Exercise Either Misled Consumers or It Misled Consumers
Last month we reported on an investigation into the American Council on Exercise’s Medical Exercise Specialist certification. A complaint with the National Commission on Certifying Agencies (NCCA)...
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“There Is No Serious Argument Available”– CrossFit Wins Favorable Ruling vs....
CrossFit Inc. sued Richard Beddie for defamation. Four years ago, New Zealand exercise industry lobbyist Richard Beddie made several false claims about CrossFit affiliates and trainers, among them that...
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