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Muhtar Meets Pablo: Laundering Coke Dollars
Coke CEO Muhtar Kent has something in common with Pablo Escobar: money laundering. As Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s reputations approach Big Tobacco levels, the soda industry faces a dilemma. How can it...
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The SNAP Festival of Corporate Hypocrisy
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by our colleague Derek Fields. There is no coherent way to justify buying poor people billions of dollars worth of sweetened beverages with...
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Ohio State University’s Dr. Kraemer Fails to Disclose Advocare Funding
Dr. Kraemer is listed by Advocare as a paid advisor. Why did he fail to declare this on a paper he authored that studied Advocare products? Ohio State University can’t seem to catch a break. Four years...
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Why “Do Whatever You Like” is Horrible Exercise Advice
Journalists, academics (soda-sullied and otherwise), celebrity trainers and other members of the nudging class agree: You should move more. But how? The nudgers don’t seem to think that detail matters...
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Coca-Cola Buckles to Pressure, Curtails “Science” Payments
Coca-Cola’s most recent round of funding disclosures shows the company has dramatically cut back on its monetary contributions to health and fitness-related endeavors. It cut its funding for these...
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CrossFit’s Attempted Comment on the National Physical Activity Guidelines
Soda-funded Russell Pate is in charge of the Activity Guidelines’s child health sub-committee. CrossFit Inc. has attempted to issue a public comment on the U.S. federal government’s upcoming 2018...
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Breakdown of The NY Post’s Latest CrossFit Hit Piece
When I first saw the New York Post article pictured above, my first thought was that it was likely an older article someone had reposted from around 2013, a time when sensational headlines about...
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#CrushBigSoda: Why CrossFit Supports Soda Warning Labels
If you follow CrossFit on social media, you know we support SB 300, California’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act. And you also know that not everyone agrees with this position. Debate...
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PubMed Begins Flagging Conflicted Research: Coke Science Now Searchable
Good news for public health; bad news for the International Life Sciences Institute: PubMed will now flag all new papers declaring conflicts of interest. As part of the National Library of Medicine,...
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What UConn Internal Emails Reveal About The Korey Stringer Institute
Not long ago I received a response from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request I sent to the University of Connecticut. The institution is the home of the Gatorade-founded Korey Stringer Institute...
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Did the PepsiCo Foundation Direct Donations to Fight Legislation?
Editor’s Note: Our colleague Derek Fields co-authored this piece with Russ Greene. PepsiCo CEO and Chairman Indra Nooyi. The PepsiCo Foundation’s paperwork is notoriously indecipherable, but we have...
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Instagram’s Lying to You About #Basic
Your favorite athlete’s everyday life, according to Instagram: Wake up, enjoy @sponsor-brand coffee and @sponsor-brand supplements, PR my snatch by 25 lb. thanks to @weightliftingcoach, lunch break...
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Too Much Volume or Not Enough Fitness?
It seems like whenever a CrossFit.com workout appears with more than 50 repetitions of a single movement, the Facebook physiologists show up. They’re the ones commenting “Too much volume,”...
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Food Industry Tells Kids Sugar is Healthy via Kidnetic.com
Editor’s Note: Adapted from text the Department of Health and Human Services blocked us from submitting to its public comments section. Diabetes is skyrocketing in kids. A recent analysis of insurance...
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#FakeNews in Forbes, the Atlantic and USA Today
Over the past decade, Americans have increasingly begun to doubt their country’s major institutions, including academia, the media and politicians. The problem is, these Americans’ concerns are...
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The CDC’s Deadly Cocktail: Corruption, Deception and Cover-ups
The CDC’s deadly cocktail of conflicted industry partnerships, misleading statements, and cover-ups threatens the health of all Americans. The CDC’s Diabetes Prevention Program is negligent at best....
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Why Periodization Doesn’t Work in CrossFit (And How You Should Prepare Instead)
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Fergus Connolly, the Performance & Operations Director for University of Michigan Football. Prior to joining UM, Connolly spent two...
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The Fitness Industry is a Public Health Failure
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Vik Khanna. If the fitness industry in America were a single commercial product, there’s a very good chance it would get hammered by the...
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Nutritionists Accuse CrossFit Trainers of Disagreeing with Nutritionists
Nutrition has become one of the internet’s most controversial topics, up there with race, gender and kipping pull-ups. Recently, the pro-vegan Netflix documentary called “What the Health” has denied...
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Amazon, Clintons and American Heart Association Sell High-Sugar “Healthier”...
Amazon, the Clinton Foundation, and the American Heart Association have partnered to sell high-sugar food to children. And they’re marketing this junk food as if it’s healthy. The Amazon-Clinton-AHA...
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