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No, Not Everyone Knows How Bad Soda Is

February 26, 2016 by Russ Greene

CrossFit has warned against consuming too much junk food since its founding. Only in the past few years, however, has CrossFit Inc. directly targeted junk food producers. You may have seen CrossFit.com or CrossFit’s social media outlets post information about how PepsiCo and Coca-Cola influence health organizations. These posts attract controversy. Some of the responses are absurd and easily dismissible (what does food have to do with fitness? Stick to exercise). On the other hand, some commenters sincerely express their consternation about why CrossFit has a problem with Big Soda. Two […]

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Kahn-man? Richard Kahn Defends the ABA

February 24, 2016 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by our colleague Derek Fields. Many readers may not be aware that the American Beverage Association, along with the California Retailers Association and the California State Outdoor Advertising Association, is involved in an ongoing lawsuit against the City of San Francisco. The ABA and their friends sued the city last July over a city ordinance that would ban soda advertising on city property and would require a warning label much […]

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CrossFit, Injury, and Risk: A Paradigm Shift

February 17, 2016 by Russell Berger

“Your diabetes has been cured with lifestyle regimen” Says Dr. Harry Isaacson from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He’s speaking to his patient, Pete Katz. After following CrossFit’s approach to nutrition and fitness through his local affiliate, CrossFit Painesville, Katz lost weight, cured his Type 2 Diabetes, and no longer suffers from sleep apnea or anxiety. Julie Foucher’s full interview with Dr. Isaacson and Katz can be seen here. This account is not unique. Our affiliates regularly report stories of clients who have been cured of conditions such […]

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Coke Tries to Back Away from “Exercise is Medicine”

February 15, 2016 by Russ Greene

The American College of Sports Medicine has claimed that Coca-Cola will no longer fund “Exercise is Medicine.” In addition, Coca-Cola has gone missing from the ACSM’s sponsor section. The Coke-ACSM partnership, nearly a decade old, may be ending. You can’t say we didn’t warn you. This past weekend the American College of Sports Medicine released a statement proclaiming, EIM also announced that the funding sponsorship with The Coca-Cola Company is complete … The transition concludes Coke’s funding relationship with ACSM and the EIM Global Center. Nonetheless, ACSM pledges that EIM will proceed without […]

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Nanette Barragan Speaks Up Against Isadore Hall

February 12, 2016 by Russ Greene

California State Senator Isadore Hall enjoys substantial funding from the alcohol, tobacco and soda industries. Hall’s district includes some of the less prosperous areas of Southern California, including Carson, Compton, Long Beach, and Inglewood. And his constituents suffer disproportionately from obesity and diabetes.  Hall has blocked progress towards an overwhelmingly popular warning label on sugar-sweetened beverages. CrossFit supported this warning label bill through its Crush Big Soda campaign. To block the bill’s progress, Hall didn’t have to vote against the warning label bill; he simply had to […]

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Thank You For Sipping: Debunking Beverage Propaganda

February 10, 2016 by Russ Greene

The American Beverage Association spends substantial time and money trying to convince people there’s no relationship between soda and disease. It’s not working very well. One glimpse at the ABA’s Facebook page will show you how few are interested in ABA propaganda. And soda regulation is now one of the hottest topics of debate across the country, not to mention Mexico and the UK. That said, it can be amusing to analyze the ABA’s sophistry. Take the ABA’s recent attempt to acquit Coca-Cola and Pepsi:  […]

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Coca-Cola Fudges “Transparency” Numbers

February 8, 2016 by Russ Greene

Editor’s Note: Please see the update at the bottom. Coca-Cola has made significant, unexplained changes to its scientific funding list. The soda company has dramatically increased the amounts declared to some organizations while lowering or entirely removing other payments and organizations. These changes affected payments from 2010-2015. And Coca-Cola made these changes without a single explanatory note on the site. CrossFit Inc.’s Derek Fields compiled all of the changes that Coca-Cola made in this spreadsheet. If you would like to see the differences firsthand, you can examine […]

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