WARNING – Cereal Scam!
Below is a short but heated e mail I got this morning from Mike Geary about the LIES that we are told about so-called “health foods” in the supermarket. I think Mike is spot-on, in fact I posted the image below on my Facebook profile 3 weeks ago with the comment, “Why Most Kids Are Sick, Sad, Fat And Stupid.”
By the way, Mike is a Certified Nutrition Specialist and Co-Author of The Fat Burning Kitchen. and The Truth About Abs.
I was walking through the grocery store the other day, and as I strolled through the cereal isle, I noticed a couple different boxes of “sugar cereals” that had claims on them about being healthy for kids.
This is quite shocking and I’m not even sure how this is legal!
One example of these ludicrous (in one newsletter last year I misspelled this word as “ludacris” and got all sorts of comments about rappers…too funny!) — anyway, one of these ludicrous cereal boxes claimed this on it’s label:
“Improves your kids immune system”
I won’t mention the exact brand and type, but this was one of those sugar cereals with about 8 different bright artificial colors. The main ingredient was SUGAR! and then refined corn or wheat, which is no better for you than sugar.
How can it be legal for these slimy cereal companies to make health claims about it being “good for kids immune system”?!? This is insane.
Are they trying to say that a product that is 70% refined sugar and artificial colors, with some added hydrogenated oils is good for kids immune systems!
There appears to be a loophole in that if they simply add some antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin C and E to the sugar cereal, they can somehow claim that it is “good for kids immune systems”.
I don’t know how they get away with it, but it seems sleezy to me.
As a subsriber to my newsletter, I know you’d never fall for label claims that are this blatantly deceiving.
However, I’m willing to bet that the label claims on many foods cause you confusion about what’s really healthy and what’s not… types of foods that have been more cleverly marketed as health foods over the years like “whole grain” bread, skim milk, soy foods, low-cal frozen dinners, and others.
Don’t fall for it!
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Categories: Guest Authors, Mike Geary, Recent Posts, Strong Body, Strong Food Tags: 6 pack abs, abdominals, abs, children, fat burning, fat loss, food, nutrition
Are these children just bad?
I’m often asked:
“When is the right time for my young athlete to begin lifting weights?”
Well, lets pretend that we are in the year 1832 and America’s economy still depends heavily on farmers and agriculture.
Young men (9-14 years old) at this time had to help ‘Pop’ with chores around the barn (or the horse whip would do some talkin’) – and more than likely his list of chores would include:
1. Bailing Hay (Squats & Twist)
2. Transporting buckets of milk (Farmers Carries)
3. Loading Trucks (Dead Lifts, Push Presses)
4. Pushing Stubborn Mules (Bench Press)
So, it would be safe to say that young men “lifted weights” since the 1800′s (and beyond) without any problems.
The issue today is that most kids never do any “Work” and they are plain ol’ weak. Most adults want to blame the tee-vee or Nintendo Wii – I say it’s a lack of creativity and understanding on the part of the parents. I especially love the parents that want their little fatties to lose weight but they, themselves are 73lbs. overweight and have jaundiced eyes with a side order of arm acne (but that’s a story for another post).
Below is my list of the best exercises for young weaklings, also you will find the exact training template that I am currently using with the group of young athletes that are training at my gym (I call these kids “Young Guns”:
1. Bodyweight Squats
2. Bodyweight Lunges
3. Bodyweight Push Ups
4. Bodyweight Chin Ups
5. Bodyweight Step Ups
6. Conditioning Games (Tag, Bear Crawls, Tree Climbing)
7. Chasing Squirrels
8. Getting Chased by hungry dogs
9. Climbing trees
10. Pulling little girls pony tails
11. Throwing rocks at nasty neighbors windows
12. Hop Scotch
13. School Yard Brawls
“Young Gunz” Training Template (June 2008)
Day 1 -
1. Dynamic Flexibility
2. Sandbag Circuit (squats, lunges, step ups & chin ups)
3. Prowler Push
4. 3 Way Core Holds
Day 2 -
1. Dynamic Flexibility
2. 22″ Box Jumps (fwd & lat)
3. Fwd & Bkwd Sled Drags
4. DB Farmers Carries
Day 3 -
1. Dynamic Flexibility
2. Triple Jumps
3. Tire Flips
4. Wheel Barrels
5. Speed Ladders
What do you want? What are you willing to do?
Coach Elliott “The Strength Coach”
We put your young punks to WORK!
http://www.StrengthCamp.com/athletes.htm
Categories: Strength and Conditioning for Sports, Youth Training Tags: children, weight training for kids, Youth Training
