CrossFit: Health, Fitness, Science (Selections)

This Is Your Brain on CrossFit — How Functional Fitness and Intensity Improve Neural Function

How exactly does neurological-rehabilitation-meets-CrossFit-training work? It’s all about neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to adapt on a neurological level to its environment and our own behavior; to literally change its structure in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

School Principal Tackles Youth Health Crisis

The kids are not all right. Globally, more than 340 million youth aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. By 2020, so were nearly 40 million children under 5. Unfortunately, that’s not the only problem.

Disease Pays the Fees

Dr. Stephen Schimpff calls it the paradox of American medicine. “We have really well-trained, well-educated providers. We are the world’s envy for biomedical research. We’ve got excellent pharmaceutical (and) biotechnology companies and diagnostics (tools). But the paradox is on the other hand we have a terribly dysfunctional health-care delivery system.”

Soda, Death and Taxes

With treatment of chronic disease eating up health-care budgets, elected officials consider excise taxes to reduce consumption of harmful sugary beverages.

Sugar and Diabetes: Myths and Misleadings

Despite the evidence implicating sugar in the global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes, trusted authorities like the ADA have been reticent to shift their focuses from obesity to sugar as a primary cause of the disease.

Loneliness Is Making You Sick. CrossFit Can Help.

We live in the golden age of connectedness. Twenty-three billion text messages are sent worldwide daily; 333 billion emails; 4.8 billion users spend an average of two hours and 24 minutes on social media each day. Yet, we’re lonelier than ever.

Sickly Sweet

San Francisco becomes the first city to require warning labels on soda while local university seeks long-term deal to put sugary beverages in front of students.

Sweet and Low

In 2013, the average American consumed approximately 22 teaspoons of caloric sweeteners per day, according to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. Meanwhile, an estimated 350 million people suffer from depression worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, which dubs depression the world’s “leading cause of disability.”

How To Thrive Past 75: Maintaining Health and Quality of Life With Age

I can appreciate Ezekiel Emanuel’s desire for a gentle death, one without the traumas of aggressive treatments or the gloom of the nursing home. But I think that is possible well past 75 — and after a long life lived well.

Cancer, Carbs and Controversy

Drs. Thomas Seyfried, Eugene Fine explain how cancer is affected by sugar, insulin and inflammation.

Science: Rest When You’re Dead

Modern-day physicians are more likely to prescribe activity over rest. But the concept has yet to trickle down to the general population, most of whom are more likely to hit the couch than the gym when discomfort strikes.