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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: benwood who wrote (119526)	10/7/2009 2:46:28 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

genetics is the major input for athletic performance. diet is huge, but it isn't enough to make john starks become a better basketball player than micheal jordan. it isn't about being better than the next guy, it is about improving yourself. the italian national basketball team that came from nowhere and won the silver medal in the 2004 olympics (they weren't supposed to make it out of the european trials) started eating an anti-inflammatory diet 6 months before the olympics. they trounced the american professionals. garmin finished 2nd at the tour de france - so they have done very, very well. i have no idea how lance's team deals with diet (good or bad), but they clearly had the genetic advantage with some real superstars on their team. garmin typically had regular guys who "surprised to the upside." who picked christian vande velde to come in 4th in 2008? exactly nobody. who picked bradley wiggins to come in 4th in 2009? exactly nobody. my cyclist friend thinks wiggins had to have been on drugs to perform so well - especially on climbs. this anti-inflammatory approach to eating is associated with many elite level athletes. the most prolific female swimmer in history learned these principles while swimming for stanford. you might know this, but jenny thompson was the swimmer passed by michael phelps for most medals and most gold medals in olympic history. dara torres won more medals as a 30 year old olympian than she had in her prior 3 olympics. this anti-inflammatory diet approach is associated with the two best female swimmers in history. the best fencer in the world, valentina vezzali is also a long time zoner. she is the only human in the history of the olympics to win three straight gold medals in fencing - her latest as a 38 year (a freaking 38 year old dominating the world in a reaction sport!). let's see if she goes for four in a row. the top triathlete olympic trial winners in both america and canada apply these anti-inflammatory principles, too. so does troy polamalu, steve finley, tyson chandler and world class trainer marv marinovich. in fact, if you don't eat this way, marv won't train you. not to mention manuel uribe, the world's former heaviest man at over 1200 lbs. he's lost well over 500 lbs and is healthy with normal blood pressure, cholesterol, TG/HDL ratios, triglycerides, etc. he'll be under 300 lbs in the next 4-5 years and set the world record for weight loss. or the sago mining disaster victim who applied dr. sears' anti-inflammatory technology (among other things) and made what the medical press called "a miraculous recovery." all his fellow miners died and he probably survived in a carbon monoxide poisoned environment longer than any known person in history - and he's living a pretty normal life right now.