Having said that, who knows what Brady’s perspective on the field was just after the game? There may have been such a mob around Nick Foles that Brady felt he couldn’t get to him even if he tried. I felt Brady showed quite a bit of class in the post-game interview. He spoke well of the Eagles and admitted frankly that he failed to make a couple of plays that he should have made. He didn’t blame the refs or his teammates or coaching errors, he just sucked it up and admitted that it sucked to lose. Like Shagnasty said above, Brady puts a lot of pressure on himself and when the Patriots lose he feels like he’s let down all the fans he’s representing when he’s on the field. He even says as much in the Facebook series I linked to above.
To be a professional athlete you have to be super competitive. I can imagine these guys are absolutely devastated after a loss, and even more so after losing the championship. I don’t blame him one bit for staying quiet and shuffling off to the locker room early.
His bullshit diet is pretty infuriating to me though. But other than that, I’m sure he’s a great guy.
No iodized salt! Why, because iodine deficiency, which affects 2 BILLION PEOPLE worldwide causes thyroid problems and intellectual and developmental disabilities? Because studies showed that adding it to salt raised average IQs by 15 points in deficient areas of the USA and by 3.5 points overall? At a current cost of just over a dollar per ton of salt?
Do you people want your children to be morons? Because this is how you get morons.
Well, lemme tell ya what happened after I started eating a diet like Brady’s as of last Sept 4.
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The headaches I’ve been getting for the last ten years and which have been occurring daily the last couple years completely disappeared, immediately. Like the very next day.[/ul]
[ul]On day 4, I began waking up half an hour before my alarm, clear-headed and feeling fine as opposed to thick-headed and groggy for several hours like I have since my teens.[/ul]
[ul]I have athsma and have used an albuterol inhaler multiple times a day for years. My inhaler use has increasingly diminished and now I never have to use it at all.[/ul]
[ul]My energy level, alertness, and overall sense of physical well-being have increased.[/ul]
Brady’s diet was originally designed by his body coach Alex Guerrero, dismissed by some as a quack but hailed by others for working miracles with their injuries. The diet is geared toward eating alkaline forming foods and minimizing acid forming foods. There is a lot of opinion out there that the alkaline diet is tomfoolery (pardon), and I think when looked at from the perspective of it’s detractors this is probably correct. However I also think that such a diet is indeed very healthy and beneficial even though the underlying reason for it may be faulty or misunderstood. Guerrero also suggests a healthy compliment of supplements as an adjunct to the diet in order to assure the body gets all the nutrients it needs to be healthy, and Brady himself takes a considerable number of supplements for that reason.
The guy is forty years old and plays like he’s twenty-five, and he claims to be pain free except for the bumps and bruises that come from contact on the field. Utterly remarkable for a guy who’s been playing football from childhood and professional ball for 18 years, including an extra two years worth of games due to the number of post-season games he’s played.
So I’d suggest to anyone wanting to be maximally healthy that they at least give a Brady-style diet a try for a month or so to see how it works for them. To dismiss it out of hand because it sounds restrictive or because naysayers belittle it is self-defeating. You’ll find out soon enough if it lives up to its hype, and you can always go back to your old way of eating if it doesn’t.
Oh, yeah, I’ve also lost 20 pounds and without trying.
I should also say that none of these benefits were expected. I only wanted to start eating healthily and be as youthful as possible for as long as possible. These other goodies have come as a complete surprise.
That’s pretty classy, IMO. If his wife is that classy, I have a hard time believing that she’d marry an arrogant asshole; it’s not like she needs his income or anything.
So, the premise of the diet is that our taste buds have evolved to make sure we eat the least healthy diet possible? There’s a reason why bitter foods taste much worse than sour ones.
While it’s good to see that Brady’s not a douche, I just hate the Patriots way too much to become a fan of the guy. However, even as a Steelers fan, I loathe Rapistberger and cannot wait until he retires. (I don’t know if the rape allegations are true, but several family members of mine have had run-ins with the guy, and all of them have said he’s a complete jagoff. In fact, he has a reputation of being an arrogant douchebag)
(I have to defend Sidney Crosby – during the 2009 Stanley Cup, he got pulled away by reporters pretty much immediately and didn’t get a chance to shake everyone’s hand, but he did go over towards the end.)
No, the premise has nothing to do with the way foods taste at all. And the focus is on alkaline-forming and acid-forming foods, the formation of which takes place after the food is ingested. It has nothing to do with how they taste. Steak, for example, is an acid-forming food. So are rice, oats and bread. Brady’s diet focuses mostly on fresh vegetables and limits meats, dairy, grain products, and sugar. Pretty much like the ‘eat clean’ diet but a little more restrictive. It’s not really that much of a stretch for people who’ve been eating healthy already.
mikecurtis, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Stop with the ignorance.
“Before the 1920s, iodine deficiency was common in the Great Lakes, Appalachian, and Northwestern U.S. regions and in most of Canada. Treatment of iodine deficiency by the introduction of iodized salt has virtually eliminated the “goiter belt” in these areas. However, many other parts of the world do not have enough iodine available through their diet and iodine deficiency continues to be an important public health problem globally. Approximately 40% of the world’s population remains at risk for iodine deficiency.”
and
“Iodine deficiency resulting in goiter occurs in 187 million people globally as of 2010 (2.7% of the population). It resulted in 2700 deaths in 2013 up from 2100 deaths in 1990.”
And from the National Institute for Health;
“Iodine Deficiency Disorders are known to be a significant public health problem in 118 countries. At least 1,572 million people worldwide are estimated to be at risk of IDD i.e. those who live in areas where iodine deficiency is prevalent (total goiter rates above 5%), and at least 655 million of these are considered to be affected by goiter. Most of these are in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, but large parts of Europe are also vulnerable.”
I see your point, and I don’t argue that Brady is a great quarterback. There was something in another thread not too long ago though, and someone made the point with all the rule changes and the way quarterbacks are “protected” these days, does he really stand up against some of the older guys. I’m sorry I have no idea what thread it was in or who the poster was. Again though, I see what you mean.
The benefits of iodine are not in dispute. neither is the fact that iodized salt is a cheap and effective way of introducing iodine into a diet. You, however, made the breathless claim that removing iodized salt from ones diet would produce a race of morons. Removing iodized salt from a diet does not jeopardize one’s access to iodine. There are plenty of options to get this important mineral. And, since the American diet is already overly rich in sodium (which has its own health implications) removing salt is a benefit.
Because of my father’s problems with digestion and nutrition (not to mention a poorly functioning thyroid gland), I have spent much time in consultation with doctors, and nutritionists, and I know way more than I ever wanted to about what is and is not needed for proper nutrition and the ins and outs of the so called typical American diet. I don’t pretend to know about world wide nutritional deficiencies, but if you’re an American and you want to cut salt from your diet, it will probably be a benefit to you.