This annoyed me. It’s an article by Rip Esselstyn on the Huffington Post with the obnoxious link headline: Natural Steroids For Athletes: Eat Your Vegetables.
I agree that an athlete’s best friend is a healthy diet rich in nutrients. And even better is a plant-based diet, as ‘Rip’ suggests. But to compare vegetables and healthy foods to steroids seems a bit far reaching to me.
Spinning the Story on Veggies. Do you really need to spin the idea of a plant-based diet so much by pulling in the biggest sports news story-steroids?
I’d like to think that athletes eat healthy foods by choice, not because they are really weighing their options of…
Hmm….carrots or steroid shot, spinach or steroid pill? Hmm… let me think…
Come on. Stick to the straight news. You don’t need to SPIN the facts about the positive benefits of eating your vegetables.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rip-esselstyn/attention-athletes-eat-yo_b_170910.html
Well, they’re not saying veggies are like steroids in that they’re tainted, illegal, and reputation-destroying.
But if they’re promoting veggies as the “new” steroid, where athletes should be looking to boost performance to levels they only dreamed of achieving… well, what’s wrong with that? The point is that veggies are good. Picking at people over words like that just widens the divide that lets omnivores see us as argumentative and no fun.
DJ,
Yes, it just innocently annoyed me that he spun our beloved veggies into a steroids story! I’m sure Rip knows my commentary is in jest and not to be taken in a hurtful way.
Thanks for the comment,
Kathy
Mark,
To clarify- the headline link did indeed say, as I posted, “Natural Steroids For Athletes: Eat Your Vegetables.” I did not say that the title of the article said that. This link headline on another page was what caught my eye, it was a catchy hook to get my traffic though!
It was a great article-in its message. It was the comparing of veggies and steroids that poked me the wrong way. In my book, they don’t compare at all.
Thanks for the feedback-it’s always appreciated,
Kathy
Yeah, but the actual article has the title: “Attention Athletes: Eat Your Vegetables” and Rip clearly (a) says you don’t need steroids and (b) does a fine summation of a plant-based diet for atheletes.
Personally, and I’m biased, delighted to see a well-written article about the topic in one of the most visited websites on the Internet.
What’s not to like?
Best, Mark
I get what they’re trying to say, but it is pretty annoying.
Typical Huffington post link. They are the masters of spin.