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We continue to battle & fight the good fight with a MUST listen “WAR on SUGAR” episode of Krush Performance!

Based on recent research it does not look good and SUGAR is a major culprit!!
High SUGAR diets are bad – Sounds like common sense BUT where is the sense in this:
Increased risk of certain cancers
Increased risk if degenerative brain diseases
Obesity & Diabetes
And for Athletes reduced Sport Performance & Recovery. And there’s much much more…
The Cost to Health Care – could the strain of Obesity and Diabetes alone destroy every health care system on the planet?? According to a major news series in the Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, the unprecedented obesity rates are a “time bomb” of future burdens on health care systems but global efforts to reverse the epidemic are failing.

To give you some Perspective on Sugar Consumption. A historical report on sugar consumption found the following:
-In 1822, the average American ate the amount of sugar found in one of today’s 12-ounce sodas every 5 days.
-Now, we eat that much every 7 hours.
-In 1822 the we consumed 6.3 pounds per person per year
-Today some reports estimate that we are consuming as much as 150lbs/yr

Today to help us navigate and put together our Battle plan in our WAR on SUGAR we are joined by Krush favorite: Dr. Ann de Wees Allen, Chief Bio-Medical Officer for the Glycemic Research Institute in Washington DC

Opening Day is behind us and the MLB season is underway – We’re Talking Baseball.

We look at the “Annual Krush” list of teams & players to follow this season and why they are worthy of your interest. We will also use them as a reference point for performance in the sport.
I also talk with “Krush Favorite” Donovan Santas, the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the Blue Jays, about their new player performance program
And I’ll be joined by Jeff Passan, MLB columnist for Yahoo Sports & Author & of his new Book “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” that hit the shelves early April.

Pitching is the most valuable commodity in all of sport – the 30 Major League teams will spend more than $1.5 billion dollars on pitching this year – And believe me injury prevention is KING!!!
In one recent study that looked at injury trends in Major League Baseball from 1998-2015, it was found that collectively the 30 MLB teams on average spent over $423 million/year. And a staggering $7. 618 billion total over these 18 years. And nearly 39% of all surgeries occurred in the last 5 years – that’s $2.9 billion spent on injuries in the last 5 years!!!! Wow!!!

And when you consider that 25% of major league pitchers and 15% of minor league pitchers have had a surgery you get the idea that injury prevention is not just important it is CRITICAL to winning & losing!  In fact if you look back on recent history there were more Tommy John surgeries in 2014 than the entire decade of the 1990’s!

So as we learn more, become smarter and understand more about athlete development and performance along with the amount of money being spent on players you would think we would be doing much better at keeping players healthy. But the injury rates continue to sky rocket as do the salaries & pay rolls.
This season, the average salary in Major League Baseball will hit $4.4 million.
There is a record 127 major league players earning $10 million or more this year – with The Dodger’s lefty Clayton Kershaw earning the leagues highest salary at $33million.
And according to the USA Today numbers, MLB will have 36 players earning more than $20millon this season.

The Dodgers and Yankees are the only two teams that have pay rolls over $200 million this season but here is an interesting thing. According to one report the Dodgers will spend $113 million on players on the DL, former players now playing for other teams and key players in the minor leagues – leaving only $146 million to spend on their active roster – so payroll numbers can be deceiving.
Regardless – the Dodgers will spend more on players who are not playing for them, than 14 other teams will spend on their entire payrolls!

So if you have a young athlete in the family – you may want to start encouraging an interest in baseball & to be more precise –Pitching.
I always say “It’s great work if you can get it.”

If you have any questions or comments, ideas for future shows get to us at KrushPerformance.com
Thanks for tuning in.
Jeff

In 2014 Macleans Magazine ran a powerful article that rocked the sugar industry it was titled “Death by Sugar: How the sweet killer is fuelling the biggest health crisis of our time.”

Since then it has been all out war as research has linked excess sugar consumption to brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer & recently lung cancer, reduced testosterone and of course obesity and diabetes – for these last two the numbers are beyond scary!

Laura Swim, Nutrition Manager for Fresh Fit Foods joins us to wade through the numbers and look at solutions and options. And, we discuss World Health Day.
The theme for this year is Beat Diabetes. The World Health Organization says Westerners need to SLASH SUGAR intake by Two-Thirds, to just between 6-12 teaspoons of sugars/day. 

In 1822 the average adult consumed 6.3 pounds of sugar per year – Today 107.7 pounds!! Some studies say as much as 150lbs! In 1822 it would have taken the average adult 5 days to consume the amount of sugar in one 12oz can of soda. TODAY we eat that much sugar every 7 HOURS!!!  It’s WAR!!!

Join me as I dedicate one show each month to the Krush #WARonSUGAR
and follow me on Twitter – @jeffkrush – for updates, facts and other cool stuff.
Jeff

I talk to Chris Woodward, 3rd base & Infield coach. I ask Woody about his transition from player to coach and how his experience playing the game and the coaches he had along the way are now helping him make some of the best infielders in the game even better.

I also talk with former Blue Jay GM and the Dodger’s new VP of Baseball Operations Alex Anthopoulos about his transition to the west coast and the difference between putting together a Team –
Rather than a collection of Talent.

In this episode of Krush Performance we look at injury prevention and innovative treatments.

The #1 priority in the world of sport performance is injury prevention and you only have to look at the numbers to see why.
From the Hundreds of Millions and even Billions spent & lost in professional sport to the alarming injury rates at the amateur and recreational levels, along with the stress sport injuries are putting on the health care system it is easy to understand why Prevention is so critical.

In this episode of Krush Performance:

•  We look at how and why injuries are happening
• Physiotherapist Linda Truong from the U of A joins us to look at the very latest in knee health and injury prevention.
• We talk innovative treatments with Dr. Terry DeFreitas from the Glen Sather Sport Medicine Clinic – could a Platelet Rich Plasma Injection (PRP) be a treatment for your soft tissue and over use injuries?
• And we’ll look at a fantastic program geared to prevent ACL injury and improve performance: The KneeFit Program with Physiotherapist Doug Gilro

And we’ll also look at some of the current injury statistics in this episode of Krush Performance.

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Make no mistake EVERY serious athlete will be touched by Performance Enhancing Drugs, directly or indirectly at some point in their careers.
They may have a team mate who uses or a competitor and at some point they may be faced with the moral, ethical decision…To Use or Not To Use?

In this episode of Krush Performance we continue our look into doping in sport?
We’ll discuss why athletes turn to the dark side- we’ll look at athlete support, resources and options.
And we’ll talk with a former professional player who lived through the question to use or not to use.

A very special episode of Krush Performance: Drugs in Sport

SO where are we at when it comes to doping in sport?

The topic is front and centre with the recent violations and suspensions in the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball
And Prior to that.. And in November… WADA and the IAAF dropped one of the biggest doping bombs Sport has ever seen with the Suspension of the Entire Russian Athletic Federation.
And now we’re seeing a push to legalize certain PED’s like Human growth hormone with high profile people like Marc Cuban leading the charge.
This week on Krush Performance we speak with David Homan the General Director of the World Anti Doping Agency and we’ll look into the slippery slope of legalizing HGH.

Nutrition is one of the top priorities for achieving Maximum Performance and this week we’re dedicating our entire show to talking nutrition with the experts from Revive Wellness Inc.
I’m officially kicking off my “War on Sugar” as we look at the downside of sweetness and the clouded world of artificial sweeteners
And we’ll look at how you can adjust your daily diet for top sport performance & performance in general – business, work, school whatever it is you do – the impact of nutrition is a Human Thing and it impacts all you do.
So if you’re a parent, coach or athlete send us your questions & comments and enjoy this episode as we talk Performance Nutrition

We look at the Horcoff situation and discuss PED’s in Sport & we are joined by Manny Schmidt,NHL agent from Link Management International, to look at the midway point of the hockey season and what players should be thinking at this point in the season.
We wrap up our conversation on the rising cost of hockey and sport in general.

And it’s Bell Let’s Talk Day – so let’s kick it off with this….Mental Illness is a serious topic and worthy of a day like today.
You would not think it but according to several reports athletes have a higher incident of depression than the general population.

We are joined by Paul Carson, VP Membership Development for Hockey Canada, as we take a look at some of Hockey Canada’s new initiatives as they work to keep kids safe, healthy and playing the game.

We are also joined with Dr. Jean Cote, Professor & Director of Queens University School of Kinesiology & Health Sciences, will join us to look at the many pit falls of early specialization in sport
When we look at talent development and skill acquisition it seems logical to totally immerse yourself in the endeavour you want to master but there is compelling research showing that early specialization – though it may appear to be beneficial in the short term can really limit top end performance.