Loading ...Tom Brady Steps up As Role Model for Youths and Athletes, Speaking Out Against Junk Food Industry
By Dr. Mercola
If you’ve paid attention to the news lately, you’re probably aware of the shockwaves caused by four-time Super Bowl champion and all-star quarterback Tom Brady, who in a recent interview called out Coca-Cola and Frosted Flakes as “poison.”
As noted by the Organic Consumers Association,1 “Brady may have just done more good for kids, and more damage to Big Food, than we could accomplish in months.”
Brady Speaks Out Against Food Industry Brainwashing
Brady’s interview2 with Massachusetts radio station WEEI revolved around his win over the Cowboys, but then they began discussing the recent Boston Magazine story3 on his body coach and business partner Alex Guerrero.
In 2004, Guerrero was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission for claiming his Supreme Greens could effectively treat everything from diabetes and obesity to cancer and AIDS.
Brady defended Guerrero, with whom he started the TB12 Sports Therapy Center,4 and then launched into his views on processed junk food and soda, saying:
“I think we’ve been lied to by a lot of food companies over the years, by a lot of beverage companies over the years. But we still [believe] it… We believe that Frosted Flakes is a food…
You’ll probably go out and drink Coca-Cola and think ‘Oh yeah, that’s no problem.’ Why? Because they pay lots of money for advertisements to think that you should drink Coca-Cola for a living…
I totally disagree with that. And when people do that, I think that’s quackery. And the fact that they can sell that to kids? I mean, that’s poison for kids…
When you go to the Super Bowl, who are the sponsors? That’s the education that we get. That’s what we get brainwashed to believe; that all these things are just normal food groups, and this is what you should eat.”
Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure…
Brady also expresses his views on preventive and holistic medicine, saying:
“Our approach to medicine is, let’s wait until you get sick. Wait until you get hurt, and then we’ll treat you. Well, how about trying to find ways to prevent that from even happening?
I think it’s a much better approach to medicine… Now you guys may think I’m full of crap, but I’m the proof, what you see on the field.”
Indeed, Brady blew out his knee in 2008, and claims the only thing that saved his career were the holistic health strategies taught by Guerrero. According to Brady:
“I had doctors with the highest and best education in our country tell me that I wouldn’t be able to play football again, that I would need multiple surgeries on my knee for my staph infection, that I would need a new ALC, a new MCL, and that I wouldn’t be able to play with my kids when I’m older.
Of course, I go back the next year and we win Comeback Player of the Year. I follow the next season and we win the MVP of the year… I’ve chosen a different approach, and that’s what I’m providing to other athletes.”