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Alix Barth: How did anorexia start for you, and what did you learn through that process?

By admin on August 11, 2022

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24022980/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/191970/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]Alix Barth is the Owner/Founder of Alix Barth Nutrition, where she helps adults and teens make peace with food and their body image and teach them how to eat for the rest of their lives. Alix battled with anorexia through most of her teenage and young adult years. Through this she gained a significant amount of experience in nutrition and discovered how important our relationship with food and our body is to our overall health. Alix was a competitive triathlete for 6 years and also works with athletes in various sports – helping them with their nutrition, specifically for their sport and athletic goals. Alix’s passion is to educate and pour her heart into each and every client. Her goal as a Nutritionist is to teach adults and teens how to eat for the rest of their lives and do so in a mind and body they are kind to and enjoy being in!

In episode 281 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Alix chose Texas Tech, how anorexia started for her and what she learned in that process, how nutrition is different for athletes versus normal folks, why diets don’t work, ways to get energy in the afternoon hours, what is the anti-inflammatory way of eating, what we should do if we get flooded with negative talk either from the mirror or from comparing ourselves to others on social media, recipes that will make this nutrition process easier for college students, and how you can create supportive environment for sustained success with nutrition. Enjoy!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzvWhJc7WA

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Cecil Harris: Would ‘King Richard’ have done the same thing Will Smith did to defend his family?

By admin on March 29, 2022

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/22615520/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/191970/” height=”90″ width=”100%” placement=”top” theme=”custom”]Our next guest is Cecil Harris, a sports journalist who has covered major tennis events including the US Open and the Women’s Tennis Association Championships in New York. He has written for the NY Times, the Associated Press, and USA Today. He is the author of several books, including “Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters” and “Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution”. In Will Smith’s Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a tearful Smith, 53, referenced Richard Williams, calling him “a fierce defender of his family. “Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams,” Smith said. “But love will make you do crazy things.” I wondered if this was really true.

In episode 227 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, I ask Cecil Harris about the Will Smith slap of Chris Rock and whether “King Richard’ Williams would have done the same thing to defend his family. We find out why Cecil chose Fordham University, how Venus and Serena Williams revolutionized tennis and inspired generations of female tennis players, why top black players still underrepresented in the world of tennis, details on the under-reported scandal of why no African American umpire has officiated a US Open men’s or women’s final since 1993, how we can remove the elitist attitude that sometime persists in the tennis community, whether Simone Biles made the right move with her mental health considering she knew the pressures of being an Olympic Athlete, why that story went viral but we heard much less about Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open, whether there is a generational divide when we talk about athletes and their mental health, why the Yankees so dominant in the late 90’s but have struggled to get back to that spot in the 21st century, the professional struggles that have characterized the entry of African-American hockey players into the mostly white sport, and Cecil’s favorite restaurants in Yonkers.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI8HS68p8lM

Fraternity/Sorority

Hank Nuwer: Hazing History in Athletics

By admin on May 18, 2020

Welcome to our third special episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank, and this episode is all about hazing in athletics. Our co-host each Sunday is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader, and retiring longtime Alpha Lambda Delta chapter adviser at Franklin College. Hank Nuwer discusses who was the first well-known athlete to die in a hazing incident, the significance of Nolte McElroy’s death at Texas, whether athletic hazing differs from, say, fraternity hazing or class hazing in some way, whether there any deaths in which male and female athletes played a part, the time when a judge made Hank work with the hazers instead of sending them to jail, how Hank actually reenacted Nick Haben’s death to understand it, whether any bystanders or the Western Illinois school employees could have saved Nick’s life, and other cases of athletic hazing we should know about. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_q3RfGZwUY