5/31/24 Spotlight: Nick Tiller,PhD; Book Pick: The Cereal Heir; ASN-Build Up Mini Meet UP; 4 Things You Don't Want to Miss

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💡Spotlight: 2️⃣Questions for Nick Tiller, PhD

Connect with Nick: HOME | Nick Tiller (nbtiller.com)

Nick Tiller is an exercise scientist at Harbor-UCLA and author of “The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science” which was named one of Book Authority’s “Best Sports Science Books of All Time.”

1.How or why did you first become interested in exercise science?

“When I left school, I had no idea what I wanted to do professionally. An astute teacher asked me a simple question: “What do you enjoy?” I’d done sport from an early age and benefitted immensely from the insight it had given me into my mind and body. She asked me if I’d ever heard of sports science, and the rest is history. Since then, I’ve lived by the Mark Twain philosophy: “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I’ve passed on the advice to countless students of my own over the years.”

2. Often, we see athletes taking a variety of supplements.  Is there one in particular that you wish people would not take or at least were more cautious about? 

“There isn’t one supplement in particular, because the majority are ineffective or, at best, deliver modest results. More importantly, I’d like athletes to be more cognizant of the widespread problem of supplement contamination. The prevalence is as high as 15% (1 in 7), and tainted supplements are responsible for a large proportion of anti-doping violations. Even so-called “natural” and alternative therapies cannot be assumed to be safe. Athletes must be more skeptical and take responsibility for the substances they put in their bodies.”

From Nick Tiller: Ten Health and Wellness Buzzwords Every Skeptic Should Know | Skeptical Inquirer

📅Build Up Mini Meet Up at ASN

📚Book Nook - The Cereal Heir

What would it have been like to be fabulously wealthy in the early 20th century? To have multiple homes, designer gowns, priceless jewelry, know world leaders, royalty and US Presidents, own a private yacht so large you could loan it to the US Navy during World War II? This was the life of the heir to the Post Postum cereal (Grape Nuts, Postum) fortune, Marjorie Merriweather Post.

The invention of cereals as a breakfast option enabled (or at least were marketed to enable) women to spend less time in the kitchen preparing breakfast.

For a two-part podcast on Majorie Post listen to (or read) the History Chicks:

Part One: Episode 181: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part One (thehistorychicks.com)

Part Two: Episode 182: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part Two (thehistorychicks.com)

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4️⃣Things You Don’t Want to Miss

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