[WATCH]: CrossFit - Simple Nutrition: Part 4 (Journal Preview)

CrossFit Journal Preview (journal.crossfit.com). CrossFit trainer EC Synkowski offers practical nutrition information to help with day-to-day choices. In Part 4, she talks to a group at CrossFit Hingham about sugar, oils, alcohol and diary. "Typically, wherever we see diseases of modern civilization—obesity, heart disease, cancer—we also see a consumption of sugar," she explains. "So that's why we want it to be generally eliminated from your diet." In other words, don't make it a staple. Next up are oils, including those of the soybean, canola and safflower variety. "They are high in polyunsaturated fats and specifically the ones we don't want ... the omega-6 polyunsaturated fats," Synkowski says. To state the obvious, alcohol

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