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Time of India
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ayesha Curry helps create kid-friendly healthy drink with Michelle Obama, says "I love this"
Image credit: Getty Images and Instagram Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and his wife Ayesha Curry had partnered with former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama last year to help change how kids and parents choose sweetened beverages. A year later, Ayesha has now shared her thoughts on their brand of healthy drinks — created to satisfy kids' cravings for taste without making parents worry about harmful health effects. Using her culinary experience, Ayesha has helped in creating the beverage that is not just tasty but also nutritious. Ayesha Curry collaborates with Michelle Obama to create a health-friendly beverage Ayesha Curry recently took to her Instagram Stories to offer a glimpse of her reaction to the child-friendly beverage. Speaking in the video, she says, 'I love that I now have the ability to create. I have a culinary background, and to be able to exercise that muscle and innovate some products that can truly change the game — I think it's going to be really special.' She is then seen tasting the drink and giving her instant reaction, 'I love this!' Image credit: Ayesha Curry/Instagram Stephen Curry and Ayesha, co-founders of the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, partnered with Michelle Obama's PLEZi Nutrition last year as investors and brand collaborators. The initiative aims to offer healthier food choices for children, amid growing concerns over the rising rate of childhood obesity in the U.S. Michelle Obama has long championed efforts to reduce childhood obesity, including her earlier Let's Move! campaign. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo Ayesha Curry has already been a part of a company, Back to the Roots, which inspires kids to grow their own food. In March, she took on the role of Chief Garden Officer in the company. Ayesha and Stephen are parents to four children — daughters Riley (12) and Ryan (9), and sons Canon (6) and Caius (1) — which explains their strong interest in promoting children's health and nutrition. Stephen also has his own whiskey brand and has been promoting it at events during the off-season. Also Read: 'I took that personally' — Stephen Curry's wife Ayesha Curry regretted her interview with Jada Pinkett Smith In a related moment back in April, Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard made headlines when he removed a Gatorade bottle from the press conference table, saying, 'Kids don't need that,' without elaborating further. He was widely praised on social media, though some questioned why he didn't openly talk about it much. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
The Citizen
20-06-2025
- Health
- The Citizen
Sukuma Lutsha to host its 5th Visceral Fat Challenge
SEBOKENG.- The Sukuma Lutsha Organisation is gearing up to host its 5th Visceral Fat Challenge, a significant event that blends health advocacy with social awareness. Sukuma Lutsha's Luthando William Bottoman said that since its inception in 2019, with a brief pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, the challenge has grown in popularity, showcasing past winners like Katleo Ralusi (an inaugural winner of the competition), Refiloe Motsoeneng and Katleo Joel. Scheduled to run from July 1st to July 31st, the 2025 challenge will culminate in an award ceremony on August 16th, coinciding with Women's Month and its focus on gender-based violence. 'By addressing the often-overlooked dangers of visceral fat, Sukuma Lutsha seeks to fill a significant gap in South Africa's health initiatives. It draws inspiration from global movements like Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' campaign, which focuses on reducing obesity.' The challenge aims to promote a healthier lifestyle, emphasising both physical and emotional well-being. By encouraging self-awareness and confidence, the challenge also seeks to empower individuals to resist societal pressures that often lead to body dissatisfaction and subsequent emotional distress. Such pressures can manifest in destructive behaviors, including domestic violence, highlighting the complex interplay between physical health, societal norms, and emotional well-being. 'The challenge not only offers prizes like Sukuma Lutsha merchandise and gym equipment but also serves as a platform for raising awareness about these critical issues, underscoring the dangerous implications of visceral fat and the importance of addressing it for overall health and societal harmony.' Sukuma Lutsha invites community members to join this initiative: 'promoting a holistic approach to health and well-being.' At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Inside the Health Views of Casey Means, Trump's Surgeon General Nominee
Dr. Casey Means, left, and journalist Megan Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 29, 2025. Credit - Ben Curtis—AP Not long before the 2024 election, Dr. Casey Means wrote a letter to her Good Energy newsletter subscribers with a health-related wishlist for the next Administration. In it were priorities that echo those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: investigating toxins in the food supply, incentivizing healthy food purchases with food stamps, replacing factory farming with regenerative farming. 'More than anything, I would like to see our future White House rally Americans to be healthy and fit,' wrote Means, a physician who President Trump nominated on May 7 for U.S. Surgeon General. Trump discarded his first pick, Dr. Janette Neshiewat, a day before she was scheduled to appear before a Senate committee. Means, who co-wrote the 2024 book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health with her brother Calley Means, holds many beliefs on health that mirror Kennedy's. She writes frequently about how drugs are overprescribed and that many modern ailments are caused by preventable lifestyle conditions. She believes that children should be served more nutritious food in school lunches, and she voices skepticism about seed oils. And she believes there are far too many chemicals in the U.S. food supply. Those similarities are partly why she was nominated, President Trump said in a May 8 news conference. 'Bobby really thought she was great, I don't know her,' Trump said, after a reporter asked about the choice. Means' pinned post on X is a celebration of Kennedy's swearing-in ceremony at the White House, which she called a 'BEAUTIFUL AND MOMENTOUS DAY FOR AMERICA.' Read More: How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump Means and her brother Calley, a startup founder, are central figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement, and in the months leading up to the election, they appeared together on Joe Rogan's and Tucker Carlson's podcasts. Their father, Grady Means, worked in the administration of President Gerald Ford as an assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a political centrist. In their 2024 book, the siblings make several points that would likely be embraced by Democrats. One is that nutrition and exercise play a huge role in our overall health (one of Michelle Obama's signature public health campaigns, Let's Move!, tried to reduce childhood obesity through exercise), and that the pharmaceutical and food industries have too much influence over everyday Americans. But some of Casey Means' ideas are more controversial. In her interview with Tucker Carlson, she said that birth control pills are overprescribed and that they signal a 'disrespect of life.' She said Ozempic has 'a stranglehold on the U.S. population' and convinces people that there is a magic pill that can save them from chronic health issues. And she questioned why babies in America were getting hepatitis B vaccines after birth, a practice that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends. She also calls into question the safety of childhood vaccines, writing in her newsletter, 'There is growing evidence that the total burden of the current extreme and growing vaccine schedule is causing health declines in vulnerable children." Though many doctors do not align with Means' positions on medical issues, some say that the pick will help advance Americans' health. Read More: Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Autism Research—Even As It Aims to Find the Cause 'I'm glad to see a nominee for surgeon general who is focused on food and diet-related exercise,' says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University. 'This is the top issue facing Americans' health.' Means criticized Mozaffarian in a past newsletter for leading a 2021 study that assessed the healthfulness of certain foods, denouncing it for being funded by companies that make ultra-processed foods. (He declined to comment on the criticism.) Means' perspective about the importance of health and exercise fits into the field of functional medicine, which focuses on identifying and treating the root cause of diseases rather than just treating symptoms. It disrupts traditional medicine's focus on prescription drugs—which is a good thing, says Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist and advocate for low-carb diets and functional medicine. 'What Casey brings to the spotlight is this perspective that we should really be focusing on health and keeping people healthy,' says Perlmutter, who has known Means for eight years. 'Our health care system now has very little to do with health. It has to do with treating disease.' Perlmutter appeared on a podcast episode for Levels, the tech company Means co-founded in 2019 that helps users track their real-time metabolic measures through the use of continuous glucose monitoring. (She is the company's chief medical officer; it is unclear whether she would step down from that role as surgeon general.) Means has also appeared on Perlmutter's podcast. In 2021, the two co-authored an op-ed in MedPage Today, a website for health professionals, criticizing the Biden Administration and federal guidelines for not recommending, in their view, a low-enough maximum threshold for daily added sugar. Means went to college and medical school at Stanford University. She began a medical residency in the department of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery at Oregon Health and Science University, but dropped out in her fifth year after realizing, she wrote in her book, that she wasn't learning the root causes of why people were getting sick. Read More: Medicaid Expansions Saved Tens of Thousands of Lives, Study Finds She was an editor for the International Journal for Disease Reversal and Prevention, a peer-reviewed publication that documents the science of nutrition and lifestyle, from 2019 to 2022. In that role, Means mainly edited poems, essays, and art work, according to Kim Allan Williams, the journal's editor in chief. 'I can't answer much except outside of her eye for art and literature. She was great at that!' he wrote in an email inquiring about her tenure there. Means has also dabbled in poetry in her newsletter. A poem she wrote in April (with the help of AI, she notes) called 'The Devil's Wellness Plan' begins: 'If I were the devil, I'd ditch the disguise—/No pitchfork, no flames, just marketing lies.' The poem touches on vaccinations, marketing, and medications, including stanzas that echo several talking points espoused by the MAHA and MAGA movements: 'I'd give boys man-boobs through toxic food,/And call masculine strength aggressive and lewd./I'd whisper, 'You're too much, too loud,'/And shame men's fire as something rude. I'd flood your screens with porn on demand,/Till touch means pixels, not holding a hand./I'd teach women that cooking is something to dread,/That birth needs control and a hospital bed.' Contact us at letters@
Time Magazine
08-05-2025
- Health
- Time Magazine
Inside the Health Views of Casey Means, Trump's Surgeon General Nominee
Not long before the 2024 election, Dr. Casey Means wrote a letter to her Good Energy newsletter subscribers with a health-related wishlist for the next Administration. In it were priorities that echo those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: investigating toxins in the food supply, incentivizing healthy food purchases with food stamps, replacing factory farming with regenerative farming. 'More than anything, I would like to see our future White House rally Americans to be healthy and fit,' wrote Means, a physician who President Trump nominated on May 7 for U.S. Surgeon General. Trump discarded his first pick, Dr. Janette Neshiewat, a day before she was scheduled to appear before a Senate committee. Means, who co-wrote the 2024 book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health with her brother Calley Means, holds many beliefs on health that mirror Kennedy's. She writes frequently about how drugs are overprescribed and that many modern ailments are caused by preventable lifestyle conditions. She believes that children should be served more nutritious food in school lunches, and she voices skepticism about seed oils. And she believes there are far too many chemicals in the U.S. food supply. Those similarities are partly why she was nominated, President Trump said in a May 8 news conference. 'Bobby really thought she was great, I don't know her,' Trump said, after a reporter asked about the choice. Means' pinned post on X is a celebration of Kennedy's swearing-in ceremony at the White House, which she called a 'BEAUTIFUL AND MOMENTOUS DAY FOR AMERICA.' Means and her brother Calley, a startup founder, are central figures in the Make America Healthy Again movement, and in the months leading up to the election, they appeared together on Joe Rogan's and Tucker Carlson's podcasts. Their father, Grady Means, worked in the administration of President Gerald Ford as an assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a political centrist. In their 2024 book, the siblings make several points that would likely be embraced by Democrats. One is that nutrition and exercise play a huge role in our overall health (one of Michelle Obama's signature public health campaigns, Let's Move!, tried to reduce childhood obesity through exercise), and that the pharmaceutical and food industries have too much influence over everyday Americans. But some of Casey Means' ideas are more controversial. In her interview with Tucker Carlson, she said that birth control pills are overprescribed and that they signal a 'disrespect of life.' She said Ozempic has 'a stranglehold on the U.S. population' and convinces people that there is a magic pill that can save them from chronic health issues. And she questioned why babies in America were getting hepatitis B vaccines after birth, a practice that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends. She also calls into question the safety of childhood vaccines, writing in her newsletter, 'There is growing evidence that the total burden of the current extreme and growing vaccine schedule is causing health declines in vulnerable children." Though many doctors do not align with Means' positions on medical issues, some say that the pick will help advance Americans' health. 'I'm glad to see a nominee for surgeon general who is focused on food and diet-related exercise,' says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University. 'This is the top issue facing Americans' health.' Means criticized Mozaffarian in a past newsletter for leading a 2021 study that assessed the healthfulness of certain foods, denouncing it for being funded by companies that make ultra-processed foods. (He declined to comment on the criticism.) Means' perspective about the importance of health and exercise fits into the field of functional medicine, which focuses on identifying and treating the root cause of diseases rather than just treating symptoms. It disrupts traditional medicine's focus on prescription drugs—which is a good thing, says Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist and advocate for low-carb diets and functional medicine. 'What Casey brings to the spotlight is this perspective that we should really be focusing on health and keeping people healthy,' says Perlmutter, who has known Means for eight years. 'Our health care system now has very little to do with health. It has to do with treating disease.' Perlmutter appeared on a podcast episode for Levels, the tech company Means co-founded in 2019 that helps users track their real-time metabolic measures through the use of continuous glucose monitoring. (She is the company's chief medical officer; it is unclear whether she would step down from that role as surgeon general.) Means has also appeared on Perlmutter's podcast. In 2021, the two co-authored an op-ed in MedPage Today, a website for health professionals, criticizing the Biden Administration and federal guidelines for not recommending, in their view, a low-enough maximum threshold for daily added sugar. Means went to college and medical school at Stanford University. She began a medical residency in the department of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery at Oregon Health and Science University, but dropped out in her fifth year after realizing, she wrote in her book, that she wasn't learning the root causes of why people were getting sick. She was an editor for the International Journal for Disease Reversal and Prevention, a peer-reviewed publication that documents the science of nutrition and lifestyle, from 2019 to 2022. In that role, Means mainly edited poems, essays, and art work, according to Kim Allan Williams, the journal's editor in chief. 'I can't answer much except outside of her eye for art and literature. She was great at that!' he wrote in an email inquiring about her tenure there. Means has also dabbled in poetry in her newsletter. A poem she wrote in April (with the help of AI, she notes) called 'The Devil's Wellness Plan' begins: 'If I were the devil, I'd ditch the disguise—/No pitchfork, no flames, just marketing lies.' The poem touches on vaccinations, marketing, and medications, including stanzas that echo several talking points espoused by the MAHA and MAGA movements: 'I'd give boys man-boobs through toxic food,/And call masculine strength aggressive and lewd./I'd whisper, 'You're too much, too loud,'/And shame men's fire as something rude. I'd flood your screens with porn on demand,/Till touch means pixels, not holding a hand./I'd teach women that cooking is something to dread,/That birth needs control and a hospital bed.'
Axios
08-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
Exclusive: Ivanka Trump plans new focus on access to fresh produce
Ivanka Trump on Thursday will announce a new focus on access to fresh produce and healthy food, as part of growing national attention to "the role of nutrition in chronic disease and overall well-being," according to a preview provided to Axios. Why it matters: Ivanka Trump, a West Wing official during her father's first term, has mostly stayed out of the spotlight during Trump 2.0. Thursday's appearance marks her return to the national conversation, using her celebrity to spotlight an urgent policy issue. During a fireside chat on Thursday at the Heartland Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, President Trump's oldest daughter will discuss how "private-sector solutions and whole-harvest sourcing are helping expand access to fresh food, support farmers, reduce waste and drive lasting impact across communities," according to the preview. She'll be interviewed onstage by Arianna Huffington — founder and CEO of Thrive Global — who tells Axios that Ivanka Trump's "decision to focus on democratizing access to healthy food comes at an unprecedented moment in our country's healthcare journey, where we're finally recognizing the scale of the crisis in chronic diseases." Ivanka Trump is a co-founder of Planet Harvest, a " profit-for-purpose" company she started with her friend Melissa Melshenker Ackerman, a produce supply-chain expert who is the company's co-founder and CEO. "We launched Planet Harvest to reimagine how American produce moves— not just through the supply chain, but across communities," Ivanka Trump said in a statement to Axios. "By connecting fresh and surplus harvests with those who can benefit from them, we're supporting farmers, reducing food waste, expanding access and using good nutrition to improve health." Driving the news: Ivanka Trump is in Bentonville for Thursday's Heartland Summit, an annual event that showcases Northwest Arkansas as a hub of growth and innovation. The summit was co-founded by Walmart heirs Olivia Walton, Tom Walton and Steuart Walton. Philanthropist Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, has made health care a signature issue, along with the arts. The summit is hosted by Heartland Forward — a think tank, based in Bentonville, that focuses on the 20 states in the middle of the country. The big picture: Make America Healthy Again, a movement led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has become a signature issue of the Trump administration and the MAGA base. Former first lady Michelle Obama, through her Let's Move! initiative, promoted healthier foods for schools to help reduce childhood obesity, and access to healthy, affordable food for families. Zoom in: Planet Harvest says it uses "real-time data and smart logistics to match the right produce with the right buyer at the right time," and "collaborates with food manufacturers to turn surplus crops into innovative products — such as dried, no-sugar-added cherries."
