Wowww, great article!

Love that this has triggered some proper meat heads in the comments! And for not showing a picture of meat, oh nooo! I mean, you just have to walk down your nearest street to see pictures of dead animals cut into bits of food on various adverts if that's what you really want...

Some bits in the article not so up to date with latest scientific concensus, but generally a really positive outlook on diet and crossfit, and clean proteins can include vegan sources, so I'm glad the word "meat" isn't mentioned!

Great article, finally CF is in the right direction with its food. 
This was fir me the only thing I did not support but now it's finally up to date, I applause the courage to go against the old and support this whole hearted. 

Not only for our body and souls, also for our spirit, the respect of life of other animals and the environment we should at least consider plant based. 

Great job, keep going... 

I'm so glad everybody else was just as annoyed about this as I was. This is garbage nutritional advice. Having glassman back might be a good idea. He didn't bow to anybodys agenda. He might have eventually killed the CF games. But without him CrossFit as a whole is dying. 

This cements my resolve not to do a level 2 trainers. CrossFit no longer represents the affiliates and members interests it has sold out to the corporate world. The mere mention of whole grains undermines the message "Off the carbs and off the couch". Next they will be programming bicep curls aaagggghhhhh!!

The majority of published research is incorrect and cannot be replicated.  Nutritional epidemiology, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry are leaders in the parade of bad science.   

I have heard this idea that industrial oils cause inflammation many times, and I thought it made sense, but most of the references I see are to articles that either show how some biological pathway could create that issue or are large population studies that try to show a correlation but have too many other factors at play to prove anything. For example, one study looked at Eskimos compared to other people, and certainly Eskimos consume more Omega-3's. But does anyone believe they otherwise behave just like your average American and that the rest of their diet and lifestyle is the same?

In the world of controlled, randomized studies there appears to be no correlation between consuming these oils and markers for inflammation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179509/ . Can anyone point me to more recent or larger studies that use a controlled, randomized structure to show this effect?

"Focus 80% of the diet on whole, real foods with plenty of fiber, such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, and healthy lower-glycemic whole grains, healthy fats as well as quality, well-sourced clean protein"

Protein is last...

I'm pretty sure its "Eat Meat and Vegetables, Nuts and Sees, Some Fruit, Little Starch, and No Sugar". Not whatever the hell that is above..

"Eat the rainbow"...that's some food pyramid bullshit.

80/20 rule suggests that if you eat three meals a day (breakfast, lunch, or dinner), so 84 meals a week, 16 of those meals each week can be whatever you want them to be. That's terrible advice. 

Who's writing these? ABC News? 

Get it together CrossFit, you're supposed to be a repository for truth and honesty. This is garbage. 

So in both the email and the article you are too chikenshit to mention or even photograph  meat? Clearly the value of a Harvard degree is destructing as everything goes woke!

Thank you for the article and, for the most part, I am on board. However, I have found that as I age the 80/20 rule has moved to the 95/5 and even stricter rule. Most any 'cheat' these days will result in almost immediate inflammation in the weakest areas, usually the knees and hips for me. Thanks again.

Whole grains? So is “eat meat, vegetables, nut and seeds, some fruit, little starch, no sugar, no grains”, no longer the general prescription. 

Eating grains while emphasizing supporting gut health and minimizing inflammation are contradictions. 

This general directive seems like a stepping stone to advocating plant based diet. 

Loren Cordain, Rob Wolf we miss you. 

Amazing and really interesting about nutrition and psychatry. A subject i never see, except here and on bioarts.fr . Thank you guys 

Congrats!
So many trues. We are what we eat.
Thanks.

MayTiger V2
5rounds for time of:
5 strict pull-ups
5 strict ring-dips
10 pistol alt.

and then 

5rounds for time of
10 One-arm dumbbell snatches alt. 22.5kg
5 Dumbbell’s thrusters 
-11:42

시간이 빨리 가길 바랄뿐

30 hang leg raise
Tab sprint
30 HLR
T spr
30

17:20

Nutrition? Hah. Kabul wins again.

I'm a Nutritionist from Italy and I can't be happier to read this words!
That's exactly how healthy lifestyle should be! An healthy lifestyle gives you freedom!
Cheers

Fantastic article! I read this a couple of years ago, but it definitely makes more sense when you eliminate specific foods and experience the profound effects first hand.