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Fit Fix: Meet the 14-Year-Old Who Can Deadlift Twice His Body Weight

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Strongest Kid
Jake Schellenschlager can deadlift twice his body weight.
 
The Powerlifter

Meet the 14-year-old who can lift more than 300 pounds.

Posted by The Atlantic on Monday, November 16, 2015

Strongest Boy in the World: On Monday we featured a quick video of a white-haired gentleman, reportedly 84 years old, who back-squatted what appears to be 330 lbs. Today's weightlifting heroics are on the other end of the spectrum: The Atlantic's cool video feature on Jake Schellenschlager, the teenage phenom who holds five world records in powerlifting. (Learn more about Jake at Muscle & Fitness.)

"It's a Hard Three Letters to Absorb": Charlie Sheen is HIV-positive, the actor announced Tuesday morning in an interview with Matt Lauer on TODAY. Sheen does not yet have AIDS, his doctor said. Sheen said he confided his diagnosis in people he thought he could trust, but that he ultimately paid about $10 million to keep his illness a secret. The National Enquirer broke the news Monday.

The Refs Messed Up: The referees at Monday night's Jaguars-Ravens game completely missed a false start penalty that would have negated the Jaguars' game-winning field goal, an NFL spokesperson said. "There's nothing we can do about it now," Harbaugh said. It's unfortunate, it's disappointing. It's gut-wrenching." [FOX Sports]

It's a Tiny Computer: The Chromebit, a new stick-sized computer from Google and Asus that runs the Chrome OS, can plug into any monitor's HDMI port and serve as a perfectly functioning computer. Retail? A cool $85. [The Verge]

Presidential Medal of Freedom Announced: Steven Spielberg, Willie Mays, Barbara Streisand, and the late Yogi Berra are among the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, the White House announced. [Variety]

This is How You Crash a Wedding: Kendrick Lamar was greeted with a decidedly chilly reception when he crashed a wedding in Cleveland—until some people at the wedding realized he was, in fact, a reasonably famous rapper. Grammys open dance floors, dudes. [Billboard]










FDA Finalizes Sweeping Rules to Improve Food Safety

Safer Food
New FDA regs are designed to cut down on foodborne illness.

Hard fact: Americans love food. So if anything's gonna freak people out, it's the prospect of harmless-looking food that could actually kill them.

Take the high-profile outbreak of E. coli traced to at least eight Chipotle restaurants in the Pacific Northwest. At least a dozen people went to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain, prompting the company to close a total of 43 restaurants in Seattle and Portland. (The company says it extensively cleaned and tested all 43 restaurants before they were reopened on Nov. 12, and says it's working with health officials to identify the source of the outbreak.)

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That's just one example. Back in April, Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries was forced to recall a huge amount of its ice cream after it was linked to 10 cases of listeria, three of them deadly, from 2010 to 2015. And in 2014, the CDC warned Americans to avoid prepackaged caramel-coated apples, which were linked to 28 cases of listeria, at least four of them deadly, in 10 states.

But those types of outbreaks will hopefully come to an end soon, thanks to a sweeping new set of regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration designed to improve food safety and proactively cut down on potentially dangerous outbreaks. Foodborne illnesses—potentially dangerous bugs like salmonella, listeria, and E. coli—infect some 48 million Americans each year, killing 3,000, according to data from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The latest deadly example: the humble cucumber. “The recent multistate outbreak of Salmonella in imported cucumbers that has killed four Americans, hospitalized 157 and sickened hundreds more, is exactly the kind of outbreak these rules can help prevent,” Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, said in the announcement.

These new rules give the FDA the power to enforce new regulations established by the Food Safety Modernization Act, a landmark law first passed in 2011. They set standards for everything from how produce is grown, shipped, and packed (both domestically and abroad), to how often farmers need to test their water supplies, and even how extensively food importers need to audit their foreign suppliers.

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Some 19% of America's food supply is imported, and that number is even higher for fresh fruit (52%) and vegetables (22%), according to a 2013 U.S. Department of Agriculture survey. A lot of those veggies wind up on the plates of health-conscious eaters.

It'll be a few years before the rules finally take effect, and the FDA has warned that it needs a fully funded budget for the new regulations to have any teeth. But for now, at least, they mark a concrete step forward in cleaning up the good stuff that crosses Americans' plates every day.










Is a New Experimental Drug the Fountain of Youth?

Fountain of Youth
Scientists are testing an Alzheimer's drug with anti-aging effects.

Scientists from the Salk Institute may have discovered a "fountain of youth" while on a quest to fight Alzheimer's disease. The potential wonder drug is called J147 and, according to the researchers, this new body of research published in the journal Aging,  is expanding on previous developments and findings in which J147 targets Alzheimer’s number one risk factor—old age.

In the new study, scientists explored the effects of the drug on a breed of mice that ages rapidly and experience a version of dementia that closely resembles how we’re impacted by the age-related disorder. In all, there were three groups of mice total: One was young, another set was old, and the third was old, but fed J147 as they aged.

Using a comprehensive set of analyses to measure gene expression in the brain, as well as over 500 small molecules involved with blood and brain metabolism, the researchers were able to examine the how the three groups of rapidly aging mice fared. 

Overall, the J147-treated mice performed better on memory and cognition tests, and “displayed more robust motor movements,” according to the press release. They exhibited healthier physiological features (AKA, they looked younger!) and strengthened blood vessels; J147 actually prevented the leakage of blood from microvessels in the mice’s brains relative to Alzheimer’s disease. And the treated mice even had the metabolism and gene expression similar to those of young mice (i.e. they showed increased energy metabolism, reduced brain inflammation, and lower levels of oxidized fatty acids in the brain). 

Though the drug has only been tested on mice thus far, the results are impressive nonetheless. And that's huge news since, ranked as the third leading cause of death in the United States, Alzheimer’s disease affects more than five million Americans.   

The next step? Human trials, which will begin next year. "If proven safe and effective for Alzheimer's, the apparent anti-aging effect of J147 would be a welcome benefit,” said David Schubert, senior study author. 










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Holly Holm Knocks Out Ronda Rousey in Stunning UFC Upset

Rousey KO'ed
Holly Holm claims the UFC bantamweight title.
Holly Holm receives the UFC bantamweight title belt after knocking out Ronda Rousey.

Call it the kick felt 'round the world.

In one of the greatest sports upsets in recent memory, former world boxing champion Holly Holm (10-0) knocked out previously undefeated MMA champion and Olympic judo bronze medalist Ronda Rousey (12-1) with a crushing left head kick to claim the UFC bantamweight title Sunday in a packed Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.

The taller, rangier Holm, who was considered a significant underdog when the bout was announced, forced Rousey to fight upright for most of the match. By fending off Rousey's takedown attempts, Holm effectively turned the fight into a boxing match, effectively neutralizing Rousey's unparalleled grappling skill. By the second round, Rousey had 

The defeat seems all the more surprising because Rousey has, in the past few months, showcased her sunnier side in multiple media appearances, leveraging her charm off the mat to become UFC's first bona-fide media darling. She was featured in Maxim; she made headlines when she agreed to go to the Marine Corps Ball with a courageous soldier; she hyped the fight on The Tonight Show; she co-hosted SportsCenter; she starred in a new Carl's Jr. ad; she locked down a starring role in the Road House reboot. 

Oh, and about that Tonight Show appearance: Rousey told Jimmy Fallon that Holm was "the biggest threat, definitely, to me."

Even after the loss, however, Rousey earned some encouragement from her fellow fighters, among them former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who knows a thing or two about winning (and losing) huge fights.

 

 










#IFightFor: Michael B. Jordan Directs and Stars in New "Creed" Spot

#IFightFor
Michael B. Jordan directs and stars in the new "Creed" promo.
Michael B. Jordan stars and directs in #IFightFor, the new promo for "Creed."

 

 

Of all the iconic scenes training in the first Rocky movie—the meat freezer, chasing a chicken, Adriaaan!—there's one that always sticks out: when Rocky drinks the eggs.

Unlike those other scenes, it ain't flashy. There's virtually no music, no other sound. But that's why it always resonates with any serious athlete or fighter who watches Rocky. It's probably the truest training moment in the whole movie, unflinching in its portrayal of the early-morning wakeups and the grueling training that inevitably follows.

And it looks like Michael B. Jordan has been taking close notes.

Jordan, who plays Rocky Balboa's apprentice fighter Adonis Johnson in the upcoming movie Creed, directs and stars in a #IFightFor, a subtle new promo-in-disguise showcasing his dedication to training. The ad's title ties in with the hashtag used to promote the movie, which has garnered tweets from the movie's director Ryan Coogler, real-life fighter Holly Holm, and co-stars Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson.

 

 

There are some differences, of course. Jordan wakes up at 5 a.m. in what is presumably sunny LA, not freezing Philly. He trains in top-notch Air Jordans, not beat-up Chucks. Instead of drinking eggs, he tweets about training. But the spirit of #IFightFor is the same, poultry products notwithstanding.

Creed hits theaters November 25.