Unfit, Unhealthy & Unwell The Truth, Facts, & Lies the Health, Fitness & Wellness Industry Sell You

by Cruz, Frankie; Bernstein, Ari; Lyons, David; Newton, Scott; Odeh, Rami; Robinson, Khadevis; Rosa, Mike; Spaw, Alyssa; Williams, Nia; Wright, Nick

• ISBN13: 9781792358142
• ISBN10: 1792358148
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-06-04
• Publisher: BookBaby

Summary

Americans everywhere have a lot of pent up energy. Trying to do the right thing by dieting and exercising to be fit and healthy.

In response to this huge demand, the health, wellness, and fitness industry has grown exponentially into an immense, multi-billion dollar industry. Online advertising, televised infomercials bombard us with machines to build better abs, flatter tummies—influencers and health gurus pop-up on our phones, offering fitness and diet solutions. The onslaught urges consumers to pull out their credit cards, then purchase gym subscriptions, dietary supplements, exercise bikes at three thousand dollars a pop, toning creams, diet cookbooks, workout programs, and holistic diet plans, and more claiming to give you the body of a Hollywood star or starlet. It seems there is nowhere to hide. You'd think Americans should be the fittest population on the planet for all the glitz, glam, and sweaty bodies losing weight pounds. But what is the truth?

The facts could not be farther from all the hype. Obesity is an epidemic. Despite the industry's constant claims of helping people become fit, healthy, and well, American's health is deteriorating at an alarming rate. Misinformation is spread far and wide — giant corporations prop up their favorite fitness influencers and 'gurus' on their behalf to garner sales from the hordes of unsuspecting individuals—all in a vicious cycle of profits over people's health.

Now, for the first time, a group of international, diverse, and dedicated industry veterans that include, best- selling authors, multi-award winning fitness health and wellness experts, an Olympic athlete, a renowned Medical Doctor, have teamed up with, Dr. Nia Williams an award winning consumer psychologist will debunk the lies, with unsparing frankness. The authors' will fearlessly expose their Health and Fitness Industry's worst aspects but also offer significant new thinking about how to restore trust and integrity, and present well-thought-out ideas to help fitness consumers make better choices.

Unfit, Unhealthy, and Unwell offers candid opinions in easy- to -read essay format. Curated by Frankie D. Cruz along with a team of authors who are dedicated to combining their expertise to save their industry from itself, and help Americans from all walks of life become healthier, and genuinely fit for far less money.

Author Biography

Frankie D. Cruz is an independent, certified personal trainer, and nutrition coach by the International Sports Science Association who specializes in positive psychology. He was trained in using evidence-based Positive Psychology at MentorCoach, one of the US's top coaching schools. Overcoming being legally blind since birth, he has been defined by his positive vision for the future. A budding leader and visionary for the fitness industry, Frankie believes everyone deserves the best science has to offer, and has made it his mission to educate others and give them the tools to succeed in their health and fitness journeys. Dr. Bernstein is a best selling author with Jack Canfield for their book "Success Formula", and has been featured on yahoo finance, market watch, CBS, NBC, FOX, yahoo money, and the Wall Street Journal. He has studied personal development for over 10 years and now coaches others to find there purpose and reach their full potential.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. George's University and completed his Internal Medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Queens. Dr, Bernstein is a board certified internal medicine physician and has experience in emergency medicine, primary care, urgent care, sports medicine, pain management, nutrition as well as health and wellness. He has worked in hospitals and ERs, covering rehab floors to intensive care units. David Lyons is the best-selling author of David's Goliath and Everyday Health and Fitness with Multiple Sclerosis and columnist for Everyday Health. A National Fitness Hall of Fame inductee, Lyons, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2006 at the age of 47 and made the choice to fight MS head-on through bodybuilding. In 2009, at age 50, he competed in a bodybuilding contest winning the Most Inspirational trophy, and was the recipient of the National MS Society Milestone Award. In 2012, Lyons and his wife, Kendra founded the MS Fitness Challenge charity to support people with MS in conquering this disease through fitness. Lyons was honored by Arnold Schwarzenegger with the Health Advocate Lifetime Achievement Award, and has received the Lifetime Fitness Inspiration Award from the GBO, an international fitness federation. David has partnered with fitness icon Lou Ferrigno and daughter Shanna on The Reset Plan TV series. Scott Newton is the Founder of Evolve Personalized Fitness: Scott received his undergraduate degree in Human Movement, from Boston University. Shortly after he moved to California where he began his career as a trainer, coach, teacher, and athletic director. His passion for fitness and education grew, leading to him earning his masters degree in Kinesiology, from California State University, Fullerton. Scott is a certified personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise (ACE). With more than 29 years experience and study, he has continuously seen how a systematic, science-based approach to training changes bodies, performance, and lives. Rami F. Odeh is the author of three books, Quiet the Noise: A Trail Runners Path to Hearing God and the founder of FormWell Personal Fitness Training, a personal training company located in Sandy Springs, GA. Founded in 1999, FormWell helped over 5000 clients achieve their exercise and weight loss goals. Rami sold this business in 2019 to pursue his next dream career: motivational speaking, writing and coaching.
Rami has dual master's degrees, one in industrial psychology and the other in exercise physiology and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a health and fitness specialist. He has been a motivational speaker, personal trainer, and nutritional coach in various gyms and client's homes in the Southeast since 1992 and has hands-on experience with over 1000 clients. His current life mission is to positively effect the lives of as many people he can, using writing, speaking, and coaching. Olympian, Speaker, Author, Coach and Mentor, Khadevis Robinson has always been a team player. Having represented the US for over a decade in international competitions, Khadevis Robinson has always utilized The Champions Mindset. From earning his Masters Degree in Public Administration, to coaching at UNLV, LSU and The Ohio State University, Khadevis understands that Major Things Happen In Minor Moments. Khadevis has been a Philanthropic Advisor for The EACH Foundation, an University Coordinator for Athletes For Hope and he is the Host for two online podcasts, "The Khadevis Robinson Challenge" and Sports World 2020. From coaching team USA at the Pan  American Junior Games, The NACAC Championships and The World Championships, Khadevis believes that we all have an Olympic size dream within us. As MLK said, we all have that Drum Major Instinct. Khadevis is continuing to recognize, develop, multiply and share his talents and helping others do the same. Mike Rosa is the founder, owner and CEO of Anabolic Aliens LLC. Anabolic Aliens has amassed over a 1.5 million audience reach with more than 750K YouTube subscribers achieving over 100 million views. Mike created the app Exerprise which trended #1 new fitness app and is growing fast with thousands of new users daily. He received his degree in Nutrition from the University of New Hampshire and has broken 2 world records, multiple New England records and won best lifter in Massachusetts for powerlifting. Mike made his TV debut in Episode 2 of Man Vs Bear on the Discovery Channel. With young vibrance, Alyssa combines the importance of mental and physical strength in the pursuit of wellness. Starting with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, the research experience led Alyssa to pursue a PhD program studying human eating behavior. The years spent contribute to the knowledge used in her one-on-one coaching. Soon after, she became a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and pursued a certification with the National Corporate Fitness Institute to support corporate wellness programs. Outside of the gym, Alyssa has been a local performer for several years; lending well to the passion of speaking. Dr Nia Williams is a Psychologist and Lecturer at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is fascinated by human behaviour and has explored an immense variety of psychological phenomena, ranging from personality to social psychology to behavioural economics and other cognitive processes. Over the years she has developed a reputation for successfully creating experiments for award winning television programmes such as; Winner of best Factual Entertainment at the Celtic Media Festival and won the Silver Medal Award in the Community Project Category at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards. She makes regular Radio and TV contributions as an expert informant on various issues relating to psychology. Nick Wright is a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter, He's documented his competitive journey and life through YouTube and other accompanying social media platforms since 2009. Proud to hold the title of one of YouTube's first fitness influencers, Nick helped pioneer the YouTube Fitness circuit along with a few other great channels out there, I have had the pleasure of meeting, working with, and even helping start some of today's most popular fitness channels. Having been in and seen the inner workings that take place in this industry behind the scenes, he's done his best to always keep his content both healthy and honest.