Yoga, Food and the Art of Ignorance

As I invited some friends into the world of CrossFit this week in New York, many asked why they had never heard of the sport. It has been around a decade, it is arguably cutting edge, produces superior and measurable results… Then I was reminded by the same friend that Yoga had been around thousands of years and I myself was just learning it. So touché.
It is true, that we humans have a strange way to resist facts and change. Even if the results stare us in the face. I was at an investor event this week and met a guy from Vanguard, the mutual fund company, who reminded me that index investing took 25 years of ridicule before becoming mainstream with a fund sizes now over a trillion dollars. Same is true for sugar. Most paleo books point to research of over 100 years that point out the problems with sugar, yet there is an unstoppable surge of low-fat, no-fat yogurt places across the country. All selling massive doses of sugar with various health claims.
What is my point? Here it is. There are certain things in life we ourselves have to learn and drive. This includes our health, fitness and money. Noone will have our best interest in mind except ourselves. Stop handing your life over to your globo-gym, broker or some health fad. Let’s wake up to this fact finally and grab that weight, stretch that back, throw out that sugar and put that money in an index fund.  Noone else will do it for us.