Platinum in the News

• WORLD'S NO. 1 BARB LINDQUIST

  FP Talks to world's fastest short course triathlete.
  July, 2002
  Kari Redfield
  Fitness Plus
  Barb Lindquist has been one of the top five triathletes in the world the last four years. Her unprecedented win of the Australian sprint title and the accenture series title makes her the No. 1 triathlete in the world in her specialty, short course. Last year she placed on the podium 13 times, taking the gold in the Goodwill Games and silver at the Wildflower Half Ironman.
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• Hall, Ervin Smash Record in 50 Free

  August 16, 2000
  Washington Post
  They wore identical black hooded garments, these Grim Reaper lookalikes, to the starting blocks. They train together and claim to consume virtually the same diet as horse Fusiachi Pegasus, the Kentucky Derby winner. The diet includes energy bars called "horse bars."
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• Platinum Performance Take Olympic Team Trials by Storm, Crumble Records

  August 18, 2000
  Teresa Mariani
  Platinum Staff Writer
  INDIANAPOLIS -- Breaking the U.S. record in the 50-meter Freestyle and nearly shattering the World Record in the same event, personality-enhanced swimmer Gary Hall Jr. snagged a spot on the U.S. Olympic Swim Team.
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• Athletes are Showing Some Horse Sense

  Nutrition: Supplement used by Derby winner is becoming popular with endurance athletes.
  July 7, 2000
  Santa Barbara New-Press
  Kentucky Derby winning racehorse Fusaichi Pegasus and cyclist Cassie Lowe, the only individual woman to finish the grueling Race Across America this year, appear to be athletes with nothing in common -- except perhaps an intrinsic need for speed and endurance.
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• Double Take

  The surprisingly strong American swimmers got the biggest surprise of all when Anthony Ervin and Gary Hall Jr. won in a dead heat July, 2000
  Leigh Montville
  Sports Illustrated
  The scoreboard was a confusing jumble of numbers and names and results. Turning around, squinting, looking at the wall at the far end of the pool at the Aquatics Centre last Friday night, Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin were puzzled. The scoreboard had too much information. Or maybe not enough. LANE 3, ERVIN, USA, 21.98 (1). LANE 4, HALL JR. USA, 21.98 (1). Someting didn't compute.
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Nutrition in the News

• Flaxseed Might Block Prostate Cancer

  Nov. 11, 2002
  WebMD Medical News
  There's more positive news about a diet rich in flaxseed. The omega-3 fatty acids and fiber in flaxseed could possibly tame the severity of prostate cancer.
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• Flaxseed – The Importance of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Adults and Infants

  Flax Council of Canada
  Studies of Paleolithic nutrition and modern hunter-gatherer populations suggest that humans evolved on a diet different from today’s typical North American diet.
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• The Skinny On Essential Fatty Acids

  By Linda Knittel
  Tell your customers that if they want to lose weight and improve their health they should simply eat more fat. That's right, fat.
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