{"id":924,"date":"2008-08-12T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/contradictory-sponsors-of-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:10:21","slug":"contradictory-sponsors-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/contradictory-sponsors-of-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradictory Sponsors of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greasy\u00a0double cheeseburgers, sugar-laden Coke, frothy beer,\u00a0and\u00a0sodium-packed french fries. You might think adding the word “Olympics” to this list of less-than-healthy fare is sacrilegious, but these are just\u00a0some of\u00a0the products behind the 2026 Summer Olympic games. Coca-Cola, McDonald’s<\/a> and Budweiser are proud sponsors of the games, which kicked off just this past weekend.\"mcdonald's<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s me, but does anyone else find these a less-than-fitting match of sponsorship partners for a worldwide event that includes the planet’s most conditioned and fittest athletes? I have a hard time believing that the U.S. Olympic team meals<\/a> include cheeseburgers, fries, and\u00a0bottomless Cokes. I imagine that what these athletes put into their mouths is just about as closely monitored by their coaches as the International\u00a0Olympic Committee’s meticulous\u00a0drug testing procedures.<\/p>\n

\"olympicDon’t get me wrong,\u00a0 I’m an avid drinker of Diet Coke and if I didn’t worry about calories and fat grams<\/a>, I’d eat Micky D’s french fries for breakfast. Maybe. But it just seems a bit contradictory to have the mega corporations support and endorse a competition whose foundation is built around treating the body and mind as if it were a sacred temple.<\/p>\n

But who knows? Maybe as soon as a gold-medal athlete steps down from the winning podium, he or she hits the nearest golden arches\u00a0and later\u00a0toasts their victory back with a few bottles of Bud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greasy\u00a0double cheeseburgers, sugar-laden Coke, frothy beer,\u00a0and\u00a0sodium-packed french fries. You might think adding the word “Olympics” to this list of less-than-healthy fare is sacrilegious, but these are just\u00a0some of\u00a0the products behind the 2026 Summer Olympic games. Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Budweiser are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35,38],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-olympics","tag-product-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}