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Professional athletes dont get to the top by accident. It takes superhuman levels of time, dedication, and focusand that includes paying attention to what they put in their bellies. In this series, GQ takes a look at what pro athletes in different sports eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson tells us how he cuts weight while still loving beer.

For years, Demetrious Johnson has been in the conversation as the UFCs top pound-for-pound fighter. In fact, the company itself has bestowed that honor upon Johnson in their very own rankings. Hes successfully defended his flyweight championship a record-tying 10 times and hasnt lost a fight since 2011. So you might be shocked to learn that, according to Johnson, the UFC has contemplated shuttering the 125-pound weight class (Theyre trying to burn my division down, Johnson said somewhat arbitrarily at the end of our conversation, three days before publicly airing out a slew of grievances towards Dana White and the UFC in response to a potential fight with bantamweight T.J. Dillashaw). But before any of that came to light, we caught up with Mighty Mouse to try to learn the key to staying on top as champ for so long in a sport where no champion is ever safe.

GQ: About a month ago on your Instagram, you posted a photo of a shot glass with some green substance in it. Was that some sort of magic elixir?

Demetrious Johnson: We were juicing some wheat grass, actually.

Is that something new for you, or have you always been into that?

Yeah, weve always been into juicing. Its one of the things that my wife likes to do. Shes a vegetarian, so she loves to juice. And Im a big health freakwell, when I feel like being it. Well also juice ginger. I like to make my ginger, lemon, and cayenne pepper shot. Thats kinda like my coffee shot in the morning. We were doing it pretty consistently, but weve been so busy travelling for the last two and a half weeks. I brought some ginger shots to Disneyland, but then I was in Dallas, New York, and Vegas. Once we get back home I think well start back up with juicing consistently, though.

Will you do that even when youre in camp or when youre dropping weight for a fight?

I dont do it to help make weight. Im a small guy, as it is. For me, I dont need to juice to make weight for my fights. I just do it for the health benefitsto keep my body healthy and to get my greens in me.

Cutting weight is one of the things that has always fascinated me. How close to 125 pounds do you usually stay?

It all depends. You know, last night I had two beers and four slices of pizza and five apple empanadas and I woke up at 143 pounds. I can eat whatever I want and I dont get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big and when it gets closer to the fight, theyre walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at. Ill show up to a fight week on a Tuesday weighing 138, 140 pounds. I only have to weigh 125 pounds for like, one second. So when I jump on the scale and they yell, 125! Then I can blow back up. Come fight night Ill weigh 140 pounds. Thats how I run my style. Like I said, a lot of people blow up to 150 or even 160 pounds, then they have a hard time cutting more weight. But I stay at a pretty consistent weight, so when I make that 15 pound cut, its not such a drastic change where my body is like, Whats going on? I just gotta shed 15 pounds of water and then Ill put it back on, dont you worry.

I know everyone has their own methods for cutting weight, and what works for one person might not work as well for another, but I have to admit that your method seems like one of the smarter ones, especially with how quickly a fight can pop up in the UFC sometimes.

Yeah, I was at the UFC retreat and Aljamain Sterling was like, Yeah, Im at 165, 166 pounds right now. I was like, You weigh almost as heavy as a welterweight walking around! Me? Im 53, eating whatever I want, drinking beer, having pizza. Stuffed-crust pizza! Not that dry-ass crust! Stuffed-crust, and Im waking up at 140 pounds.

When it comes to a camp, Im assuming your diet gets you away from the stuffed-crust pizzas?

You know, I do have my cheat meals. I have Oreos inside the house right now and I have beer and fried chicken and waffles. All that good stuff. But once it comes down to when I really want to get in shape and get lean, Ill eat clean and go with whole foods. In the morning Ill have some type of toast. Ezekiel bread, so its all whole grain. Then for the rest of the day I wont have any sweets, no beer, nothing bad for me. My wife will come home and cook my meals during training camp. Shell be like, What do you want for dinner? and Ill say, Chicken and greens. Its that simple. She just throws some chicken in the oven and steams some broccoli or spinach or asparagus. Its super easy. Then Ill have some type of good carb, like a sweet potato or brown rice.

I know youre a big beer guy. I saw you drinking some beer on Instagram that is way too adventurous for me.

Yeah, a coconut and chocolate stout. It was delicious! Thats one thing, I just love beer. And I like dark beers. Ill drink chocolate stouts, porters, stuff like that. But beer is just wasted calories. When I cut alcohol for eight weeks before a fight, Ill lose maybe two to three pounds Man, Im contemplating right now if I want to have a beer just as we speak about it! But Im like, Fuck, its three oclock in the afternoon and the kids are still up. What do you do? Decisions, decisions.

Post-fight, is that something you look forward to the most? Having a celebratory beer?

I used to be like that. At one point we would do Irish Car Bomb shots, me and the coaches. That was when I was fighting at 135 pounds in like, 2011. But now when I go through these long periods of time without any alcohol, to introduce it back into my system sort of messes me up. So I have to take it slowly. After a fight I let my stomach rest and hold off on the beer. Ill have burgers and fries, though.

Be honest, how hungry are you right after you make weight or right after a fight? Do you just have a meal waiting for you the second you get back to the locker room?

You know, its funny that you mention that, because its not the starving part. Its more the malnourishment. Im eating meals, but Im eating just salad and bland chicken. Im not getting the carbs, Im not getting the minerals or vitamins that I need during fight week. So thats when people get to where they have seizures and their stomach lining dries up and they have lots of problems. So for me, its not about being starving. Its all about the nutritional value of stuff. Its not that you get to eat, its that you get to introduce stuff in your body thats going to hang on and make you feel good, like carbs. Vitamins A, C, Ball that stuff. It all helps you hang on to weight and water.

Hydration is obviously a huge key for fighters. Anything special you do to help with hydration?

Literally all I drink outside of fight camp is beer and water. I stay away from popbeer is healthier than pop. Im not big on energy drinks or protein shakes. During camp, the biggest thing is to just drink as much water as possible. I try to get a gallon down a day when Im lifting weights. When it comes to fight time, two weeks before the fight Ill drink two gallons of water a day, which will give me about 15 pounds. Now, thats a lot of water, so youre going to be peeing a lot.

After you make weight, a lot of people dont know what to digest. Doctors have told me that Pedialyte is the best thing. It has the perfect combination of zinc, vitamins, iron, carbohydrates. Its the perfect drink for your body to digest.

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At 31 years old, Ziggy Hood has gone through some wear and tear over the course of his NFL career. To prepare for what's to come, he altered some of his offseason approach.

Despite being the oldest defensive lineman on the Washington Redskins 90-man roster by more than two years, Ziggy Hood is still the hardest working player of that group.

Hood took an offseason approach few would ever think about taking on and only a handful would actually execute: he would work out at length, sometimes as much as six hours in one day.

It wasnt anybodys idea but mine, Hood said. Like I said, I put in work, and thats what I tend to do, and I stay at it.

Now entering his ninth season in the NFL and second with the Redskins, Hood knows that he has to keep his body in peak form.

The Missouri product appeared on 661 defensive snaps last season, eighth most among returning defensive player and the most among returning defensive linemen.

Hood said he incorporated a fair among of cardio into his workout routine including some swimming, which kept his heart rate up.

I just try to stay active, Hood said. Your knees, your hips, I mean, some of the small stuff [to stay healthy]. I mean, especially when half of the one side of your body tends to be weaker than others so The knees tend to go too.

Hood also altered his diet some, too, trying to limit his carbohydrate intake and cut out eating candy.

Instead of reaching for that candy at the movie theater, Im just going to get the popcorn and walk away from it, Hood said with a smile. Sour Patch straws, or something like that, yeah, I love those. Ive got to cut back.

Hood was signed to a Reserve/Future contract last offseason following a 2015 season in which he was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars following injuries that sidelined him. Then he would sign with the Chicago Bears late in the season, but was once again released after just two games.

Hood was one of the brightest spots for the Redskins during training camp last year and the veteran turned that into a solid rebound season, appearing in all 16 regular season games with 33 tackles, three passes defensed, one sack and one fumble forced.

[What] some parts of the teams dont measure is how much heart youve got, Hood said when asked about his return to form. They can tell you how fast, how much you lift, or tell you how far you can jump, but one thing they cant measure is your heart. And then some guys fall by the wayside when it comes to that and others exceed. So I mean, I knew it was just another hurdle and challenge to me and I got over it.

With the offseason departures of Chris Baker and Ricky Jean Francois, it will be Hood who is the on-field leader of a rebuilt defensive line that now includes free agent additions Terrell McClain and Stacy McGee along with first-round pick Jonathan Allen.

Hes a great leader for that defensive line room, said Redskins head coach Jay Gruden. I think guys follow him and you see the progress of all of the defensive linemen in the strength room and it starts with Ziggy. Hes the guy who works the hardest. Were happy to have him. Hes a great leader for us.

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The ketogenic diet, described as Atkins on steroids for its focus on foods high in fat and protein and low in carbohydrates, is growing in popularity but some nutritionists warn it may not live up to the hype.

The diets proponents say that it is the best way to lose weight without feeling hungry and that it increases energy levels. Celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Adriana Lima and athletes from LeBron James to Tim Tebow have all reportedly followed some form of low carb diets.

Absolutely this diet works, New York-based registered dietitian nutritionist Maya Feller told ABC News. It is going to give people weight loss.

The ketogenic, keto for short, diet was developed in the 1920s after it was noticed that after fasting, epileptics would experience a marked reduction in their seizures. The diet is designed to get your body into a state called ketosis where your body is so low on carbohydrates it starts burning fat for fuel.

Ketosis is also what the body does when fasting.

Keto dieters drastically cut carbohydrates to about 10 percent of their daily diet, which in some cases can be just 20 grams of carbohydrates per day.

That amount of carbohydrates is equivalent to one slice of white bread per day, according to Feller.

Nutritionists also stress that followers of a keto diet should get their fat intake from healthy fats like olive oils and nuts.

Samantha Kafedzic, 31, has lost 17 pounds since starting on a keto diet four weeks ago.

Kafedzic, who admits she now eats very different meals from her daughter, said she feels better overall in addition to the weight loss.

I have more energy with this one running around, Kafedzic said, pointing to her daughter. My workouts are so much better. I definitely have more stamina.

The key to being successful on the keto diet is getting about 20 percent of your calories from protein and eating lots of fat. For some keto followers, the amount of fat could equal more than 70 percent of their diet.

The amount of fat someone following the keto diet may consume in one day could be more than five times the recommended intake for daily fat for the average American, according to Feller.

The diets critics argue that it is nearly impossible to follow long-term, could lead to muscle loss and could deprive your brain of its preferred source of fuel, carbohydrates.

Feller agrees that the keto diet is not a diet she would recommend following for an extended period of time.

The jury is out on if that is safe for the long term, she said. What most studies say is that you can follow a ketogenic diet for some months. You dont want the body to stay in ketosis long term.

ABC News' Lana Zak contributed to this report.

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The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new tax on distributors of soda pop and other sugary drinks. Diet soft drinks were exempted. The tax is expected to take effect in early July and add about $1.18 to the cost of a 2-liter bottle of soda.

The Seattle City Council on Monday approved a new tax on distributors of sugary drinks such as soda pop.

Proponents said the tax would reduce consumption of unhealthful beverages and help the city provide better access to nutritious foods in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

They said soda companies market heavily to children in those communities, where more people struggle with sugar-linked health problems such as obesity.

The vote was 7-1, with Councilmember Lisa Herbold voting no, and Councilmember Kshama Sawant absent.

A handful of other cities and counties have adopted similar taxes, including Berkeley, California; Philadelphia; and Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago.

Its a huge win for Seattle, said Victor Colman, director of the Seattle-based Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition.

Its not a panacea for the problem of childhood obesity, but its a huge marker to take this step. Consumption drops will happen, and were going to see stronger health in the communities that need this the most.

Mondays action followed months of debate over the tax, initially proposed by Mayor Ed Murray. Business groups and some labor unions warned that the plan would burden entrepreneurs and result in job losses.

There were arguments about whether diet soda would be taxed, whether the syrups in flavored lattes prepared by baristas would be taxed, what the tax rate would be and how the money would be spent.

The council ultimately settled on a rate of 1.75cents per ounce, which means the tax would be about $1.18 for a 2-liter bottle of soda.

The tax will be collected starting next year unless opponents put a referendum on the ballot and succeed in blocking the measure.

Diet soda wont be taxed, and the council also chose to exempt baby formula, medicine, weight-loss drinks and 100 percent fruit juice.

Sports drinks such as Gatorade, energy drinks such as Red Bull and fruit drinks such as Sunny D all will be taxed, along with syrups used in soda-fountain pop.

Some council members favored including diet soda, which is more popular with wealthier white consumers. That was one recommendation made after the city put the plan through a racial-equity analysis.

But other council members said the science suggesting diet soda is an unhealthful beverage is less solid than the evidence of regular soda being harmful.

The mayor initially exempted barista-made coffee beverages from the tax. Then he exempted milk drinks, instead. It remained unclear Monday whether the syrups used in flavored lattes such as those ordered at Starbucks would be taxed.

Amendments were proposed by Council President Bruce Harrell to explicitly exclude such drinks and by Councilmember Lisa Herbold to explicitly include them, but each failed. Herbold said its her understanding that lattes wont end up being taxed.

Herbold said she voted against the tax because her colleagues rejected her attempts to lower the rate and to include diet soda and lattes. She said the tax measure, as passed, would hit poor pop buyers hardest.

There were mixed messages about the reason for the tax, with some proponents saying it would discourage consumption of unhealthful beverages and others stressing the good that would be done with the revenue.

Under the mayors plan, the bulk of the revenue would have funded education programs for low-income and otherwise vulnerable children. But the council shifted the emphasis more toward healthful-eating programs.

The tax is expected to raise about $15million per year. Some money will support the citys Fresh Bucks program, which helps people using food stamps buy more fruits and vegetables at farmers markets.

And the council approved an amendment offered by Councilmember Debora Juarez calling out food banks and soup kitchens as eligible to receive funds.

Funds raised by the tax will put healthy food on the table for hungry families across our city, said Tanika Thompson, a food-access organizer for the South Seattle community organization Got Green.

Doctors and health organizations such as the American Heart Association supported the tax.

But soda companies, many convenience-store and restaurant owners and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce opposed it, as did the Martin Luther King County Labor Council and a Teamsters union with workers in the soda industry.

The council reserved up to $1.5million in the first five years of the tax to help such workers retrain for new jobs.

Husik Harutyunyan, who owns a small grocery store in North Seattle, urged the council to reject the tax.

He said his customers may begin buying pop in Shoreline if the tax leads him to raise his prices. I have to close my store and go find some job, the 44-year-old said.

A 10-year-old, Sophia Harrison, offered another view during the councils public-comment period Monday.

It is a great idea to fund programs to help kids be more prepared and to help families eat more healthy food, she said, reading from handwritten remarks.

I cant think of a better way to raise that money than a tax on something that has absolutely no nutritional value.

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Tubelip wrasses eat dangerously, daring to dine on sharp corals lined with stinging cells. New images reveal the fishs secret to safe eating: lubing up and planting a big one on their dinner.

It is like sucking dew off a stinging nettle. A thick layer of grease may help, says David Bellwood, a marine biologist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, who snapped the shots with his colleague Victor Huertas.

Of roughly 6,000 fish species that roam reefs, just 128 consume corals. These corallivores specialize in different menus. Well-studied butterfly fish, for example, use their long, thin snouts to nip up coral polyps, the tiny animals that build corals. Tubelip wrasses such as Labropsis australis of the South Pacific are known for nibbling coral with their luscious lips, but until now, it was unclear what part of the coral the fish were eating or how they were eating it.

Coral-eating tubelip wrasses slurp up their dinner with slimy lips. Folds in lip tissue make mucus, which helps the fish suck up snot from other organisms, reef corals. Arrows indicate the flow of mucus and suction in the diagram below.

While the surface of the wrasses lips looks smooth to the naked eye, convoluted grooves appear under a scanning electron microscope, the team reports June 5 in Current Biology. Mucus-producing cells line each groove. In contrast, the lips of a wrasse species that doesnt eat corals (Coris gaimard) are sleek and sport fewer slime-secreting cells.

Video footage of L. australis shows that the fish feeds by latching onto coral with its lips and sucking. The slime probably protects the fishs lips from stinging cells that line the coral skeleton and also serves as a sealant, allowing the wrasse to get suction against the corals razorlike ridges.

Their kiss is so hard it tears the corals flesh off its skeleton, Bellwood says. The team suspects that the fish feed primarily on mucus layers and sometimes tissue that lines the sharp skeleton. So, essentially the fish are using their lip mucus to better harvest the corals mucus.

Mucus is, in general, a hot commodity in the marine ecosystem. Some fish use it as sunscreen, others for speed it can reduce drag through the water. Cleaner wrasses even eat slime off the skin of other fish (SN: 8/2/03, p. 78).

Given the threats that coral reefs face from bleaching events and climate change, having fish that suck their flesh might seem a tad brutal. But whether the added stress of snot-eating fish serves as a mere nuisance or a serious threat remains to be studied.

JUST A PECK This slow-motion clip shows a tubelip wrasse closing its mouth around a piece of coral to seal the deal and suck up the other organisms mucus and tissue. Self-lubricating lips make this feeding method possible. V. Huertas and D. Bellwood/Current Biology 2017

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Sometimes when you have a lie-in at the weekend, you end up missing breakfast because its nearly lunchtime already. No big deal, right?

If youre asleep, you cant eat. And people have used this as a weight loss technique for decades.

But some are taking itto extremes - such is the thinking behind the so-called Sleeping Beauty Diet.

The diet advises sleeping for abnormally long periods of times, even using sedatives to do so, to stop yourself eating.

On the lighter end of the scale, a good nights sleep has been proven to boost health and wellbeing, but some people encourage sleeping for 20 hours a day by using sleeping pills and sedatives, which can be highly addictive.

There is also high potential for overdose. Its a big risk to take in the quest to get thin.

The idea has been seized by women in pro-anorexia online forums, where they share their regimes of extreme sleeping and fasting.

I just take some really strong pain killers they usually dope me out and I'll nap for hours. They kind [of] mess with your stomach and curb your hunger a bit so I do it all the time, wrote one.

I love sleeping to avoid food. It's pretty easy for me because I'm tired ninety-nine percent of the time, said another.

I just go ahead and fall asleep to avoid any possible binges and eating, wrote a different woman.

But experts believe the diet - if it can really be called a diet - is dangerous.

If people have to rely on medications to produce sleep - particularly [meds] like benzodiazepines, which are addictive - it's putting the person at risk of addiction, Dr. Tracey Wade, a professor at the Flinders University School of Psychology, told Broadly.

It's not only getting the body to sleep more than it needs to; they'll also have to use higher and higher dosage levels to get the desired effect.

And Dr Wade points out that if youre sleeping 20 hours a day, you cant live your life:

This is really taking it to the nth degree; they literally can't participate because they're sleeping, she says. They'd have increased social isolation, and in turn there's an impact on their mood, which can cause depression.

We know that depression also triggers disordered eating. It sounds like it would actually just push people more firmly into the vicious cycle that the eating disorder creates.

Wade believes the diet may appeal to people who are already depressed or struggling with an eating disorder: the idea of opting out of life and staying in bed might be attractive, she says.

But it doesn't talk about how you'll manage the waking hours, where you'll be very hungry and very disorientated with increasing levels of depression and nutritional deprivation.

In short, its not a good idea.

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Dear Doctor: Can the food we eat affect chronic inflammation in the body?

Dear Reader: In our previous column, we addressed the first half of a two-part question about inflammation what it is, and how it can be affected by diet. In answering the first half of the question, we discussed the two main types of inflammation and how they take place.

To (briefly) recap: Inflammation is the bodys immune response to a perceived threat. Acute inflammation, a short-lived reaction to injury, trauma or infection, causes swelling, redness, and a sensation of heat and pain. Chronic inflammation, a low-level reaction, takes place below the threshold of pain. As a result, it tends to fly under the radar. But unlike acute inflammation, which abates when the threat has been neutralized, chronic inflammation continues. It has been linked to heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, obesity and Alzheimers disease.

Does what we eat have an effect on chronic inflammation? Research shows that yes, components of certain foods can activate the inflammatory response, and others inhibit it.

Unfortunately, many staples of the modern diet encourage inflammation. Refined carbohydrates and processed foods such as chips, sodas, sugary breakfast cereals, luncheon meats, fried foods, red meat, candy bars, breakfast pastries, and that addictive blended mocha with a swirl of whipped cream all have an inflammatory effect.

Foods that combat inflammation are high in natural antioxidants and contain polyphenols, which are beneficial compounds found in plants. These include:

Dark leafy greens such as spinach, collard greens and kale Vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli Beans, which are high in fiber and antioxidants Whole grains, which are high in fiber and help with inflammation Protein sources that are high in omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon, mackerel, sardines and tuna

You dont have to completely cut out beef. But use it sparingly, more as a side dish rather than as the main event. Lose the sunflower, canola and corn oils and choose olive oil instead. Satisfy your sweet tooth with strawberries, cherries, raspberries, apples or blueberries. When you need a snack, swap out that bag of potato chips for a handful of almonds or walnuts.

While its never too late to change your diet for the better, research here at UCLA suggests that it cant be done too soon. According to the findings of a recent study, women who ate a diet high in inflammatory foods during their adolescent years had a statistically greater risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer as adults. The thinking is that chronic inflammation associated with diet contributed to the increase in breast cancer risk.

The research into inflammation and diet has good news, too. Participants in a clinical trial at Ohio State University who ate an anti-inflammatory diet high in fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains did better on bone density tests than did their chips- and sugar-eating counterparts.

How to move forward? Theres no shortage of books and cookbooks devoted to anti-inflammatory eating that can help guide your food choices. And always check with your healthcare provider before making dietary changes.

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health.

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