Athletes endorse a Plant Based Diet
Jonti Bolles | April 10, 2011 | no comments
We are moving our diets to more plant based, local and natural sources. As much as I try and learn about nutrition, I seem to constantly fight the protein myth that athletes can’t maintain and build their bodies on a plant based diet. I keep reinforcing myself with good examples and found some great endorsements this weekend.
Some of the following high performance athletes are vegetarian including Martina Navratilova.
Listen to her talk about how her performance has improved as she has aged and can still compete. She even puts in a plug for Raw food. Other vegetarian or mostly vegetarian athletes I discovered include Tony Gonazalez, Bill Pearl, and even Carl Lewis. Hmmm… off to snack on some veggies.
