From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 20:36:11 MDT
On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 06:07 pm, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> My gripe is the claim that anybody can life off such diets. They can't.
> How many Olympic athletes or bodybuilders achieve their victories on
> vegan diets? Zero. In an environment which is very physically demanding,
> a vegan diet doesn't provide what is needed.
Sorry, Mike, but you are misinformed on this one. Dr. David Ryde is a
longtime vegetarian spent 15 years as medical adviser for the British
Olympic teams. His and other studies shows that vegetarian diets
increase strength, stamina and endurance. Many olympic athletes go
veggie because of the increased performance. Even those that don't do
carbo-loading and forgo meat just before a big event.
A quick Google search finds this list of vegetarian olympic and other
athletes:
<http://www.afpafitness.com/Vegetarians.htm>:
Carl Lewis = 9x Olympic Gold winner
Dave Scott = 4x World Champion Iron Man triathlete
Sixto Linares = World Record Holder longest triathlon ever
Susie Wood = NZ representative duathlete, Yacht racer
Paavo Nurmi = Olympic Gold middle distance runner (20 world records)
Edwin Moses = Olympic Gold 400m hurdler
Bill Misner = former holder American Ultradistance record
Robert Sweetgall = World Champion ultradistance walker
Liisa Veijalainen = World Champion orienteerer
Sean Yates = Professional cyclist (Tour de France stage winner)
Murray Rose = 4x Olympic gold swimmer
Bill Pickering = English Channel swim record
Billie Jean King = Tennis champion
Martina Navratilova = Tennis champion
Surya Bonaly = French Olympic figure skater
Bill Walton = Basketballer Desmond Howard = Professional American
football
player
Chris Campbell = Olympic medallist wrestler
Stan Price = World record holder in bench press
Bill Manetti = Powerlifting champion
Andreas Cahling = "Mr International" bodybuilder
Bill Pearl = 4x "Mr Universe"
Roy Hilligan = "Mr America"
And this seems to be a short list. My google search came up with dozens
and dozens of olympic athletes who were vegetarian.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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