From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 09:10:32 MDT
On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 10:05 am, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Is this verified, or just a made up list like those lists claiming that
> everybody from Thomas Jefferson to Mata Hari was a secret Libertarian or
> Illuminati or whatever....?
Most of these webpages are by the Olympic athletes themselves describing
how they trained and how they ate. It seems clear that there is a
significant fraction of Olympic athletes who believe that vegetarian
diets are superior to meat diets for performance. Even those who don't
eat veggie will temporarily turn veggie for carbo-loading just before an
event.
I am not necessarily convinced that it is necessarily superior, but it
certainly is possible to do so. Besides, I was merely countering your
assertion that no Olympic athletes had vegetarian diets. I only jumped
on this because I always jump on such sweeping statements. They are so
easy to check with Google. I was suprised at how many Olympic athletes
are promoting vegetarian diets. I guess it makes sense that they would
go into health consulting after their peak performance years are over.
So they all are promoting health foods and diet books. However, a large
fraction if not majority of these Olympic spinoff books seem to stress
vegetarianism.
To be clear, I do not think vegetarianism is automatically superior. It
is very easy to become protein deficient of B12 deficient. But it is
also very easy to eat a proper vegetarian diet as well. Just as it is
easy to eat a high-cholesterol low fiber meat diet, while it is also
easy to eat lean meat with veggies on the side. I am not arguing that
one is superior, but that either can be made healthy or unhealthy, and
both have been historical norms for different groups at different times.
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