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Historical examples of successful plant-based athletes range from gladiators in ancient Rome to Tarahumara Indians who ran 160-mile races (six marathons in a row) for fun. But it wasn't until the last century or so that testing, they claimed, showed beyond a reasonable doubt that athletes who regularly ate meat showed “very…inferior endurance” even to sedentary vegetarians. That means they are different from vegetarian athletes. They only won because they trained harder. there is A plant-based diet certainly has its benefits, such as more antioxidants to combat “exercise-induced oxidative stress” and the anti-inflammatory properties of many plant-based foods, which can “accelerate muscle recovery” and promote strength recovery. But do you have to eat this way for years, decades, or even your whole life to reap these obvious benefits?
Take two men in Texas who eat a regular Texas diet, give them a “maximal exercise test,” then ask them to cut out meat for four days, tell them about the existence of bean burritos, and then guess what happens after four days? I tested again over a few days, measured how long it took me to fatigue, and increased the speed on the treadmill to see how many minutes I could go without falling over. And there was a significant difference, preferred Eating a vegetarian diet increases the time to fatigue by about 13%. Each of the five subjects “had a longer time to exhaustion…” [the] vegetarian diet.”
But can anyone tell me the fatal flaw in this study? Can anyone catch it? They were all in the same order. First we ate meat, then vegetables. And secondly, you may get better results each time you take the test because you become more familiar with it. If you then go back to eating meat and your performance deteriorates on the third test, Then You may be onto something, but this isn't very far-fetched. And even if the effect is real, it may be a function of improved glycogen stores by eating more carbohydrates rather than meat reduction per se.
Have you ever heard of 5K if you put a vegetarian versus omnivore diet on an athlete in a 621 mile race? That's 1000,000!—and be sure to design both diets so that they consume approximately the same proportion of carbohydrates, have the same finishing speed, and have a total time within just a few hours of each other.
The same goes for sprints. Randomize people into either a vegetarian or mixed diet group and see no significant difference in sprint power between the two groups. They concluded that “acute” vegetarianism had no apparent side effects but no significant effects. profit Which one.
The same goes for strength training. If you measure the “maximum voluntary contraction” of your biceps and quadriceps “before and after each diet period,” there is no significant difference either way. Take a look at a synthesis of all the studies comparing physical performance in these types of randomized controlled trials. Here, they have people eat more plant-based foods for just a few days or weeks and say: When it comes to strength, strength, and aerobic exercise, it’s a diet-based diet and an omnivore diet.”
But in the long run, a plant-based diet can benefit both endurance and endurance. and health. “While athletes are most concerned with performance, [more plant-based] The diet also provides long-term health benefits and reduces the risk of chronic disease. It is associated with a reduced risk of developing coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in men and women. Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, cataracts, dementia.” It doesn't matter how much you die.
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