Summary
“Does being vegan affect your running performance?”
Nowadays, more and more people try to clean up their lives by taking new decisions. For example, sometimes they decide to be more invested in eating healthy. In fact, they go on a diet, like the vegan diet. It is sometimes used in the sport’s world. In this article, entitled “Does being vegan affect your running performance?”, the author describes his own experience as an athlete who decides to try a vegan diet and see whether this can be efficient or not for sport’s performance. He analyses if it is possible to realize his potential without meat or animal products. After this experience, the author explains that this diet helps people to understand how to eat healthier and “smarter”. This essay will show the different ideas put forward by the author to support this concept.
Firstly, the author defines the various health risks that are with meat. Indeed, people who eat too much meat have high rates of cancer or osteoporosis. The regions which have the highest incidence of cancer are all the countries which consume high levels of meat and dairy like Australia / New Zealand, western Europe and northern America reported The International Agency for Research on Cancer. Moreover, in the website runningvegan.com it is explain that people who eat too many animal proteins are those who have a high rate of osteoporosis. As Dr Luigi Fontana said in the America Journal of Clinical Nutrition, diets will be healthier if people ate less animal products and more whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables.
Secondly, the writer describes the benefits of being vegan. In fact, with this diet people get sick rarely and they have plenty of energy for sports. There are lots of vegan runners like Brits Fiona Oakes, Sally Eastall, Jack Maitland and Carl Lewis. One of them, Scott Jurek, explicates in his autobiographical Eat and Run, why he did a vegan diet: “to run faster”. Indeed, he won the Voyageur on his third try, when he
Nowadays, more and more people try to clean up their lives by taking new decisions. For example, sometimes they decide to be more invested in eating healthy. In fact, they go on a diet, like the vegan diet. It is sometimes used in the sport’s world. In this article, entitled “Does being vegan affect your running performance?”, the author describes his own experience as an athlete who decides to try a vegan diet and see whether this can be efficient or not for sport’s performance. He analyses if it is possible to realize his potential without meat or animal products. After this experience, the author explains that this diet helps people to understand how to eat healthier and “smarter”. This essay will show the different ideas put forward by the author to support this concept.
Firstly, the author defines the various health risks that are with meat. Indeed, people who eat too much meat have high rates of cancer or osteoporosis. The regions which have the highest incidence of cancer are all the countries which consume high levels of meat and dairy like Australia / New Zealand, western Europe and northern America reported The International Agency for Research on Cancer. Moreover, in the website runningvegan.com it is explain that people who eat too many animal proteins are those who have a high rate of osteoporosis. As Dr Luigi Fontana said in the America Journal of Clinical Nutrition, diets will be healthier if people ate less animal products and more whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables.
Secondly, the writer describes the benefits of being vegan. In fact, with this diet people get sick rarely and they have plenty of energy for sports. There are lots of vegan runners like Brits Fiona Oakes, Sally Eastall, Jack Maitland and Carl Lewis. One of them, Scott Jurek, explicates in his autobiographical Eat and Run, why he did a vegan diet: “to run faster”. Indeed, he won the Voyageur on his third try, when he