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> If you're a professional athlete trying to be vegan, then sure, you'll end up with a weird diet Professional athletes that are actually vegan are 4 sigma out
by zer8k 2y ago
> If you're a professional athlete trying to be vegan, then sure, you'll end up with a weird diet
Professional athletes that are actually vegan are 4 sigma outliers. For most normal humans it's not possible to even be a more-that-casual athlete in any competitive sport eating plants. Animal meats contain more than just protein including things like iodine, creatine, vitamin D, etc. A quick google brings up numerous studies on the nutritional deficiencies of the typical vegan diet you would need to rely on external supplementation for. Keto diets and other fad diets are also not great for the competitive athlete.
If you're vegan because you don't want to eat animals there's nothing wrong with it. When the vegans start pointing to the outliers as evidence "it can be done" it's just a deep cope to make everyone as miserable as them.
- nicpottier 2y agoI'm vegan and athletic. I get about .7g/lb of protein a day which by most any measure is enough for anybody save people doing steroids. People approach veganism as "take out the meat", which leads to nutritional deficiencies. You can't do that, you basically have to reboot the way you eat. I tracked all my food for months when switching to learn what mix of foods gave me the nutrition I needed. Now it is habit and pretty easy. The only new thing I supplement with is vitamin B12 and a protein shake after workouts. (I did the protein shake before being vegan so no change there) It isn't miserable at all, we love how we eat.
- xenospn 2y agoYour comment makes no sense. I know plenty of professional vegan athletes. None of them are outliers and they’re all perfectly healthy.
- zer8k 2y agoIm sure they are.