“Is it possible to be a good bodybuilder and be a vegan? Yes,” said Jose Antonio, the chief executive of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. “But is it ideal? No.”
Vegan bodybuilders may face challenges getting sufficient amino acids, found in meats, Antonio said, adding that although protein can be found in vegetables and nuts, they must be consumed in greater quantities to get the same amount as their counterparts in meat. “The amount of rice and beans you need to eat would fill up a Mexican restaurant,” he said.
Other nutritionists and bodybuilders have argued that a disciplined vegan diet, consisting of things like hemp-based protein supplements, peanut butter, nuts, vegetables and legumes, can yield similar, if not better, results than a meat- or dairy-filled diet. Carefully monitored, vegans can get the same amount of protein with less fat or toxins, they argue. (For a midafternoon snack, Sitko sometimes eats 10 bananas.)
New York Times: Sculptured by Weights and a Strict Vegan Diet
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It’s a bad idea to fetishize intelligence, or to think that vegetarianism is going to make you a genius, but I found this list of famous vegetarian geniuses interesting:
1. Sir Isaac Newton
2. Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Srinivasa Ramanujan
4. Nikola Tesla
5. Thomas Edison
6. Albert Einstein
7. Edward Witten
8. Brian Greene
9. Alan Calverd
Elephant Journal: The World’s Greatest Geniuses are Vegetarians!
See also: Vegetarianism all the rage in MMA
And, because it’s bound to come up, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Hitler’s vegetarianism. Some question whether he was really a strict vegetarian, despite contemporaneous accounts.
From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/02/25/top-9-vegetarian-geniuses/
It’s a bad idea to fetishize intelligence, or to think that vegetarianism is going to make you a genius, but I found this list of famous vegetarian geniuses interesting:
1. Sir Isaac Newton
2. Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Srinivasa Ramanujan
4. Nikola Tesla
5. Thomas Edison
6. Albert Einstein
7. Edward Witten
8. Brian Greene
9. Alan Calverd
Elephant Journal: The World’s Greatest Geniuses are Vegetarians!
See also: Vegetarianism all the rage in MMA
And, because it’s bound to come up, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Hitler’s vegetarianism. Some question whether he was really a strict vegetarian, despite contemporaneous accounts.
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/xS3329LdtWU/
