Comments on: Vegan Athletes

By: James Reno

James Reno — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:22:13 +0000

I enjoyed this article. Lot of great points. In addition you may want to check out the Athletes portion of this site below. Raw-Food-Repair.com

By: Tonya Kay

Tonya Kay — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:06:01 +0000

Thanks for mentioning me in your (raw) vegan athletes list. It can be done and I’m under the opinion that it SHOULD be done.

I know that a lot of vegetarian athletes are looking for community: other people who are doing it, like them. Some people are also looking for scientific information to answer their sports nutrition questions. I want to share with you a publication I released this year – the first ever “Raw Nutritional Analysis” at http://kayosmarket.com. It is the first nutritional research on the raw vegan diet (mine!) to be made available to the public.

As your article stated, I am a professional athlete and long term raw vegan. The protein count speaks for itself in this publication. When someone asks where you get your protein, now you can tell them facts instead of philosophy!

By: Lane

Lane — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:00:14 +0000

Hi Benjamin. That’s wonderful, glad to hear it!

Natalie – we figured it would be good to provide that information. And really, it’s information we were easily able to compile. I’m sure there are many more veg*n athletes out there.

Alex — Excellent – and we don’t have much overlap!

Gary – I will definitely add the “you don’t see any vegans in the cardiac /cancer wards” rejoinder to my repertoire!
As for the health arguments against veganism. I think #1 is the primary concern of most people. I also believe that we are so brainwashed by the meat and dairy industries, that unless we make a concerted effort to do our own research, we probably think we know enough. After all, we’ve been eating for our entire lives and most of us don’t appear to be malnourished.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:30:34 +0000

Thanks, this is a useful list and quick rejoinder to a common “challenge question.”

If “You don’t see many…” is a guideline for one’s behavior, perhaps a more relevant observation is that you don’t see many vegans in the cardiac and cancer wards.

My view, these days, is that most health arguments against veganism usually stem from two types of fear:

1 – Fear of leaving a comfort zone and venturing into unknown territory. (“What would happen if I gave up meat, dairy and eggs? Would I be tired? Hungry? Unsatisfied? )

2 – Fear of the awful, self-incriminating truth: If you can convince yourself that a vegan diet is unhealthy, then you can superficially justify killing animals.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:17:02 +0000

I also wrote a post discussing this topic here:

http://www.not-quiteright.net/tvg/2008/04/carl-lewis-is-one-of.html

Thanks for the links…they are informative.

By: Sheltie Girl

Sheltie Girl — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:09:38 +0000

This is a wonderful list of vegan atheletes and so many great sites to visit. Thanks for posting this info.

Natalie @ Gluten a Go Go

By: Benjamin Jones

Benjamin Jones — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:21:03 +0000

Usually when people on the cycling team figure out I’m a vegan they’re pretty shocked. I’m not very fast, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt healthier out exercising than I do now (I ran marathons as a omnivore and a vegetarian).