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Afraid your biceps'll shrink away if you start eating less meat? Press those thoughts out of your mind. There are plenty of high-protein foods that don't come from animals, and (if you needed a reminder) going veggie even once a week will save major resources. You'll be stronger-armed and ready for action.
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Many in this comment strand demonstrate the collective ignorance when it comes to food. Americans consume way too much protein, bumping it up to the center of the plate when it should be a garnish. Your average individual is NOT a body builder, just walk around in public, and you'll notice. Your average body builder must consume roughly a ratio of one gram of protein per pound of body weight and two grams of carbohydrates per pound to grow above average amounts of muscle, which is an obscene amount. Everyday people do not need to consume anything close to these ratios. Thus, there is more than enough protein and other nutrients, save B12, available on a vegan diet for the vast majority of people in the US. If veganism and bodybuilding are your thing, there are ways, it just takes a bit more effort to stick to your principles.
The Biggest and Strongest animals on the Planet eat exclusively from the Plant Kingdom.
Starting with the Elephant, Rhino, Giraffe, Horse, Moose, etc. If you want to be strong like a Bull, eat like one instead of eating one.
I have been a vegan for over 30 years and I never go to doctors or take any medication whatsoever, I am very strong and healthy and do strenuous work in my garden everyday, it is a fallacy connoted by meatarians that animal flesh is necessary for maintaining a healthy body, in fact just the opposite is true.
Some great articles below about what the human body is anatomically designed to subsist on.
http://www.whale.to/a/frugivore_h.html
Vegan Body Builders Website and other interesting articles.
"Eating meat isn't natural"
By Micheal Bluejay
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html
It's not? Then why do we have incisors.
And a lion could eat all of those things.
Seriously, you're going to compare a 150 pound person to a creature that weighs over a tonne? It's apples and automobiles.
If you want to be strong like a Bull, eat like one.
Logical fallacy. And you know it. Is the vegetarian argument so weak that you have to resort to this?
The Blue Whale eats krill and plankton. More or less an omnivore, depending on whatever they classify plankton as these days.
I appreciate the point you are making, but make sure you get your facts straight.
Ok ....! Green People !!!! Here's the thing. We should all eat more vegetables because they are wonderful and nutritious and tasty and we can do that without being vegetarians. These headlines are so white knuckle koolaid drinking unproductive and self-righteous that YOU'RE EMBARRASSING THE VEGETABLES.
Vegetables are gracious, they get along in any cuisine, charm any crowd and are never ever boastful. Be nice. Write a recipe. Give a cooking hint. LIGHTEN UP.
I'd suggest you lighten up. Why the heavy defensiveness at the mere mention of vegetarianism?
You will have long, lean muscles, and that is just THE hottest. Bulk is out. Lean and healthy is in.
A healthy looking vegetarian. Hehehehe, that's rich.
Nonsensical statements made by uniformed biased individuals afraid someone will take away their flesh food, so they lie about the effects of a vegetarian lifestyle.
Sure there are a lot of unhealthy looking vegetarians, many individuals give up meat for moral purposes but do not understand how to proper nourish themselves, so they eat a lot of junk food like pizza and soda all day long and become very unhealthy as a result, these type of people, although well meaning, give vegetarianism a bad name.
But you only have to visit your local hospital to see the effects of a carnivorous diet before you start laughing about how impossible it is to have a strong healthy body on a veggie diet.
Check out the weight lifters below to see how muscular a vegetarian can become.
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page=articles
Ever seen a healthy looking vegetarian who wasn't on roi.ds?
Me either.
Yep. I'm one of them.
There are some great vegetarian athletes, we all know that Micheal Vick is no vegan but Bill Walton alias the Mountain Man was a prominent NBA All Star vegan, just one inch short of 7 feet, this MVP won two championships in a league of giants.
By the way, it is the meat eaters that are eating all the steroids, which they consume through the animal flesh they eat, since the meat industry gets paid by the pound they like to fatten up their animals with plenty of chemicals so they will weigh more at market, these harmful body building chemicals are passed along to the people who consume the animal after it is slaughtered.
For a list of Vegan athletes;
http://www.veganathlete.com/
Just John, please google Kenneth Williams the vegetarian body builder. he's got quite a body and a following!
And he's half as big as his counterparts.
And he is probably still twice the size of you or me.
Absoliutely you will be less muscular. let me count the ways...taurine, creatine, carnitine, probably many more.
Do you *actually* believe vegetarian foods don't have those?
I've seen some big vegetarian body builders. But, they don't get there nearly as fast. I think one of the main reasons is the bovine steroids in beef.
They have to take creatine and other amino acid supplements.
Creatine occurs in meat, not vegetables.
Athletes have not been natural since the invention of steroids. Go find photos of the top body builders before about 1950 compared to the freaks we have now.
Very true. Also, those 1950s athletes didn't randomly drop dead.
Bingo! Probably from a combination of the hormones in meat now and all the crazy supplements that people use.
Alot of useless, well known information in this article. Not sure what the point of it is about. But I would like someone to explain to me this grandiose claim...
"A meatless diet is 50% more effective at cutting CO2 than switching from a standard car to a hybrid."
How so? Takes quite alot of tractors just to harvest the crops, then after that, just as many semi's to haul it to market as it would take to haul beef to the market. I'd be willing to say that eating farm foods probably contributes 50% more co2 than not.
Topsoil stripping and nitrate pollution are both nasty, unaddressed issues. And don't come back to me with "what about sustainable farming?" Most people can't afford food produced from sustainable farming.
And somewhere in your irrational rant, I completely realized you didn't even make a point. So, what was your post about anyways?
Eh, that is a odd question.
Plant based proteins have lower biological values(percentage-wise, they don't work as well), but they have other health benefits that animal based proteins don't. You can also just eat more of the plant source to shore off the differences.
Plant based proteins are rarely complete, but if you eat from a variety of sources(beans, nuts, etc) that isn't a problem.
I wouldn't say one is immediately superior or inferior to the other, they just suit different lifestyles.
Wow, the intersection of TWO movements I have no interest in: Body building and vegetarianism.
Why not throw in line dancing, skeet shooting, Hello Kitty collecting, tattoos and elective surgery, while you're at it?
(Not that I would argue with anybody's right to follow any of these, should they so choose.)
Aw man, you made me spit out my coffee!
Perfect !
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First Posted: 06-17-09 02:11 PM | Updated: 07-18-09 05:12 AM