Will going vegetarian or vegan make my body weaker?!
Will going vegetarian or vegan make my body weaker?
i run track and play softball. i need to have a lot of energy.
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@yes, it will. You need protien if you are in sport. If you deciede to go vegan, many ppl quit sport becasue lack of energy and reasonable priced goods.
If you deciede to go vegan, do it durning the off season and let your body adjust.
THAT IS COMPLETE BULLSH*T!I run cross country and I always I ride my skateboard at least two hours a day.Vegetarians actually have more endurance.
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At Yale, Professor Irving Fisher designed a series of tests to compare the stamina and strength of meat-eaters against that of vegetarians. He selected men from three groups: meat-eating athletes, vegetarian athletes, and vegetarian sedentary subjects. Fisher reported the results of his study in the Yale Medical Journal. His findings do not seem to lend a great deal of credibility to the popular prejudices that hold meat to be a builder of strength.
"Of the three groups compared, the...flesh-eaters showed far less endurance than the abstainers (vegetarians), even when the latter were leading a sedentary life."
Overall, the average score of the vegetarians was over double the average score of the meat-eaters, even though half of the vegetarians were sedentary people, while all of the meat-eaters tested were athletes. After analyzing all the factors that might have been involved in the results, Fisher concluded that:
"...the difference in endurance between the flesh-eaters and the abstainers (was due) entirely to the difference in their diet.... There is strong evidence that a...non-flesh...diet is conducive to endurance."
A comparable study was done by Dr. J. Ioteyko of the Academie de Medicine of Paris. Dr. Ioteyko compared the endurance of vegetarian and meat-eaters from all walks of life in a variety of tests. The vegetarians averaged two to three times more stamina than the meat-eaters. Even more remarkably, they took only one-fifth the time to recover from exhaustion compared to their meat-eating rivals.
In 1968, a Danish team of researchers tested a group of men on a variety of diets, using a stationary bicycle to measure their strength and endurance. The men were fed a mixed diet of meat and vegetables for a period of time, and then tested on the bicycle. The average time they could pedal before muscle failure was 114 minutes. These same men at a later date were fed a diet high in meat, milk and eggs for a similar period and then re-tested on the bicycles. On the high meat diet, their pedaling time before muscle failure dropped dramatically--to an average of only 57 minutes. Later, these same men were switched to a strictly vegetarian diet, composed of grains, vegetables and fruits, and then tested on the bicycles. The lack f animal products didn't seem to hurt their performance--they pedaled an average of 167 minutes.
Wherever and whenever tests of this nature have been done, the results have been similar. This does not lend a lot of support to the supposed association of meat with strength and stamina.
Doctors in Belgium systematically compared the number of times vegetarians and meat-eaters could squeeze a grip-meter. The vegetarians won handily with an average of 69, whilst the meat-eaters averaged only 38. As in all other studies which have measured muscle recovery time, here, too, the vegetarians bounced back from fatigue far more rapidly than did the meat-eaters.
I know of many other studies in the medical literature which report similar findings. But I know of not a single one that has arrived at different results. As a result, I confess, it has gotten rather difficult for me to listen seriously to the meat industry proudly proclaiming "meat gives strength" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Nope, as long as you subsitute somthing for the protein you are losing by not eating meats.
yes, it will. You need protien if you are in sport. If you deciede to go vegan, many ppl quit sport becasue lack of energy and reasonable priced goods.
If you deciede to go vegan, do it durning the off season and let your body adjust.
If you eat correctly then it shouldn't.
Here are some athletic people who would know:
http://www.gotohealth.com/athletes/veg_a...
No, as long as you don't starve yourself. If you eat a wide range of vegetables, fruit, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds every day then you will not become weak.
Make sure you get enough protein (not usually a problem as long as you're eating a healthy diet), also enough iron (not usually a problem either, just think green, think leafy, think beany and lentily), but these things come naturally in a well balanced vegan diet anyway.
I'm not sure if you've heard of a guy called Carl Lewis - he used to be pretty good at track and field events - he was vegan during some of the greatest performances of his career. I'm sure if it's good enough for him, it will be good enough for you :)
most definately not. I have been a vegetarian since I was 6 years old (I am now 14) and I run track, play softball, soccer, fencing, and many more. I'm a normal kid, except I have to replace the protien I am not getting from the meat with other foods. There's a lot of protien in cheese, nuts, and peanut spread.
I would definetly encourage become either a vegetarian or a vegan! both are very good for you, and the other animals! :)
Not if U do it properly. Red Beets are high in Energy. So Kelp. Eat Carrots and other orange veggies like pumpkin, yams, turnips,
Oh pumpkin is actually a fruit! Don't forget fruits are most important, Veggies 2nd, 3rd
beans, greens, seeds, grains, cereals. A proper vegetarian diet will make U stronger not weaker! Learn all about vegetarianism before becoming one. There's lots of books in most libraries about being a vegetarian!
I became a vegetarian about 7 montrhs ago and i never felt better! good luck!!
I gradually became a vegetarian. I did not suffer any weakness. I stopped in eating pork, than beef, chicken, etc..until I fully stopped eating meat. I took about 6 months to change. It was very easy for me to adjust because I went one step at a time.
Answer me this.
Not eating meat or anything that comes from an animal (including eggs and milk)???
Are you a girl???
How old are you???
Do you have any health problems???
You see.... there are certain nutrients that you can only get from animal products or that are present in very low quantities or are not very available for you in vegetables such as: Protein, iron, Vitamin B12, Zinc, calcium, vitamin D and others. These are very important for you and if you are a girl you need more calcium and iron than boys, women are at risk of anemia and osteoporosis.
Many people go vegetarian without getting checked first an while on the diet never go to the doctor. Many of them feel great but their labs test say otherwise (iron deposits, BDM). You have to be responsible and be sure to get every nutrient you need, and if you don't eat enough get pills that supply your deficit.
Take care.
I ran a lot better this last season of cross-country... which, coincidentally, happens to be the first season I've been vegan.
it will unless you can keep your protein intake up. If you go this route eat lots of peanut butter and nuts for a good source of protein.