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The Best Diet for Athletic Performance

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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The Effect of Vegetarian Diet on Endurance

A famous series of experiments at Yale published more than a century ago on the influence of flesh eating on Endurance 49 people were compared regular athletes mostly Yale students vegetarian athletes and then just sedentary vegetarians. The experiment furnished a severe test of the claims of those flesh Obstainers much to the researchers surprise the results seem to vindicate the vegetarians Suggesting that not eating meat leads to far greater endurance Compared to those accustomed to the ordinary American diet.

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