Can plant power can help you cross the finish line?
It was the brother of a friend that first got Philip Woodbridge curious. Woodbridge, who is now a sports nutritionist at Buckinghamshire New University in the U.K., was looking to make more of a lifestyle change, and heard that his friend’s brother — an elite soccer player in England — had gone vegan and gotten into body building.
Of course, no one would eat exclusively potatoes for their daily protein intake. Nor could they, since plant-based proteins often lack crucial components. As our bodies digest protein, we turn it into its most basic parts — amino acids — which we deploy to build our own proteins. Of the 20 amino acids, nine of them we can’t make and have to come from our diets. Animal protein sources have all nine, but a vast majority of plant proteins are missing one or two.
Vegans might have an advantage in that they typically eat less saturated fat than people on other diets. The nutrient mostly shows up in meat and dairy and can raise someone’s risk for heart disease, which is why the American Heart Association. But someone doesn’t have to be vegan to keep saturated fat levels low — just like how a runner doesn’t have to eat meat to get enough iron in their diet.
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