Today you will surprise nobody with the statement any more "I am a vegetarian", however already very much with firmness the stereotype as if all vegetarians sickly, sickly "dokhleets" stuck into our minds. In turn the world as it appeared, is crowded with great athletes who achieved the heights thanks to a vegetarian diet. Perhaps, athletes vegetarians also have to be the best example of the fact that the refusal of meat is, perhaps, very great. We will also talk about them today.
Why vegetarianism?
Everyone chooses vegetarianism proceeding from own reasons: health (decrease in level of cholesterol), rights of animals, ecological reasons, philosophical and ethical views.
"Skilled" vegetarians say that in the beginning, the main thing is to get used to the new diet, already therefore it is possible to improve it and to do useful. In principle, food of the athlete of the vegetarian differs from usual only in the fact that squirrels take from vegetable food (they there too are!) and also change a ratio of products for carbohydrates: proteins: fats – 65: 13: 22.
Vitamins for vegetarians are not luxury. The huge amount of vitamins can be received at food vegetable food, and those vitamins which contain only in meat products can be complemented with special additives.
Athletes
The best-known vegetarian the athlete is Muhammad Ali – "the athlete of the 20th century", the founder of the method "flit as a butterfly, to sting as a bee", the outstanding boxer.
One more boxer – Mike Tyson, stepped into vegetarianism path after "the bitten-off ear". Repeated all-around champion of the world, champion and owner of the long list of titles.
For those who consider as if vegetarianism worsens mental capacities we will give an example of the world champion according to FIDE in chess. It is Vishvanatan Anand, the strongest in the world on "fast" chess and also on chess blitz.
As for women in the list of the famous vegetarians of athletes, here, perhaps, appropriate to mention two greatest tennis-players – Serena Williams and Martina Navratilova. Both record-holders also won everything that it is only possible to win in tennis.
Well, and those who nevertheless are sure that in bodybuilding that is precisely obligatory to eat meat it is a protein, we will try to overpersuade by means of legendary vegetarians of the bodybuilder Bill Pearl. Bill received four titles "Mr. Vselennaya", being an ovo-lacto-vegetarian.
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