While many people are paying close attention at the Olympic
games, few might know that among the Olympian athletes there are and
have been many vegetarian ones. Featured in this article is Lizzie
Armitstead, who won on Sunday Great Britain's first medal of the
Olympic Games, taking silver in the grueling 87-mile road cycling
race. She shares about the six months she spent last year living and
training with some of Kenya's greatest long-distance runners, for
her book, “Running with the Kenyans”. These athletes, although not
strictly vegetarian, ate very little meat, just on special occasions
such as weddings or funerals. Armitstead highlights the fact that
the list of gold medals the Kenyan athletes have won is impressive.
Please visit Olympic vegetarians: the elite athletes who shun
meat:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/jul/30/lizzie-armitstead-vegetarian-athletes-olympics-2012?newsfeed=true
Once again, the fact that many Olympic athletes do so well on a
vegetarian diet should erase the myth of vegetarians being frail and
undernourished. After all, God’s ideal world for us, the Garden of
Eden, was vegan (Genesis 1: 29-30).
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