Pro sports is starting to figure it out

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Michael_00005
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Pro sports is starting to figure it out

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It's pretty cool to see this news article come out on MSN, pro sports will be a big catalyst for change:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/nb ... li=BBnb7Kz

It's one of the big positives of a more open media platform, now that a handful of rich people can't buy our newspapers and dictate what to tell the public. Unbeknownst to the athletes the real benefit will be to their long term health, the faster recovery times and improved endurance is only a side benefit.

Smashter
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Re: Pro sports is starting to figure it out

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Interesting, but your headline is misleading. This is a small subset of players, in one league. Not one of the players profiled in the article has been on a vegan diet for more than a year. I'd be curious to see how many stick with it long term.

The Lakers nutritionist appears to favor the anti-vegan paleo diet.

slowtraveler
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Re: Pro sports is starting to figure it out

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Confirmation bias.

A few vegans in professional athletics but I think they exist there at around the same rate as the base rate in the population.

Michael_00005
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Re: Pro sports is starting to figure it out

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My guess is 50% or more of your pro athletes go mostly, or all plant based within 5 years:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/why-nfl ... vegan.html

The most difficult part for most people is the stigma that "was" associated with diet, that and options that people enjoy.

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