Vegetarian diets and Athleticism

Zen Celt
I don’t think you’ll find calories a problem if you eat little and often same as anyone training should. The main problem will be protein to rebuild your damaged muscle fibre afterwards. Compare the amounts of protein you get from meat or fish to that in vegetable products (btw this is no exact science anyway, as it’s all based on dry-burnt weight which is not necessarily pure protein but you’ll get the idea)… it’s not impossible: it is difficult and boring.

Lots of raw eggs, lots more raw egg whites, and if you’re still eating cheese that’s a good one with bread (or pref toast as it’s easier to digest) for combining the essential amino acids for easy absorption, though if you’re serious, watch out for the rennet source. In the UK 90% is vegetable simply because it’s cheaper and easier to supply and produce, but I don’t know about the US.

Oh, and if you could pick off some slow moving cabbage-like matter like inic, you’d be doing us all a favour, and I’m sure he’s packed with protein…:eek: :smiley:

Mat

What’s “rennet”?
-ZC

Rennet is here .

Some disheartening information is here .

A straighter scientific source is here .

The GM rennet mentioned in the last one is what I had discovered to be a lot more common than the actual cattle-based one in my days studying genetics.

Anyway, good luck!

Don’t forget, you’re gonna have to draw a line somewhere: if you’re really serious about vegetarianism for all lickle bunnies’ souls, the only way is strict veganism; if you’re serious about it because of opposition to stoopid farming techniques, it’s easier, but I’d recommend practising letter-writing and constantly asking questions of the FDA, and the various other quangos and shady NGOs in the wings of the agriculture department; if you just want to satisfy yourself you are doing what you can to be relatively humane under the circumstances you will not be completely avoiding products that damage the lives of some animal, some part of the environment, or someone, but that shouldn’t stop you!

Just don’t preach it, and don’t have some omnivorous **** tell you ‘Haah hah, your shoes are leather’… you will almost invariably be better informed than he, and therefore you’ll live longer and healthier.

Originally posted by inic
Meeting a ton of japanese people here, but well… most (mainly teh girls) tend to be a little too passive or stuck up for my taste.
Yeah, if I was gonna go with any tendency kind of thing, that would come close. Won’t tell you the tendencies of the Yanks I meet over here tho! :stuck_out_tongue: … or the Brits :frowning: !

:smiley:

And what’s with so many of them trying to be all ghetto?
Dunno. Everybody thinks they are silly. Even passive, say-nothing sheeple laugh at thm! The good news is, if someone comes up to me with their jeans around their knees, I know they ain’t gonna gimme any trouble!

Mind you theres never any trouble here anyway… boring really, would go fight some US navy but they’re too fat and take too many drugs to be any competition… now where are those Marines Corp…?!:smiley: