Plant-based diet in sport

Sportspeople must eat meat. Plants don’t contain all the ingredients they need in their sports diet. Such statements were still popular a few years ago. Nowadays, the opinion about vegan sportspeople is changing. Citizens of the Western world, mainly Americans, were the pioneers in this field. They showed the world that a person on an appropriately balanced plant-based (vegetarian and vegan) diet might achieve great results in sport. Many meat-eaters probably wonder how it’s possible and why. It’s perfectly explained by Oktawia Nowacka – a Polish pentathlete who won the bronze medal during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She says, “If we want our car to be more dynamic and efficient for a longer time, we pour better gasoline into it. Why, then, should I pour all the worst things into my own body?”
The positive influence of plant-based diet on sportspeople is certainly confirmed by the fact that Oktawia’s first season after the dietary revolution was her best one: she won the World Cup, climbing the podium in every competition she attended.

An appropriately balanced plant-based diet in sport may bring about many benefits to the body as well as sports achievements. An excellent example of this is Oktawia Nowacka – a Polish pentathlete who won the bronze medal during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the first season after switching to a plant-based diet, she won the World Cup, climbing the podium in every competition she attended.

An appropriately balanced plant-based diet in sport may bring about many benefits to the body as well as sports achievements. An excellent example of this is Oktawia Nowacka – a Polish pentathlete who won the bronze medal during the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the first season after switching to a plant-based diet, she won the World Cup, climbing the podium in every competition she attended.