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Can you imagine? What if the athletes and trainers has simply rolled over and said OK, sure let's throw out every bit of research that has ever been done on how diet affects athletic performance and rely on plant protein during the olympics.

I haven't followed the games that closely, but I'm sure there were already plenty of injuries and pulled muscles - which require high quality animal protein to repair.

With the way they push themselves during competition, if they'd given in and settled for a plant based diet, I'm imagining not only almost every athlete sustaining injuries that take ages to heal, but absolutely no new world records (except for perhaps the number of injuries), and athletes collapsing after their event (if they were even able to finish the event).

It would have been bad enough for the food service organizers to decide that the spectators should have very limited access to animal proteins and be stuck with tofu, oat milk, lentils, and quinoa (at prime quality meat prices), but subjecting the athletes to that is just...

I don't even have words any more for just how ridiculous and unconscionable it was of them to make that unilateral decision for everyone.

It's difficult to argue with a survival drive. But it's a false one, created by powdered carbs and artificial ingredients.

And never mind the research, just personal experience. Athletes are very ingrained in their routines - sometimes it's superstition, but much of it is real and biological. You probably can't just take chicken/pasta/whey protein people and suddenly try to feed them completely different foods and expect no reactions from their bodies in terms of performance.

Agreed. And with security as tight as it was, I'm sure most of these athletes were sort of a captive audience when it came to the food. I bet they couldn't just DoorDash a rotisserie chicken or whatever other groceries they wanted. (Though I'd be interested in hearing about what options they had if they wanted "off-campus" food.)

I've made this point before, but so many of the replacement foods for animal proteins are common allergens - so common that it's the law in many countries, including France, that they're declared and highlighted on labels. Soy, wheat, and nuts would be the big ones. The people pushing this 'sustainable' diet love to casually ignore that.

A point worth making again and again, though. There's hardly a place where people live where seasonality and local genetic adaptations doesn't matter.

Yet we have allowed shiny theories to replace the finely balanced system which created good health in all those people Weston Price studied. We came up with fake food, and it's amazing how people are starting to realize it.

Considering how any sensible thought is hard to sustain with the avalanche of plant-based propaganda. And the way they equate anything with sugar and starch with health, and everything else isn't.

It makes no sense.