--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberat...@...> wrote: > > I don't always disagree with Turq, but I do disagree with the general mindset that the individual choice to be a vegetarian means that the individual lacks basic strength and aggression. > > I got into an argument with a Marine one time about eating meat. He argued that vegetarians were mentally and physically weak. I was not a devout vegetarian, but did eat a predominantly veggie diet, and I challenged him to any form of physical contest. Of course he denied, he wasn't very strong at anything. But I remember in the conversation I argued that Frank Zane(3 time Mr. Olympia in the 70's and 80's) was a vegetarian. So the idea that vegetarianism = pacifist is void. > > It is true, that most people willing to commit to a vegan lifestyle have personal avoidance of aggression, but I think it's more due to the lack of necessity for it rather than the lack of potential for it. >>
Yep, even lazy vegetarians have more endurance than athletic meat-eaters: "Of the three groups compared, the... flesh-eaters showed far less endurance than the abstainers (vegetarians), even when the latter were leading a sedentary life." Overall, the average score of the vegetarians was over double the average score of the meat-eaters, even though half of the vegetarians were sedentary people, while all of the meat-eaters tested were athletes. A comparable study was done by Dr. J. Ioteyko of the Academie de Medicine of Paris. Dr. Ioteyko compared the endurance of vegetarians and meat-eaters from all walks of life in a variety of tests. The vegetarians averaged two to three times more stamina than the meat-eaters. Even more remarkably, they took only one-fifth the time to recover from exhaustion compared to their meat-eating rivals. Wherever and whenever tests of this nature have been done, the results have been similar. Doctors in Belgium systematically compared the number of times vegetarians and meat-eaters could squeeze a grip-meter. The vegetarians won handily with an average of 69, whilst the meat-eaters averaged only 38. As in all other studies which have measured muscle recovery time, here, too the vegetarians bounced back from fatigue far more rapidly than did the meat-eaters."" -- http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/books/dietamerica.html <http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/books/dietamerica.html> OffWorld
