Vegans also hold out that many of the modern diseases, such as diabetes, heart diseases and hypertension are caused by excessive consumption of animal products that are laden with cholesterol. They were more health conscious having taken the effort to make it at home.įor any runner / athlete it throws up the immediate question, “How do I get my proteins?” Vegans hold out that the animal / dairy / poultry industry has bombarded the message so strongly in the public mind that without consumption of their end products, there is a strong fear of being deficient in meeting the protein needs. It is also referred to as a plant based diet.Ī typical US diet.here is a couple eating Fried Chicken for breakfast at an American airport. So this means no eggs or animal milk / dairy or honey. Scott Jurek is a Vegan and does not consume ANY animal product.

His own website gives more details about him at Those who have read Christopher McDougall’s book Born to Run will recollect that Scott Jurek is prominently featured in that book as the runner who almost beat Arnulfo in the race with the Tarahumaras ( ) I also later learnt that he had a whole string of endurance running event wins including Western States 100 ( ) Spartalathon ( ) etc. I have known of Scott Jurek from a little bit after I first saw the film on Badwater Ultra ( ) shared by my running friend Amit Sheth when I saw that he was a two time winner of the gruelling event. I do not want to be presumptuous and call it ‘Book Critic’ or ‘Book Review’ since I have no intention of posing as an expert on the topic of the books that I read, hence will be titling my series as ‘Book Knowledge Sharing’ I have been wanting to, for a long time, to share what I have found interesting in the various books on running that I have been reading.

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