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Nutrition is taken as the biggest part of body building, but it is really just a piece of the ice berg bearing in mind that there are other essentials in body building including exercise and rest to complete the whole cycle. There are various categories of people who engage in body building and they are all varied in their characteristics. Vegetarians also engage in body building and they also have to choose their diets well enough to suit the body’s nutrition requirements.
It is simply untrue for those people who think that a vegetarian cannot be successful in the bodybuilding process as a result of their choice of meals. Planning is what is required to ensure that there is optimal nutritional intake for the vegetarian engaging in body building; with a variety of available protein sources the main thing to consider is ...Posted in: Nutrition | | Comments (1)
I can weigh in on this because I have been a vegetarian for over 16 years. Everyone asks why. For me it's not that big of a deal really. It's not my religion or anything. I am a Christian, and therefore have no dietary restrictions. Although I am a Catholic, and we practice abstinence from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. Here is one reason I do not eat meat. It is a form of fasting. I also practice the type of fasting where I go days without eating at all. Of coarse these periods of time are coupled with prayer, contemplation and meditation. Fasting without prayer is called... starving. There is absolutely no point to it, except for loosing weight. It is very amazing what happens to your soul and spirit and even your body when you practice ...Posted in: Nutrition | | Comments (0)





