Grosjean: Vegan diet 'negative' for endurance athletes

I think the world champion might disagree with you on that point. He seems to be doing just fine.

He has yet to se Game Changers... Brendan Brazier, Rich Roll etc, etc would disagree.

Even skipping the diary and its bi-products is not a great idea especially during the young age. I wish and hope Hamilton understands its influence on the teens and kids. But, then again, if its a good business, who would care.

meat is just toxic, time to admit that

He does have a point. There are a few benefits from a less meat intense diet, but there are some nutrients in meat that is much harder to get in decent amounts from a strictly vegan diet. Iron, B12 and folate are all best aquired from meat.

It's really not correct for him to speak in such generalities. There are many endurance athletes that do very well on vegan or vegetarian diets. A good example of that is long distance runners from some African countries who are reported to eat very little meat. There have also been quite a few studies about how a meatless diet can be very good for endurance. I had some pretty severe health problems when I was in my late 20s and I was not eating any meat but did eat dairy and eggs at that time. My problems stemmed mostly from food allergies rather than not eating meat. But the important principle that I was introduced to and learned quite a bit about is a concept called biochemical individuality. Simply put what is good for one is not necessarily good for another. It largely comes down to genetics, chemical processes in the body, and quality of proteins, carbs, and other vital nutrients one is putting into their body, and not whether one gets those nutrients from meat or not. In the US most of the meat is very poor quality and creates a lot of health problems for many people such as heart disease, high cholesterol related diseases, obesity, and even arthritis. I have a friend who had debilitating arthritis for decades and it went away when she stopped eating meat. It's true in other countries as well to varying degrees. Some of the best quality and least tainted meat products I have ever had was when I was living in France, so maybe he gets better quality nutrients from meat there. Still, I don't agree with the generalization and many people have proven that what he says isn't true. Hamilton sure seems to be in the best shape of his life and I challenge anyone to drive 50 or 60 laps in a race car or even a go cart for that matter and say it's not an endurance sport. Biochemical individuality is real and everyone needs to get in tune with what works best for keeping their own body healthy and performing optimally. To each his own. In India they have a saying that life feeds on life, whether it is plant or animal, life is sustained by consuming some other form of life, so do what works for you but it's kind of not cool to say because it doesn't work for you that it doesn't work for everyone else. I eat very little meat these days, mostly fresh seafood and eggs with the occasional chicken and red meat products, but my body doesn't feel good when I go that way with the heavy meat products, and it's terrible for human digestion in general taking several days to pass through the body as opposed to hours with plant based foods. But again, you can't knock genetics. I'm sure we've all heard stories of old men and women living well into or past their 90s eating meat 2-3 times a day and drinking vodka and smoking cigars or cigarettes their entire life. Native people in the Arctic have been living largely on animal blubber for how many thousands of years? Nuff said, and more than I've ever posted about this topic on any public forum. For what it's worth.

I can’t believe that an article about what Hamilton eats has generated so many comments!
It is a pretty sad state of affairs that the diet of the World Champion is more controversial than the stewards recent questionable judgements and the farce that was Q3 at Monza.