Why Focus on Whole Foods?

Doing regular searches on Google, I came upon the above chart that focuses on 80% vegan whole foods and limiting processed vegan foods to no more than 20%.

And it hit me…

Yesterday, I watched the Game Changers again. One of the athletes they followed in the movie was the Tennessee Titans defense. At least 15 of the Titans players have been vegan all or most of the time. Derrick Morgan, a retired Tennessee Titans linebacker, has been vegan since 2017. Eventually, his wife Charity, a Le-Cordon Bleu-trained chef started cooking vegan meals. Eventually Charity went vegan herself. Then Derrick’s former teammates would follow and pretty soon almost all of the Titans defense went vegan. Although Derrick Morgan retired, a lot of the players that went vegan with him are still playing according to the roster. Earlier today, I just watched the Titans upset the Kansas City Chiefs. The defense blocked a kick by Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker to try to tie the game as Titans were leading 35 -32. The Titans’ victory over the Chiefs has shown that a vegan diet does improve athletic performance.

Roman Gladiators Were Mostly Vegetarian

According to this study, the same Roman gladiators who fought each other and fought lions and tigers at the Colosseum and Roman amphitheaters ate a mostly vegetarian diet according to anthropological findings carried out on the bones of warriors found during an excavation in the ancient Roman city of Ephesos (now modern-day Turkey). The study was conducted by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the MedUni Vienna and the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern. Bones were examined from a gladiator cemetery uncovered in 1993, which dates back to the 2nd and 3rd century BC in Ephesos. Ephesos was the capital of the Roman province Asia with a population of 200,000 people. The researchers used spectroscopy to study stable isotope ratios such as carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. They also studied the ratio of strontium to calcium in the bones.