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Postby Cookie » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:12 pm

Keep seeing "champions" posting or saying during interviews that they are vegetarians & its got me thinking.
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Re: Vegetarianism

Postby samurai69 » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:10 am

we are omnivores..... pure and simple
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Re: Vegetarianism

Postby Cookie » Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:00 pm

samurai69 wrote:we are omnivores..... pure and simple


I was looking more along the lines of an increased intake of "vegetarian" style dishes in bring about a more alkaline system within the body to aid healing & recovery.

Don't think I could ever go full vegetarian :lol:
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Re: Vegetarianism

Postby samurai69 » Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:47 pm

Cookie wrote:
samurai69 wrote:we are omnivores..... pure and simple


I was looking more along the lines of an increased intake of "vegetarian" style dishes in bring about a more alkaline system within the body to aid healing & recovery.

Don't think I could ever go full vegetarian :lol:



balance the foods, goes back to what i was saying about the true ironman/caveman diet, with periods of fasting and starch vegetables as well as meat as and when
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Re: Vegetarianism

Postby Cookie » Tue Sep 24, 2013 8:46 am

samurai69 wrote:balance the foods, goes back to what i was saying about the true ironman/caveman diet, with periods of fasting and starch vegetables as well as meat as and when


Its the balance between the two I'm finding the hardest to achieve.
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