This morning Kristen found Tim VanOrden’s Running Raw on YouTube. Tim is an amazing runner who eats and promotes a raw food, vegan diet to athletes on his blog Running Raw. Tim is a persuasive speaker and his blog is marvelously entertaining and educational. Tim proves that an amazing athlete can thrive on a raw food vegan diet.
tim doesn’t eat protein
In one of his video’s Tim comments on his “lack of protein. ” Any educated vegan should know that they get enough protein because protein is in everything. However, Tim who doesn’t eat legumes, seeds, nuts or soy openly admits that he completely defies the protein myth, and he’s got the athletic ability to prove athletes don’t need protein. He is the counter example that disproves the belief.
John Robbins is also a tri-athlete and every time someone like Donahue asked John about how athletes could possibly survive on a vegan diet, John gave the simple answer that he is a tri-athlete. What’s great about Tim’s work in promoting a healthy plant-based diet, is that Tim has both the nutrition knowledge and an amazing athletic gift to make a great role model. Tim is proving everyday that he can out perform younger meat-eating athletes.
running on candy
I particularly liked his video on the Sears tower race, where he takes second place in an amazing feat of athleticism. In the post race interview of the winning athlete, the 22 year old kid admits, while laughing, that he ate nothing before the race but a Snickers bar. The kid is an amazing talent, hopefully Tim’s example will rub off him because there’s no telling how great the young man could become if he weren’t racing on candy bars.
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