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The article claims that "there's a new performance hack taking hold in the NFL — going vegan," mentioning Tom Brady as an example. Article later clarifies that "though not vegan, his personal diet is reportedly 80 percent plant-based." So the performance hack is just eating healthy food?

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Which easily means that he does LCHF Paleo or an exceptionally clean Keto, maybe combined with OMAD, which is what I personally recommend for both physical and mental performance reasons.

I'm not saying it'll turn an everyman into a Tom Brady, but it could explain why Tom Brady performs so well against his peers (which is just enough of a gap to near-consistently win; and all of these people, even on the Browns, are all absolutely amazing athletes at the top of their field).

I can't see how an 80% plant based diet could lead to a low carb, high fat outcome. It in no way implies to me a one meal a day diet.

It sounds more to me like the DASH diet, or Mediterranean.

> even on the Browns

Sure, but what the hell is going on with the Bills?

In the second paragraph: "In 2017, a reported 11 Titans had gone vegan".

Reported by who? That’s curiously missing from the article.

edit: I double checked, and it is clearly linked. I was in reader mode before and didn’t notice the link.

Vegans have a lot more influence in the media than most people realize. There are a lot of writers who use their positions to push veganism.

They're often willing to mislead.

A non-activist writer would have given us answers to some obvious questions like "What exactly does a 300lb vegan eat in a typical week?"

Instead it moves into naked activism.

I guess I'm in the "most people" category, thanks for the pointing this out. I found someone studying this https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/the-rise-of-vegan-cultur... -- https://www.ninagheihman.com/ writing a book "Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Transformed a Fringe Movement" but it seems they are vegan, so presumably this book will just further the influence you mentioned. Do you know of any neutral academic studies of vegan influence in media?

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