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More and more athletes are going vegan. The Netflix documentary Game Changers debunked several myths about it and showed the positive effects of eliminating animal meat consumption on sports performance.
When eating plant based meat, athletes get the same protein intake as the animal meat without the animal fat. As an example, plant based chicken Heura has the same protein as chicken but 3 times less fat.
La Liga football players as FC Barcelona goalkeeper Mar Ter Stegen or Atlético de Madrid Saúl Ñíguez, Aaron Ñiguez at Málaga CF or Gerard Gumbau and Jordi Calavera at Girona have recently shared images on Instagram eating Heura, the Spanish plant based meat brand.
The FC Barcelona Ter Stegen player recently commented in an interview that during the lockdown he was following a vegetarian diet. Elite athletes from other sports are also going vegan. As an example of it, Pol Espargaró, who decided to adopt a diet without animal products in order to conquer the MotoGP.
