Vegetarian Athletes Show Greater Endurance

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1907

Vegetarian Athletes Show Greater Endurance

PROF. IRVING FISHER, the Yale diet expert, has just made known some interesting facts in reference to recent endurance tests which substantiate the theory that non-flesh-eating athletes outclass those who subsist on a meat diet. The endurance tests consisted in holding the arms in a horizontal position as long as possible, in deep-knee bending, and in leg raising. In each of these contests the vegetarians exceeded the flesh eaters. Only two of the latter were able to hold the arms in a horizontal position more than fifteen minutes, while twenty-two of the thirty-two vegetarians exceeded that length of time. Of these, nine stood out the hour, four two hours, and one more than three hours. In the other tests practically the same results were attained, proving beyond question the superiority of the non-flesh diet in building endurance tissue.