Soccer star Alex Morgan is a vegan — here's why plant-based eating is a growing trend for athletes USNWT
Soccer superstar Alex Morgan is many things to many people: co-captain to her U.S. women’s national team, social media celebrity to her 8.4 million Instagram followers, Best Female Athlete of the 2019 ESPYs, wife of soccer player Servando Carrasco, and role model to women and girls around the world.
Morgan is part of the growing wave of top-tier athletes who are eliminating animal products — including meat, eggs and dairy — from the collection of foods they eat, instead embracing vegan, or plant-based, diets. “I recently turned 60 and I'm able to do stuff physically now that I could never dream of doing and I attribute a lot of that to my diet,” Loomis, who appears in the forthcoming Gamechangers, “a revolutionary new documentary about meat, protein, and strength,” tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
“Veganism, historically comes from an ethical place... and there's a lot of unhealthy stuff that's vegan,” Loomis explains. “So, a whole-food plant-based diet,” which he recommends and follows, “is vegan, but it avoids that highly processed food.”Vitamin B-12, 500 mcg a day, which vegans will need to supplement.
Iodine. “That’s one that people don't talk about, but 150 mcg is needed a day,” Loomis says. While the biggest source used to come from iodized salt, many people now use sea salt or other none-fortified types. But it can be found in sea vegetables, such as nori and dulse, as well as kelp supplements.
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