SNACK BREAK: Interpreting Plant-Based Nutrition Research. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Ever heard someone say "well the research says..." and then spout off something that sounds pretty f*ing crazy? 

Yeah. Us too. 

As much as we'd like to believe that all research is well designed and totally excellent, it's not. So in today's episode we're giving you a few tips for examining research papers. We're also diving into a couple of papers on plant-based nutrition that we thought were pretty interesting. If you like being grounded in facts, we think you'll like this episode. 

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SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE: 
Berkeley Article
Link: https://pha.berkeley.edu/2021/04/11/benefits-of-plant-based-diets-in-athletic-performance/

New Zealand Diet Study (Wright et. al.)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28319109/

Exercise Capacity of vegan, lacto-ovo-vegetarian and omnivorous recreational runners
Link: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-019-0289-4

 

Lean and mean? Associations of level of performance, chronic injuries and BMI in sport climbing- Dr. G

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326274/