I don't think anyone is arguing the western diet is turd.
Define fit and healthy? Some of the 'healthiest' or 'athletic' people have died at early ages.
Also, what's with the Bolt thing? The guy eats meat and poultry
You could be the fittest guy on the planet, if your heart explodes tonight you're done. You could eat the best food of anybody you know. It's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that your fitness is directly linked to your health and longevity. People say "He's so fit, he's the healthiest person". Well the fittest people in our nation are the pro-atheletes. They're all kids between 20-30, almost all of them but they're the sickest people per capita as a group. Demographically the pro-athletes are the sickest people.
1. They're taking drugs like there's no tomorrow.
2. They're taking recreational drugs since uni when they didn't have to pass the tests, they were the ones going to the parties.
3. They eat double, triple, quadriple what we eat depending on their sport but they eat worst than us. They eat the WORST food because they're athletes. Their bodies seem apparently to burn it off better than less active people. They're blowin through fuel like a jet rather than a little car.
So they're eating the worst food and 3x as much of it, taking drugs and partying (see Bolt clubbing).
Did I mention they can get drugs from their doctors to help them grow big and strong? These guys are freaks of nature, these big dudes (and ladies now). Your liver, your kidneys can't take it. Once they retire they all get fat or die from the drugs in their 40's. Look at the tour de france guys from 98! Just watch the Youtube interview with ex-steroid users who have had heart surgery. They aren't healthy.
If you break fitness into three categories, what you get is the least fit people live the shortest. The most fit people live the longest and direct correlation of all the fitness levels in-between. But fitness is not health, it's only one of the dogs in that whole group of dogs. I agree about athletes dying at early ages I mean how many times do you see people soo suprised that someone they knew who they thought were healthy died? They could be playing tennis on Thursday perfectly healthy. Perfectly healthy people don't die on Friday after playing tennis on Thursday, very sick people do. I've seen my own Grandad suffer a heart attack and he's 68 an avid cyclist, I thought he was really healthy. You gotta be really sick, people are tough. Ever seen anybody die. They don't go out easy.
No vegan is gonna die tonight. I wonder how many few thousand people could get together and one of them wouldn't die that night. Veganism is amazing.
**Yes but athletes are always looking for something better. 25 years ago when athletes ate steak they thought it was the thing but now athletes are eating starch. Except for some athletes. You watch cyclists riding down the road, those Tour De France guys are pulling bananas out of their back shirt, they pass the car and the guy sticks a couple more bananas in there. Every 10 miles or so they're eating another banana. Tennis players are eating bananas on the sidelines. I'm not gonna say it's because of the bananas but it's sure not in spite of them. More and more athletes are eating fruit.
Usain Bolt also loves chicken nuggets too. Might want to watch this, skip to two minutes in.
I saw it on top gear years back. So what if he eats some bad food, he said it straight out his mouth that eating fruit is key. He did not say chicken nuggets! Thing is Bolt knows what he 'should' be eating but he chooses the unhealthy option. Yeah his coach can't force him to eat healthy. Everyone knows fruit and vegetables are the healthiest foods but most people still eat cookies and bacon instead. He's not gonna hold up fast food and say it's a good diet though, even if he eats it, he knows the score! He built his engine on carbs.
Find the video of Usain Bolts Dad talking about "my son's secret weapon is bananas and yams!"
"I could indulge any time I want," Bolt says. "But I try to go for long periods, maybe three months, without any fast food. The older you get, the better you have to eat." -Bolt
People want Bolt to get serious and break 19 in the 200m. He could be even more incredibly fast and reach his maximum potential if he sorted his lifestyle out.
Bolt eats fast food and boozes it up clubbing like a teenager but he still knows eating fruit is the best way to be healthy. Lucky for him his sport is sprinting and he's incredibly gifted. You don't need to be 'that' healthy to run 100 meters you just have to be gifted with genetics/biomechanics and strong.
Bolt always jokes that he is lazy and works way less than Blake. That's why Blake is munching down the bananas and working his butt off to try and beat Bolt because it's the only way he's going to do it, with Bolts talent. I think Blake could beat bolt if he practised hygiene and worked hard enough.