Plant-Based Sports Nutrition

“Five decades ago, when I won the Boston Marathon as a vegetarian runner, few knew or cared about my diet. Since then, I’ve encountered increasing interest year after year. At every runner’s clinic, someone asks me: ‘What do you think of a vegetarian diet, and how can I learn more?’ The answer is simple: Vegetarian and plant-based diets are great for your health as well as the health of the planet. And to learn everything you need to know, just read Plant-Based Sports Nutrition. Enette Larson-Meyer and Matt Ruscigno are as informed on the subject as they are passionate and experienced. There’s no better source than this book.” –Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon Winner and Author of Run Forever: Your Complete Guide to Healthy Lifetime Running and Other Books

“Whether you’re an elite athlete or newbie exerciser, Plant-Based Sports Nutrition dispels the myths of plant-based nutrition while providing the knowledge to optimize your athletic performance. Plants are the athletic fuel of the future!” –Scott Jurek, Vegan Ultramarathon Legend and Author of North and the New York Times-Bestselling Eat and Run

Enette Larson-Meyer is a professor at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Vegetarian Sports Nutrition (Human Kinetics, 2007) and has also authored over 80 scientific journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sports Nutrition Consensus Panel and on the IOC Consensus Panel for Supplementation in the Elite Athlete. Matt Ruscigno is a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and has followed a vegan diet for more than 20 years. Ruscigno has co-authored many books included No Meat Athlete, Appetite for Reduction and Cacao, Superfoods for Life. He is the past chair of the vegetarian nutrition (VN) practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Recreationally, he has raced ultramarathongs, Ironman races and 24 hour mountain bike races.