Vegetarian Star

Retired professional hockey player Georges Laraque didn’t just watch the videos or read the reports on how a vegan diet may ease a variety of medical problems. He put himself to the test.

Laraque had hospital specialists conduct a variety of “before” and “after” tests and he compared the results of his six month eating experiment.

In an interview with the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee student newspaper, The UWM Post, Laraque explained:

“I wanted to carefully document my body’s response to the vegan diet, so what I did was I went to a cardiology hospital and had them do a full range of tests on me: physical tests, cardiovascular tests, blood tests, and they monitored my blood pressure. I went vegan right away, and then six months later I did the same tests again to get a “before and after” report – I wanted to know how my body reacted. My high blood pressure was gone, asthma was gone – they actually did a documentary about it. I didn’t want to just tell people, I wanted to show it with facts and prove to them that even as a professional athlete, going vegan was the best thing I’d ever done. You become a bigger, stronger, better athlete once you eat better.”

Laraque verified what several studies have suggested. People following vegetarian or vegan diets may have lower blood pressure readings than meat-eating patients. Another study involving 27,766 Seventh-day Adventists vegetarian women found they had lower incidence of asthma compared to non-vegetarian women. Vegan diets are thought to protect against certain asthmatic triggers, such as dairy and eggs.

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