He Ran 6 1/2 Marathons In One Day, And He Eats A 100% Plant-Based Diet

thank you so much for being here at nowhere that they very end of this amazing event and I’m glad that you stayed offense it’s a it’s a long day for some of you I know it’s been a pretty good day for me I’ve had to to our interviews before this so lots of I think we will get lots of distance from all of this and I’m really honored to be here I’m very grateful to Steve who has amazing energy and the amount of work to do something like this I’m just in awe that so very grateful to be here and very privileged to meet so many like-minded beautiful human beings so thank you for that so today we’re doing a lecture called our meat fish and milk nutritional necessities and science very clearly says no the evidence is pretty strong and pun totally intended every

The Evidence is Strong

single one of the guys pictured on here has built these muscles with a hundred percent plant-based diets and I want to just run through a few other people who I think add to the evidence this is Scott uric have you heard of Scott uric so Scott is an ultra marathon world champion he set the Appalachian Trail record running nearly 80 kilometers which is 50 miles a day for over 46 days it’s shocking he actually set the u.s. record for the 24-hour run six and a half marathons in one day 24 hours amazing he’s been a hundred percent plant-based since 1999 this is Julia Hubbard she’s a world champion

Julia Hubbard

bodybuilder holder of three world titles three Olympia titles two universe titles she’s a British British masters 60 and 200-meter sprint champion she’s been a hundred percent plant-based since 2015 and vegetarian since 1990 this is Patrick Bob omean this is a world champion he’s pretty

Patrik Baboumian

cool he’s a world champion strongman he actually I read the other day that he holds the record for lifting the most weight of any human being he’s really strong he’s considered Germany Strongest Man and Patrick Bob omean has been a hundred percent plant-based since 2011 this is Tia Blanco she is a world champion surfer 2015 and 16 world

Tia Blanco

champion title holder and she’s been a hundred percent plant base since 2013 and vegetarian from birth this is David Carter NFL football defensive lineman

David Carter

he’s six foot six and 300 pounds he’s called the 300-pound vegan and he is just the sweetest guy he looks top here he’s not really that tough he’s just really sweet and this man has been a hundred percent plant-based since 2014 and I don’t think I need to say too much

Venus and Serena Williams

about Venus and Serena Williams but you all know who they are they’ve been a hundred percent plant-based since 2012

Mac Danzing

this is Matt dancing he’s a mixed martial artist championing he’s I think five or six times a winner of the Ultimate Fighter and this guy’s been a hundred percent plant-based since 2004 and this is Sonya Looney she’s a world

Sonya Looney

champion mountain biker four times a u.s. national champion first woman to finished a tenday race across the annapurna and Nepal through the mountains and I can tell you it was grueling and I I hold up Sonya Looney she is passionate vegan and she’s actually one of my closest friends she lives as she’s from Arizona but lives in Kelowna and is just a awesome athlete and Sonia has been a hundred percent plant-based since 2014 and I can tell you that she told me she was really nervous about going plant-based because she was scared it would have a negative impact on her performance and she said she was in the top 20 in the world when she became plant-based within six months she was number one and this is dr.

Dr. Ellsworth Wareham

Ellsworth Wareham and he’s not an athlete and I’m very sad to tell you for those of you that don’t know I just heard he passed away a couple of weeks ago but I want to honor him he is just an amazing man he is a blue zone centenarian he was a cardiothoracic surgeon till he was 95 years old practicing teaching young doctors and he retired because as he said he told his family he would spend more time with them and even this picture on the right is him at his hundredth birthday party giving a speech and right up till he was a hundred and two he was doing interviews on a regular basis and articulate totally with it and he it’s a great loss but this man has been a hundred percent plant-based since 1965 and he has been vegetarian from birth so for the first 50 years of his life he was vegetarian for the second 54 he was vegan so yes an amazing example for all of us so I and he was a Blue Zones centenarian and for those of you that have been in my other lectures we talked

What is a Blue Zone?

about the Blue Zones but for those of you that weren’t I just want to quickly remind you about the Blue Zone so blue zones are places in the world where people live sort of the longest healthiest lives and what really separates the blue zones from other areas is that in the blue zones even when people get to be ninety or a hundred are still pretty productive they’re working in their gardens remember the story that Dan nurse told when he was going to Okinawa to interview a hundred year old man he said he arrived the home and he sees this man walk out that the hundreds girl man was living with his 70 year old son he said he sees this man walk out with shorts and a t-shirt and a big shovel slung over his shoulder and he was walking quite briskly out to the garden so he assumed of course this was the 70 year old man and he went up to him and he said I’m looking for your father and you know what I’m gonna say he said my father that was the hundred year old man so it’s it’s really quite quite something what what people in the Blue Zones can do in the walking up the

The 5 Blue Zones

mountains and at these advanced ages Dan was saying he had a hard time keeping up with some of them on their little tracks so there are five blue zones that we know of that’s Okinawa Japan Sardinia Italy Loma Linda California the seventh-day Adventist community there like dr. Ellsworth Wareham a Korea Greece and the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica and you

Lifestyle Practices Common to ALL Blue Zones

know the one thing that’s always interesting is to look at in the blue zones what are the sort of common golden threads that we can weave through every single blue zone and and they are that they all have a strong families they they value family they tend not to smoke there very strongly socially engaged they do constant moderate physical activity and where diet is concerned two common features they all consume legumes as a dietary people and they all consume plant-based diets and this man is an Okinawan centenarian and just look at his face he is don’t don’t you just love him like I just love this man I wish I could just give him a big hug look at his muscles look at the the strength at a hundred years of age it’s amazing this is this is what I want to be 100 for that strong and vibrant and to me if some of the fastest strongest longest lived people on the planet managed without animal products it’s likely safe and adequate for the rest of us so you know it’s so interesting when I was in university in the late 70s we learned two things about plant-based diets we learned that vegetarian diets were risky should never be used for children or pregnant women and we learned vegan diets were downright dangerous and should be used by nobody and that was all we learned about plant-based diets honestly and I can remember becoming vegan or pretty much vegan in 1990 and being scared that I would be Elstad from my profession because two of the four food groups were animal products and I thought how can I be vegan and and and be a dietician and and that was scary for me I’d never met I’d only met one vegetarian in my whole life it was my grade eight science teacher and he taught in the same school as my dad and my dad thought I remember my dad saying it’s one thing that he does that to himself but to do that to his children can you imagine and so that’s that was the that was the thinking in those days and and I can remember as a teenager being so intrigued by this whole vegetarian thing even though he had been the only vegetarian I’d ever Matt I just loved the idea of not killing animals to eat and and so it was a you know being a dietitian and starting to think this way I really was worried about this but I can tell you I made a decision I can remember this like it was yesterday I remember thinking to myself you’re seeing the bigger picture you’re seeing the picture of the animals the environment human health even we were making that connection for protecting against chronic diseases and I thought to myself if you don’t have the courage to stand up for what you believe who will the change has to happen and I like to be liked by people and I was scared that I would be looked at as one of those fringy people who was just off the rocker and a not a credible dietician so I remember saying to myself every eye will be dotted and every T will be crossed you know I’m gonna make sure that I know what I’m talking about and so I I spent a lot of time researching and and I do feel like I did make a difference from within the profession and I saw the changes and I remember you know pushing the Canadian government to allow for the fortification of non-dairy milks and these kinds of things and I can remember the first book I wrote back in 1992 the dairy industry it was called becoming vegetarian and when they realized there was a chapter called without dairy they were very upset because I think we were the first dieticians to say you could survive without dairy and and they were not happy they wrote a 45 page rebuttal to the book they took a full-page ad out against us in our professional journal it was quite a battle and and so there were a lot of things like that that happened but over the years we went from saying that no you this is too risky vegan diets are downright dangerous to saying that well-planned vegetarian including vegan diets are healthful nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases these diets are appropriate for all stages of the lifecycle including pregnancy lactation infancy childhood adolescence older adulthood and for athletes this is the official position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and and I’m so proud of the Academy for having this kind of position and the lead author on this paper is my writing partner vesanto melina and when Vasant ia nominated vesanto for the highest award offered by dietitians of Canada and she received that award two years ago and the person that allowed the ad in our professional journal came up to her after her talk and said I’m sorry we ever allowed that ad in our professional journal it was wrong and I apologized and so you can imagine coming from where we we were 30 years ago to reaching this point where this type of diet is has been now not only given the stamp of approval but actually you know these diets can provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of diseases this is in the position it’s really quite quite a wonderful thing to see how far we’ve come in 30 years