Carl Lewis Research Paper

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Carl Lewis is an American track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, he became vegan in 1990. He proved to the world that a vegan athlete can success, he said “I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.” Many people think that meat, chicken and in general animal products are the only sources of protein, but Carl Lewis showed that this is a wrong perception. His vegan diet is full of lentils, beans and juice which consider as good sources of protein.

Through conducting a small research in order to find what kind of nutrition is not there in vegan diet, we discover that vegan diet is lack of vitamin

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