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美國著名田徑運動員卡爾·劉易斯談素食(英文)
美國著名田徑運動員卡爾·劉易斯（Carl Lewis）曾獲得9枚奧運會金牌，是一位嚴格素食者。他在談到吃素的體會時說：“實際上，在田徑賽中，我最好的參賽成績是在吃素後的第一年”。
劉易斯： 當我成為素食者的時候，我有很多隊員也和我一樣，我說：“讓我們就這麽做吧，我們一起成為素食者。”許多人這樣做了，有些人出現反複，但是沒有一個人完全回到從前的狀況，每個人都從中獲益了。有趣的是，作為一個演員，我發現人們的飲食總的來說比運動員的更加科學，這讓人覺得不可思議，因為很多人認為運動員的飲食應該是最好的，但事實上絕大部分運動員的飲食是全世界最糟糕的，而他們竟然還要在這種狀況下去競賽。現在開始出現一些健康食品店，這並非某些人的獨出心裁。如果你想選擇更健康的食品，或者不希望象其他人那樣去大眾化的食品店買一磅肉回家，健康食品店自然成為再正常不過的一種潮流。我就很喜歡那些店，並且基本上隻去健康食品店購物，在那裏我能買到自己需要的絕大多數東西。對我來說更容易一些，因為我一直在贏得比賽，而且在年齡偏大的情況下依然獲得金牌，因此當我勸我的隊友們同樣這麽做的時候，他們很願意聽從。說實話，他們絕大部分人確實從中受益了，而且把素食的習慣堅持了下來。
問：是什麽讓您開始素食？因為素食畢竟不是美國人的典型飲食。
劉易斯：是的，素食也不是運動員的典型飲食。就我個人而言，很有意思，最早我和一個作家合作寫一本書，他過來和我一塊兒生活十天，我們一起討論那本書的事情。每天我們都一起去訓練，他在一邊觀察，但有時會離開訓練場然後再回來，連續三四天都是這樣，我就問他去哪裏了，他說： “我得去吃東西呀，我看你從來都不吃東西。”我開始意識到我是靠饑餓在控製體重，而不是選擇健康的飲食習慣。剛巧我正想做一些關於最佳飲食的調查，這樣我這個喜歡美食的人就不用總是餓自己了。什麽樣的飲食能夠既健康又符合運動的要求？調查結果顯示要大量減少肉食，增加果汁的攝入，同時選擇恰當的奶產品，這就是我開始素食的原因。一段時間下來，結果我變成了一個嚴格的素食者（Vegan），並且長期堅持下來了。我跟每個人都說：“我最好的參賽成績是在我30 歲那一年成為嚴格素食者之後獲得的”。他們問我從哪裏獲得蛋白，我吃大量的小扁豆，我酷愛豆類、果汁，我從多種素食中同樣可以獲得需要的營養，而不必象其他人那樣依賴肉食。
（中間介紹素食烹飪，略）
劉易斯： 當我飲用新鮮果汁，吃素漢堡或者含豆腐的沙拉的時候，我感覺更爽、更有活力，因為我能感覺到自己的消化係統更清潔、循環更暢通，而且，我覺得自己變輕了。
翻譯整理：May，Jesse
Vegan的定義：Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind. (from wiki)
http://earthsave.org/lifestyle/carllewis.htm
Carl Lewis on Being Vegan
Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian,
by Jannequin Bennett
Can a world-class athlete get enough protein from a vegetarian diet to compete? 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. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (I know that sounds vain, but all of us want to like the way we look.) I enjoy eating more, and I feel great. Here’s my story.
When I grew up in New Jersey, I always enjoyed eating vegetables and was influenced by my mother, who believed in the importance of a healthy diet even though we ate meat regularly because my father wanted it. At the University of Houston I ate meat and tried to control my weight the wrong way–by skipping meals. Frequently I would skip breakfast, eat a light lunch, and then have my fill at dinner–just before I went to bed. Not only is skipping meals the wrong way to diet, but the way I did it is the worst way because your body needs four hours to digest its food before you go to sleep.
In May of 1990 I decided to change the way I ate when I realized that controlling my weight by skipping meals was not good for me. Within the space of a few weeks, I met two men who changed my way of thinking and eating. The first was Jay Cordich, the Juice Man, whom I met at the Houston radio station where I worked in the early morning. He was there to talk about his juicer, which makes fresh juice from fruits and vegetables. He said that drinking at least sixteen ounces of freshly squeezed juice each day will increase a person’s energy, strengthen the immune system, and reduce the risk of disease. A few weeks later while doing publicity for a meet in Minneapolis, I met Dr. John McDougall, a medical doctor who teaches about the link between good nutrition and good health and was promoting his latest book. Dr. McDougall challenged me to make a commitment to eating a vegetarian diet and then to just do it.
I remember vividly making the decision in July of 1990 to become a vegan. I was competing in Europe and ate a meal of Spanish sausage on a Saturday and on the following Monday started eating vegan. The hardest thing for me was changing my eating habits from skipping meals to eating throughout the day–which is much healthier. I also missed salt and so substituted lemon juice for flavor.
In the spring of 1991 – eight months after beginning to eat vegan – I was feeling listless and thought I might need to add protein from meat to my diet. Dr. McDougall, however, explained that my listlessness was due to my needing more calories because I was training so many hours each day, not because I needed more animal-based protein. When I increased my calorie intake, I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever!
You have total control over what you put in your body. No one can force you to eat what you don’t want to eat. I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring. As she says, “vegan eating is a truly indulgent way of life, as vegans regularly partake of the very best foods that nature has to offer.” Here are recipes that will excite your taste buds. By the way, a few of my own recipes are included.
Keep in mind that eating vegan does require a commitment to being good to your body and to acting responsibly toward the world around you. Most of us are not aware of how much damage we do to our bodies and to our world by the way we eat. I challenge you to write down everything you eat and drink for one week. You will probably be amazed at the amount of snacks you eat, the different ways in which milk and cheese are a part of your diet, and–worst of all–how much fast food you consume.
Most snacks such as cookies, chips, candy, French fries, or soft drinks are highly processed foods that have lost many of their useful nutrients. Worse still, most of these foods are loaded with fat, salt, and chemicals. For instance, a 1.5-ounce bag of barbecue potato chips has the same number of calories as a medium baked potato, but 70 times the amount of fat and 20 times the amount of salt.
Cheese and other dairy products are loaded with artery-clogging saturated fat and cholesterol. Most cheeses get 70 to 80 percent of their calories from fat.
You have to be especially careful when you eat in fast food restaurants. As the consumption of unhealthy fast food has increased, so has obesity, which is now second only to smoking as a cause of death in the U.S. Eric Schlosser reported in Fast Food Nation that the rate of obesity among American children is twice as high today as it was twenty-five years ago. Moreover, it seems that wherever people eat unhealthy fast food, waistlines start to expand. Between 1984 and 1993, for instance, the number of fast food restaurants in Great Britain roughly doubled. And so did the obesity rate among adults. Overweight people were once a rarity in Japan. Fast food restaurants arrived there thirty years ago, and today one-third of all Japanese men in their thirties are overweight.
Your body is your temple. If you nourish it properly, it will be good to you and you will increase its longevity.
美國著名田徑運動員卡爾·劉易斯談素食(英文)
美國著名田徑運動員卡爾·劉易斯（Carl Lewis）曾獲得9枚奧運會金牌，是一位嚴格素食者。他在談到吃素的體會時說：“實際上，在田徑賽中，我最好的參賽成績是在吃素後的第一年”。
劉易斯： 當我成為素食者的時候，我有很多隊員也和我一樣，我說：“讓我們就這麽做吧，我們一起成為素食者。”許多人這樣做了，有些人出現反複，但是沒有一個人完全回到從前的狀況，每個人都從中獲益了。有趣的是，作為一個演員，我發現人們的飲食總的來說比運動員的更加科學，這讓人覺得不可思議，因為很多人認為運動員的飲食應該是最好的，但事實上絕大部分運動員的飲食是全世界最糟糕的，而他們竟然還要在這種狀況下去競賽。現在開始出現一些健康食品店，這並非某些人的獨出心裁。如果你想選擇更健康的食品，或者不希望象其他人那樣去大眾化的食品店買一磅肉回家，健康食品店自然成為再正常不過的一種潮流。我就很喜歡那些店，並且基本上隻去健康食品店購物，在那裏我能買到自己需要的絕大多數東西。對我來說更容易一些，因為我一直在贏得比賽，而且在年齡偏大的情況下依然獲得金牌，因此當我勸我的隊友們同樣這麽做的時候，他們很願意聽從。說實話，他們絕大部分人確實從中受益了，而且把素食的習慣堅持了下來。
問：是什麽讓您開始素食？因為素食畢竟不是美國人的典型飲食。
劉易斯：是的，素食也不是運動員的典型飲食。就我個人而言，很有意思，最早我和一個作家合作寫一本書，他過來和我一塊兒生活十天，我們一起討論那本書的事情。每天我們都一起去訓練，他在一邊觀察，但有時會離開訓練場然後再回來，連續三四天都是這樣，我就問他去哪裏了，他說： “我得去吃東西呀，我看你從來都不吃東西。”我開始意識到我是靠饑餓在控製體重，而不是選擇健康的飲食習慣。剛巧我正想做一些關於最佳飲食的調查，這樣我這個喜歡美食的人就不用總是餓自己了。什麽樣的飲食能夠既健康又符合運動的要求？調查結果顯示要大量減少肉食，增加果汁的攝入，同時選擇恰當的奶產品，這就是我開始素食的原因。一段時間下來，結果我變成了一個嚴格的素食者（Vegan），並且長期堅持下來了。我跟每個人都說：“我最好的參賽成績是在我30 歲那一年成為嚴格素食者之後獲得的”。他們問我從哪裏獲得蛋白，我吃大量的小扁豆，我酷愛豆類、果汁，我從多種素食中同樣可以獲得需要的營養，而不必象其他人那樣依賴肉食。
（中間介紹素食烹飪，略）
劉易斯： 當我飲用新鮮果汁，吃素漢堡或者含豆腐的沙拉的時候，我感覺更爽、更有活力，因為我能感覺到自己的消化係統更清潔、循環更暢通，而且，我覺得自己變輕了。
翻譯整理：May，Jesse
Vegan的定義：Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind. (from wiki)
http://earthsave.org/lifestyle/carllewis.htm
Carl Lewis on Being Vegan
Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian,
by Jannequin Bennett
Can a world-class athlete get enough protein from a vegetarian diet to compete? 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. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (I know that sounds vain, but all of us want to like the way we look.) I enjoy eating more, and I feel great. Here’s my story.
When I grew up in New Jersey, I always enjoyed eating vegetables and was influenced by my mother, who believed in the importance of a healthy diet even though we ate meat regularly because my father wanted it. At the University of Houston I ate meat and tried to control my weight the wrong way–by skipping meals. Frequently I would skip breakfast, eat a light lunch, and then have my fill at dinner–just before I went to bed. Not only is skipping meals the wrong way to diet, but the way I did it is the worst way because your body needs four hours to digest its food before you go to sleep.
In May of 1990 I decided to change the way I ate when I realized that controlling my weight by skipping meals was not good for me. Within the space of a few weeks, I met two men who changed my way of thinking and eating. The first was Jay Cordich, the Juice Man, whom I met at the Houston radio station where I worked in the early morning. He was there to talk about his juicer, which makes fresh juice from fruits and vegetables. He said that drinking at least sixteen ounces of freshly squeezed juice each day will increase a person’s energy, strengthen the immune system, and reduce the risk of disease. A few weeks later while doing publicity for a meet in Minneapolis, I met Dr. John McDougall, a medical doctor who teaches about the link between good nutrition and good health and was promoting his latest book. Dr. McDougall challenged me to make a commitment to eating a vegetarian diet and then to just do it.
I remember vividly making the decision in July of 1990 to become a vegan. I was competing in Europe and ate a meal of Spanish sausage on a Saturday and on the following Monday started eating vegan. The hardest thing for me was changing my eating habits from skipping meals to eating throughout the day–which is much healthier. I also missed salt and so substituted lemon juice for flavor.
In the spring of 1991 – eight months after beginning to eat vegan – I was feeling listless and thought I might need to add protein from meat to my diet. Dr. McDougall, however, explained that my listlessness was due to my needing more calories because I was training so many hours each day, not because I needed more animal-based protein. When I increased my calorie intake, I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever!
You have total control over what you put in your body. No one can force you to eat what you don’t want to eat. I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring. As she says, “vegan eating is a truly indulgent way of life, as vegans regularly partake of the very best foods that nature has to offer.” Here are recipes that will excite your taste buds. By the way, a few of my own recipes are included.
Keep in mind that eating vegan does require a commitment to being good to your body and to acting responsibly toward the world around you. Most of us are not aware of how much damage we do to our bodies and to our world by the way we eat. I challenge you to write down everything you eat and drink for one week. You will probably be amazed at the amount of snacks you eat, the different ways in which milk and cheese are a part of your diet, and–worst of all–how much fast food you consume.
Most snacks such as cookies, chips, candy, French fries, or soft drinks are highly processed foods that have lost many of their useful nutrients. Worse still, most of these foods are loaded with fat, salt, and chemicals. For instance, a 1.5-ounce bag of barbecue potato chips has the same number of calories as a medium baked potato, but 70 times the amount of fat and 20 times the amount of salt.
Cheese and other dairy products are loaded with artery-clogging saturated fat and cholesterol. Most cheeses get 70 to 80 percent of their calories from fat.
You have to be especially careful when you eat in fast food restaurants. As the consumption of unhealthy fast food has increased, so has obesity, which is now second only to smoking as a cause of death in the U.S. Eric Schlosser reported in Fast Food Nation that the rate of obesity among American children is twice as high today as it was twenty-five years ago. Moreover, it seems that wherever people eat unhealthy fast food, waistlines start to expand. Between 1984 and 1993, for instance, the number of fast food restaurants in Great Britain roughly doubled. And so did the obesity rate among adults. Overweight people were once a rarity in Japan. Fast food restaurants arrived there thirty years ago, and today one-third of all Japanese men in their thirties are overweight.
Your body is your temple. If you nourish it properly, it will be good to you and you will increase its longevity.
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