Dieta vegetariana e sua relação na performance de atletas

Abstract

For many years, the vegetarian diet was seen as insufficient and incomplete, because it excluded animal proteins from the menu. At the same time, there were already followers, including high performance athletes, who adopted the ideology, with the advent and strengthening of the media and scientific works, who came to prove that it is possible to stay healthy, hypertrophy, lose weight or gain weight following the diet vegetarian. We carry out a basic, descriptive and bibliographic research by gathering existing and published information and data. The work aims to verify the relationship between vegetarian diet and performance in athletes, being the deductive method, being a basic, descriptive, bibliographical and analytical research, being categorized in review. The result was that, if the athlete enjoys an adequate and harmonious vegetarian diet, he can have the same performance results as non-vegetarian athletes. From this article, it is concluded that vegetarian diets are safe and effective for athletes when performed along with nutritional guidance. The present work proposes a new nutritional perspective, exposing in a functional and didactic way the vegetarian diet in athletics.