Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.

Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.

Without an adequate supply of micronutrients, not only are we less likely to sleep deeply, recover briskly from exercise, ward off sickness, and fully exploit our brainpower, we get hungry. And we stay hungry.

In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.

Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.

It's not volume, nor is it calories that we biologically hunger for. It's micronutrients. And until we receive enough, the hunger signal will continually urge us to eat. Thankfully, there's a simple fix: nutrient-dense food.

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.