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The NFL’s David Carter On How A Plant-Based Diet Made Him A Better Player & A Better Human
It’s one thing to thrive on a plant-based diet as a skinny endurance athlete. But what about sports that place a premium on size, speed, agility, power, quickness and just plain brute force?
Is it possible to compete at the highest level of the NFL not as a punt returner, not as a quarterback or even a running back, but as a defensive lineman – a position where only the absolute biggest, baddest, strongest and fastest survive?
Meet David Carter — aka The 300 Pound Vegan.
Introduced to the game at age 5, David began his football career playing Pop Warner. He made waves at Fontana's Kaiser High…
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