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If you've become mesmerized by all of theveggie-focused recipes floating around Instagram recently, welcome to the club. Veg culture is becoming more and more mainstream, and while this could possibly be just a passing trend as a direct result of the rising popularity of plant-based bloggers and gone-viral documentaries, there are so many health benefits to swapping animal meat for whole foods. If you've been mulling over how to become a vegetarian after eating like a born and bred carnivore for the past 20 or so years, it's easier than it looks.

The first step to making the transition from meat to plant-eater is to understand why this could be the right decision for your body's well-being. Sakara Life founders Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle told Elite Daily,

The plant based diet is arguably the best diet for optimal wellness. Vegetables pack more nutrients per bite than most foods and help the body combat inflammation, eliminate yeast, get rid of belly fat, balance your pH, quiet your irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), cut your risk of colon cancer in half, boost your energy, lose weight, banish your bloat, and glow from the inside out.

Aside from feeling the effects of high energy, a plant-based diet has been scientifically proven to be connected to lower risk of cancer, heart disease and autoimmune disorders like colitis and arthritis, as well as fewer fertility problems. Lastly, eating plants in their natural state puts you close to the source with minimal processing.

The next step is to commit. Now, not everyone can go veg cold-turkey (no pun intended), and that's OK! If you're struggling, theseare a fewtiny steps that can make a big difference in the long run.

I know this can bealmost impossible when you are literally deleting staple foods from your diet, but instead of focusing on what you're giving up, think of all you are about to gain.

One of the coolest things I've found through my transition from a carnivorous to a plant-based diet is that if you're struggling or find yourself craving animal meat, there are so many options.

There are meat substitutes like Tofurkey and veggie dogs, but you can also finagle legumes, beans, and tofu to taste like meat. Make a top 10list of food items you're not ready to let go of and take full advantage of the millions of veg recipes around blogs, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube to find a mock version.

For starters, let's address the elephant on the page here. You should not be swapping soy for meat at every meal, however, once or twice a week offers herbivores a significant source of protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals, according to Vandana Sheth, RDN, CDE, and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Spokesperson.

I was a junior in college the first time I tried tofu, and I did not enjoy it one bit. The batch I sampled was squishy, wet, and tasted like it had been seasoned with weeks-old marinade.It wasn't until almost five years later when my husband convinced me to give it a second chance. Bakingit with barbecue saucemade all the difference. It was delicious, and is now a favorite for football nights with a plate of baked french fries.

The key to tofu is experimentation. Gather up your favorite spices, read a few recipes, and I promise it can become a staple foryour meal plan.

I think it's a common misconception that vegetarians strictly chow down on fruits and vegetables alone, but we can have our fun and be healthy, too! The thing to remember is, this is not a diet, it's a lifestyle, and in order to keep up with it, you have to train yourself to a) try new things and b) find vegetables and fruits you want to eat, and implement them into meals outside a salad.

For example, instead of sausage and pepperoni as a pizza topping, try peppers, onions, mushrooms and broccoli, or even pineapple for a sweet treat. If you eat pasta on a weekly basis, swap traditional spaghetti with lentil noodles (Cybele's is a personal fave), or add spinach leaves to your sandwiches.

A lot of vegetarians are not only plant-based, but dairy-free, too. Instead of pouring a cup of cow's milk into your cereal bowl every morning, start swapping a serving or two per week with a non-dairy option like Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Vanilla Almond Cashew Milk, Lifeway Kefir, or rice milk instead.

Another branch of vegetarianism is pescatarianism, in which case you would give up all beef, pork, and poultry, but still eat fish. The upside tothis is that fish is easy to cook, contains less fat than animal meat, can stimulate your brain, and is an all-around excellent source of protein.

So rather than taking a turkey sandwich for lunch, try canned tuna or salmon. Cut out chicken stripsfor dinner and bake fillets in the oven with a zesty lemon marinade instead.

Another easy way for vegetarians to meet their protein requirements is to supplement animal products with powders in a smoothie or shake.

Personally, I love the Vital Proteins Marine Collagen powder as it blends in with the flavors of fruit and is easy to digest (they just launched a vegan line, as well), but if you're practicing a solely plant-based diet, Naturade's Vegan Smart Vanilla Shake powder is super flavorful, filling, and even helps repair muscles after a hard workout.

Prior to becoming vegetarian, I had a love affair with a cheeseburger and fries combo at least once a week. Upon switching to plant-based options, I felt lost in a world saturated byfast food. What the heck was I going to order now that beef and chicken were off the table?

Luckily we are living in the 21st century where, despite a traditional Western diet being the norm, plant-based options are plentiful. The easiest way to know what you can and can't eat out is bysimply doing the research.

Look up your favorite restaurants online and browse their menus to decipher which establishments are more or less veg-friendly. To give you a head start, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, and Italian cuisine all have a ton of delicious indulgences that are 100 percent vegetarian-friendly. (Here's looking at you, Chipotle.)

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Research has found a plant-based vegetarian diet is associated with lower cholesterol levels.

A study published in Nutritional Reviews found the reductions were greater compared to omnivorous diets.

Plant-based vegetarian diets contain no meat and are made of lots of vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and fruits.

An omnivorous diet, however, includes both plant and animal foods.

In the study, they found that a plant-based vegetarian diet is associated with total cholesterol that's 29.2 mg/dL lower.

Additionally, in clinical trials, a plant-based diet lowered total cholesterol by 12.5 mg/dL.

High cholesterol can cause stroke, heart attack and heart disease.

The researchers believe the link may due to the association of a plant-based diet with a lower body weight, a reduced intake of saturated fat, and an increased intake of plant foods which are naturally rich in components such as soluble fibre, soy protein, and plant sterols.

"The immediate health benefits of a plant-based diet, like weight loss, lower blood pressure, and improved cholesterol, are well documented in controlled studies," said study author Susan Levin.

Our goal with studying plasma lipids throughout the lifespan is to capture the net risk reduction of using a vegetarian diet to control lipid levels. We hope to empower patients with new research about the long-term cardiovascular health benefits of a vegetarian diet, which include a reduced risk of a heart attack, stroke, and premature death."

Cholesterol is a fatty substance known as a lipid, and is vital for the normal functioning of the body.

While high levels of "good" HDL cholesterol are beneficial, too much "bad" LDL cholesterol can lead to heart disease.

The study authors recommend doctors encourage people to transition to a plant-based diet.

Hyperlipidemia - or elevated cholesterol and triglycerides - is often underdiagnosed and undertreated.

However, it can lead to thousands of deaths.

Certain foods in particular can help lower cholesterol.

Research published in the journal Nutrition Reviews has found that consuming oats regularly can lead to a reduction of five to ten per cent.

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In case you need another reason to eat more veggies, a new study says they may be helpful in making men smell more attractive to women.

The study, performed by researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, found that men who ate a diet heavy in vegetables smelled nicer than those who ate a carb-heavy diet, NPR reports. Interestingly, those who ate more meat produced a stronger smell, though it wasn't thought of as better or worse.

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To understand how our diet impacts our smell, researchers recruited a group of young men and assessed their skin with a spectrophotometer. This device flashes a light onto someone's skin, then measures the color reflected back, which indicates how much fruit and veggies a person eats.

The men then filled out questionnaires about their diets, and were given a clean shirt to exercise in. After the men sweated it out, women were brought in to smell the shirts and share their opinions on each shirt's scent, including how floral, fruity, and attractive it smelled.

"Women basically found that men who ate more vegetables smelled nicer," Ian Stephen, the author of the study, told NPR.

According to the study, eating more fat, meat, egg, and tofu was also associated with a more pleasant smell. Sorry carbs, you're killing our game.

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The Paleo diet may well turn out to be the fad diet our decade is remembered fornever mind that it probably has very little to do with how our Stone Age ancestors actually ate.

Now someone has dressed up the diet and bottled itliterallyso that Paleo dieters everywhere can also feed the paleo diet to their offspring. A company named Serenity Kids plans to launch this month with a line of liquid baby food that has the highest meat content of any pouched baby food on the market. Offerings for little cave babies include liquified uncured bacon with organic kale and butternut squash, free-range chicken with peas and carrots and grass-fed beef with kale and sweet potato. A pack of six 4-ounce pouches goes for $27.

I just couldnt believe that nothing existed that would be something I would want to feed my own baby, proprietor Serenity Heegel, AKA Paleo Mom, explained to Food Navigator.

Now, there is something troubling about packaging a fad diet for babies.

Paleo dieters stick to foods that supposedly would have been available to Paleolithic humans the idea being that these foods are easier for our body to process. That means non-processed foods uncovered by foraging or killing animals for meatso no dairy and no grains. The diet has faced its fair share of criticism. For starters, there is pretty significant evidence suggesting its nothing like like the diet actual Paleolithic human sustained. And while some research has suggested it may have health benefits and help with weight loss, at this point that work is still inconclusive, giving people little to rely on besides anecdotal evidence.

None of that is to say that the diet is actually unhealthy. But some have suggested it might be when it comes to kids.

In 2015, when Australian publishers sought to release a Paleo diet book aimed at new moms, health experts stepped in with concerns. Doctors said that the recipes contained ten times more vitamin A than is considered safe for children. The recipes also lacked other important nutrients. The book was never released.

Experts have suggested that the diets restrictions on carbohydrates and extremely high levels of protein could hamper childhood development. Eating less sugar and processed foods sounds like a good idea, but it could mean kids arent kidding all the nutrients they need.

I do not advise parents to put their children on a Paleo diet, Angela Lemond, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and registered dietitian nutritionist wrote in Food and Nutrition.

You wouldnt feed your kid Soylent or SlimFast right? Bottom line: Fad diets are probably not a great idea for babies.

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This is the diet that has absolutely nothing to do with eating but thats proven to bewaymore effective in getting you healthy than any other regimen.

According to a study published inThe Lancet, sleep is crucial for metabolic function and hormone stability. Hormones and metabolism play a pivotal role in health, affecting everything fromdiabetes preventionto heart disease risk.

When participants sleep was restricted,they experienced an increase in stress hormonesand a decrease in the speed of their metabolism.

Another studyfound that a lack of sleep contributed to a sharp decrease in leptin the hormone responsible for regulating fat storage. They also witnessed an increase in ghrelin a hormone that increases appetite.

If youre not sleeping enough,youre obviously going to be tired. Your body is going to get stressed and start sending signals to your body to put on weight. The weight, from your bodys perspective, is there as a reservoir of energy. When you feel tired, its suspicious that it might need it.

You dont have tocut the carbs off your hamburger, start drinking wellness shots that taste more like grass than juice, orchoke down harsh sips of apple cider vinegarto foster a better relationship with your body.

All you have to do is simple: Sleep.

Not before you eat, not excessively, not five times a day, or whatever other wild ideas are ricocheting through your mind.

Just sleepenough. And sleep well.

Of course, this is easier said than done. Thats where the concept of the diet comes in. Diets are often seen as temporary a short-term set of rules to carry you through a healthy change or two that hopefully sticks after its over, when the clock strikes midnight andboomyou can eat pasta again.

With food,diets dont work. Theyre often extreme, restrictive, andleave you drooling desirously over a cupcakeyou never even blinked at before. That doesnt happen on a sleep diet. You dont crave consciousness when you start to get enough sleep. If youre somehow taking it to the extreme (i.e., getting toomuchsleep) youll just wake up. Its the equivalent of accidentally eating a doughnut if youve gone too far and prohibited dessert.

The sleep diet, if done effectively, works. Its just not easy. Heres how to do it:

1. Set a time frame for the diet. One week is a good place to start.

2. Set your own rules. How much sleep do you want to get each night? Figure out the bedtime you would need to follow to accomplish the desired number of hours. Write it down.

3. For the time frame of your diet,stick to your bedtime. Thats the only rule to which this diet adheres. Its easy to remember, but surprisingly difficult to do.

But before you say, No, I cant do that, think about it for a second. Is it any harder than a typical diet? With those, you often have to eliminate entire sectors of your life. Happy hour with your coworkers?No drinking. Birthday cake with the kids for their birthday? Not for you!

Why do we perceive sleep asmoreextreme than those other restrictions restrictions that arent even all that good for you?

Sleep, on the other hand, is great for you. With a few extra hours of rest under your belt,youre likely to gravitate naturally towards your healthiest weight andfeelmuch better, too.

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Professional footballers - like all elite athletes - need to pay as much attention to their diet as their training.

And whereas in the past, they might have come off pitch and scoffed a meal of steak and chips, theres now a much greater focus on nutrition and its effect on a players game.

Nutrition impacts everything from a players endurance levels and speed to their recovery to their sleep patterns, sports scientist Armando Vinci, who worked alongside the Chelsea manager Antonio Conte for almost a decade, told The Times.

Its crucial that footballers get the right nutrients in the right quantities at the right times to ensure they perform their best on the pitch.

And there are certain secrets to their diets that we can all take away, whether youre running up and down a field for 90 minutes or smashing a HIIT workout in the gym.

Consuming a sports drink every time you work out may negate all the hard work youve put in, as they're often high in calories and sugar.

You need to be exercising fairly hard for at least an hour to make them worthwhile, otherwise you are effectively giving yourself an unnecessary dose of sugar, John Brewer, professor of applied sport science at St Marys University, Twickenham, said.

Whilst footballers still have isotonic sports drinks on match days to provide a carbohydrate boost, theyve cut down how many they used to consume.

Its no secret that consuming protein is crucial for muscle recovery and supermarket shelves are brimming with snacks that claim to offer protein boosts on the go.

But theres a new post-workout snack appearing on the scene that footballers have been eating for a long time: beef jerky. Its predicted to become an alternative to protein bars, shakes and balls.

Beef jerky is a high-quality protein snack that provides your body with essential amino acids needed to build, maintain and repair muscle, says Nancy Rodriguez, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Connecticut.

Many people find foods that are part of the nightshade family - including peppers, tomatoes, aubergines andpotatoes - hard to digest.

And players are being asked to cut down on tomato sauces as a result: They contain compounds that block the absorption of calcium by the body and I always advise players to cut down on the amount of times they consume tomato-based pasta sauces, says Vinci.

Its not just footballers either - American football player Tom Brady famously doesnt eat nightshades as part of his strict diet.

Not just a supposed superfood, blueberries - along with cherries and pomegranate seeds - are anti-inflammatory and thus help with recovery - theyre a bigpart of many footballers diets.

Blueberries in particular are a great choice before a match as they boost the immune system: These antioxidants can neutralise the free radicals produced during metabolism and protect the body against the damaging effects of these free radicals, says sports and exercise physiology consultant, Dr Stewart Laing.

Blueberries are a source of carbs so help fuel players before exercising and they dont spike your insulin levels either.

Burning as many calories as they do, its no surprise that footballers need carbs. But they dont carb-load, as many people think, and the timing is crucial.

Recent scientific research has found that its essential to modify your carb intake based on whether youre working out or not.

Professional footballers need about 7g of carbohydrate per kilogram of body weight on match days to optimise glycogen resynthesis, but on recovery days this drops to 2g per kilogram of body weight.

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Not only is Greek yoghurt a great source of protein, probiotics and calcium, but it could also help your body recover while you sleep if you eat some half an hour before bed:

The protein in yoghurt and other milk products is almost entirely casein, which digests slowly in the body and is ideal for rebuilding muscle following any intense training session, but particularly a gym workout using weights, Vinci says.

Its a trick that could be helpful for anyone who does weight-training or resistance work.

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It started with loosely-defined "junk food." Then it was refined sugar. Next, alcohol was banished, followed by carbs. Before long, I had whittled my once-diverse diet down to a tiny number of foods. Any unexpected divergencea glass of champagne or bite of cake at a party, a failure to double-check the ingredients listed on the wrapper of a protein barwould send me spiraling into a total panic, followed by a compulsive workout-and-cleanse routine to rid my body of the intruders. My rigid adherence to diet and exercise had become an all-consuming obsession.

Yet, I (and my friends and family) considered my lifestyle to be healthy. I received constant praise for my discipline.

Whats trendier, after all, than an elimination diet or "eating clean?" It's easy to find ourselves seduced by alluring pseudo-scientific theories and the moralizing of our eating choices: bad food will harm you, good food will heal you.

For Americans, and especially for women, healthy eating has become practically synonymous with deprivation. Maybe that's why the red flagsdistressing and compulsive thoughts or behaviors, self-created rules around foodoften go unnoticed or even praised, despite the fact that restrictive diets can be precursors to clinical eating disorders, Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D, an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, tells SELF. In a culture that's already hyper-fixated on our bodies, we're also constantly reminded that there are ways to improve and "purify" it every time we see a celebrity hawking cleanses and detox teas on Instagram (spoiler: they're mostly laxatives).

Too much or too little of any one thing is generally problematic, and strict food rules in any form can set the stage for eating disorders, says Eddy. She emphasizes that when we are as inflexible around food as I had become, physical and mental health is greatly compromised. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), food inflexibility can lead to guilt or self-loathing if a "bad" food is consumed, as well as anxiety about food planning and isolation from social events with food and drinks. It can also cause nutritional deficiencies when entire food groups are removed from a person's diet.

This type of ultra-controlled healthy eating, known as orthorexia, can take many forms. According to NEDA, orthorexia signs and symptoms include compulsively checking nutrition labels, an inability to eat any food that isn't designated "pure," obsessively following "healthy lifestyle" bloggers or social media figures, and showing an "unusual interest" in what others are eating. Of course, you can check nutrition labels and follow fitness experts on Instagram without being orthorexic. It's the compulsivity and obsession (reading labels every time, even multiple times, that you eat something and feeling anxious if you don't, for example) that define orthorexia.

Orthorexia can often lead to anorexia, registered dietitian Christy Harrison, certified eating counselor and host of the popular podcast Food Psych, tells SELF. I've seen many clients who get so afraid of foods they see as processed and unclean that they end up eating hardly anything. Then, even if the orthorexia didn't have anything to do with weight at the beginning, they end up extremely fearful of, and resistant to, gaining weight.

By restricting my diet in an attempt to make it pure, all I ended up doing was imposing nutritional deficits on my body (a body which, by the way, is already full of organs meant to filter what I eat, and which is perfectly capable of digesting pretty much any kind of food I could throw at it).

I opted out of so many celebrations and social gatherings in fear of the food that Id be expected to eat or the cocktails Id be expected to drink. I missed out on friends birthdays and fun nights out, and on the rare occasions when I would show up, my obvious discomfort (and my transparent lies about having already eaten or just wanting water) made everyone else uncomfortable, too. Friends and dates gradually drifted away, preferring the company of someone who could share a beer after work or go for tacos and margaritas without obsessing over the "unhealthiness" of what I was eating or drinking. My family walked on eggshells around me, buying my separate, special groceries from the health food store when I was home and watching me agonize over our holiday meals. I lived in the prison that orthorexia had built around me, isolated in a life devoid of joy and connection with others.

Eventually, deprived of adequate nutrition and rest over the course of a year, my body and brain suffered. I experienced heart irregularities, dizziness and exhaustion, an inability to focus, and the loss of my period, all symptoms of anorexia, according to the Mayo Clinic. My best friend, deeply worried by all of these symptoms (and tired of watching me self-destruct in the pursuit of the perfect, "healthy" body) stepped in. With my approval, she made a consultation appointment for me at a local treatment center. The admitting counselor confirmed it: my orthorexia had morphed into anorexia nervosa. If I didnt learn how to find balance, my restrictive diet could end up killing me.

Eating disorders are rooted in compulsivity and obsession surrounding food, though they may present in different ways. According to NEDA, orthorexia is characterized by being consumed with "good vs. bad" or "healthy vs. unhealthy" food, while anorexia is characterized by obsessive caloric restriction and weight loss.

Thankfully, doctors and therapists who specialize in nutrition, such as those at the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center (CEDC) in Massachusetts, are growing more aware of orthorexias prevalence, risks, and why it so often goes ignored, untreated, or even rewarded. This is especially true in patients who do not lose a large amount of weight, who continue to function normally in their day-to-day lives, or whose symptoms may not yet be apparent.

Since individuals with orthorexia may maintain an outwardly healthy appearance, they may be reluctant to see (it) as a problem, Seda Ebrahimi, Ph.D., director of the CEDC, tells SELF. Still, she says, the consequences of such restrictive eating may lead to significant nutritional deficiencies and health problems.

Orthorexia is not yet recognized by the DSM-5 and thus, not medically diagnosable. However, practitioners skilled at recognizing eating disorders will know what orthorexia is and can connect patients with the appropriate therapists, nutritionists, and medical doctors.

"For anyone reading this who has had disturbing symptoms arise since they started 'eating clean,' like bingeing or emotional eating, constant thoughts about food, low energy, dry skin, abnormal blood work, or stress fractures, consider that overly restrictive eating," Harrison says. "Orthorexia may be at the root of these symptoms. Don't take them as a sign that you need to 'eat cleaner,' because that could just make the problems worse." She says that treatment will vary by individual and depend on how far the orthorexia has progressed (or if it overlaps with any other clinical disorders).

I didn't see my orthorexia for what it was until it had transformed into anorexiawhich is what I was officially treated for. But my therapist and nutritionist both helped me to deal with those orthorexic thought patterns and habits. They also helped me to reject elimination diets, which I am still doing in my recovery. Through talk therapy and learned coping mechanisms, I was able to walk back my rigid thinking around what I'm "allowed" to eat, eating and exercising on a certain schedule, and defining healthy as being thin, toned, and free of "bad" food in my body.

Eating mindfully is good for you, and changing your diet to focus on minimally processed foods is generally recommended across the board. But if you find yourself with an ever-shrinking list of permissible foods, if deviating from that list makes you feel anxious and guilty, if you control your food choices so strictly that it interferes with other plans and activities, and if your relationship with food takes up a large amount of space in your life, it might be time to ask what your devotion to that diet is costing you.

Socially, I've had to step away from friends who engage in orthorexic lifestyles or restrictive diets, both on social media and in real life. Many people don't understand that I had a real disorder; they just think I "took my diet and exercise too far." I've accepted this, and while I try to clarify widespread misconceptions about the bad science of detoxes, cleanses, and elimination diets, I try not to preach at my loved ones.

With weekly therapy appointments, weigh-ins, and nutrition appointments, along with a meal plan designed to help me regain weight and relearn unstructured eating, my treatment team helped me find my way back to a balanced lifewhich, for me, includes regular doses of ice cream, pizza, and pinot noir.

The social messaging around what healthy looks like and the aggressive promotion of virtuous eating still creep in and create the occasional urge to diet. They probably will for the rest of my life. But now I know first-hand that banning certain foods won't always solve your problemsfor some of us, it can cause them.

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A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

A view of Delaware Ave. on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Delmar, N.Y. This area of Delaware currently has four lanes for traffic. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

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There has been a recent trend in the NFL, and Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson is the latest to convert to a plant-based diet.

Apparently, popular Netflix documentaries What the Health and Fork Over Knives had some influence on Johnsons decision to adopt a plant-based diet.

Johnson quickly realized that his new diet was causing significant weight loss. He reported to camp at 223 pounds, which is lighter than he was in the past. But running back is a grueling position and with Johnson being a work-horse back, he needed to maintain his target weight, so he added some meat-based protein back into his diet.

But, after cutting most meat from his diet, he has noticed he has significant increase in energy.

Like Johnson, many other NFL players have joined the movement after watching the popular Netflix documentary, notably QB Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, and defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, to name a few.

We as Americans are conditioned to eat meat and programmed to think that meat is the only way to get quality protein. Now, by weeding out meat, how does Johnson get the necessary calories to sustain full NFL season?

According to ESPN staff write Josh Weinfuss, Johnson eats nuts between meals to help increase the necessary calories to maintain his weight.

Could this be a trend? If Johnson has another spectacular season on this new diet, could more and more NFL players adopt a plant-based diet? Will this be a fad that comes in goes or could we really see a change in the eating habits? Only time will tell.

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Bright red elderberries ripe for bears to harvest. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Cheung/United States Fish and Wildlife Service)

Climate change may be throwing off the Kodiak bears eating equilibrium.

On years with warmer spring temperatures, research says that elderberries ripen several weeks earlier than normal.

Oregon State Universitypostdoctoral researcher William Deacy just published findings from a multi-year study of bears on the southwest side of Kodiak Island.

The paper looks at how climate change affects the relationships between two species that have evolved to rely on one another.

Elderberries are the Kodiak bears favorite snack, Deacy said, even more than salmon.

The salmon is essentially the super Aktins diet for the bears, he said. Its just lean protein, almost no fat, and they end up gaining very little weight eating that, and the elderberries have a really perfect amount of protein for bears, and that allows them to gain weight really rapidly.

Bears normally feed on salmon,Deacy said, and then switch over to elderberries.

This new pattern means that the elderberries are available at the same time as salmon spawn in tributary streams.

Deacy said the bears sense that, and once they switch over from one food source to the next, they stick with the berries.

Its probably because theyre very, very good at detecting what foods are valuable to them, and they have instincts that tell them that these berries are the best food, and so they go and just eat those berries instead of having a mixed diet.

Deacy said the warming temperatures force bears to choose between salmon and elderberries.

Meanwhile, the salmon spawn out and die.

He says that leaves a gap where bears dont have access to either elderberries or salmon.

The bears usually stick to one area with its own resources and salmon run patterns,partly due to how much energy they expend while moving from point A to point B,

Bears dont appear to be suffering from these changes so far, Deacy said, and reproductive rates are about the same, if not better.

He said one possible effect of the timing change is that during early elderberry years, salmon may spawn more successfully.

Just cause the bears arent there and the salmon can kind of do their thing without being killed, so thats pretty intuitive, but we dont know whether that would show up four, five, six years later as increase in returning salmon because theres just so many other things that could happen to salmon in their life cycle before they come back.

This study is one example of how climate change can scramble the timing of two closely tied species and disrupt a food web, he said.

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