Eating practices of the best endurance athletes in the world

active.com — Contrary to what the Atkins Diet advocates, the world's top endurance athletes eat limited amounts of meat and eat a carbohydrate-heavy diet and only have ~6-10% body fat; Kenyan runners obtain 86% of daily calories from vegetable sources and 76.5% percent of daily calories from carbs; two thirds of their protein also comes from vegetable sources. Jul 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4