Plant-Based Athlete: What Happened When I Stopped Eating Two Pounds of Meat Per Day

Growing up in Singapore, I was one of the “fat” kids in class. My classmates called me a “double scoop ice cream with a cherry on top.” (The cherry was my head.) I was also plagued with chronic asthma, epilepsy, and kidney disease, and the medications I took for these ailments left me borderline obese.

by Luke Tan

I was always a big meat eater. When I went to my grandmother’s house for Sunday lunch, my aunt would prepare an individual serving of 8 to 10 fried chicken wings for me. On weekends, I would ask my parents to take me to the American diner, where I’d order a ribeye steak or baby back ribs. I loved Western food.


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