The NURMI-Study (https://www.nurmi-study.com/en), the largest study on running in Europe, was designed as a follow-up to bikeeXtreme (mountain-bike study over 8 consecutive stages). It The NURMI St
udy was set up as an interdisciplinary (nutrition, medicine and sports science) and international (researchers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland) comparative study of running in order to create a broad basis for well-founded evidence of the link between endurance and diet (omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan).
Although the number of vegetarians and vegans worldwide is increasing, it is difficult to find a group of vegetarian and vegan athletes taking part in the same competition to provide a sufficiently large sample for a study.
The aim of this comparative study of running is to investigate ...
STEP 1 - Prevalence of vegetarian, vegan and omnivorous endurance runners at the start of events
STEP 2- Quality of Life, Health Status, Food Frequency etc. of vegetarvegetarian, vegan and omnivorous endurance runners
STEP 3 - determine running performance of vegetarian, vegan and omnivorous endurance runners ... [more]