NetsDaily · Dec 14, 2017
Jahlil Okafor stumps for vegan diet
If Jahlil Okafor looks more svelte, moves more quickly when he finally steps on the court for the Nets, blame it on the vegetables.
As Okafor discussed a few days ago, he adopted a vegan diet while recovering from a knee injury suffered late last season in Philadelphia with the Sixers.
“I took a vegan diet. I’m on a vegan diet now. I started that this past summer,” he told a media scrum Monday. “The reason I did it is just health benefits. My knee was swelling up a lot and I couldn’t really get my knee to 100 percent, so I tried cutting out dairy and the swelling went down and I went full-fledged on it and I feel great.