Nicholas Burd stands in front of a weight rack (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Nicholas Burd stands in front of a weight rack

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A clinical trial led by health and kinesiology professor Nicholas Burd tested a vegan diet against an omnivorous diet and found no difference in the rate of muscle-protein synthesis after weight training.

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