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MartyMurray
(B) While avoiding experiencing the health issues attributable to consuming meat and animal products, a vegan diet allows athletes to excel in sports from bodybuilding to sprinting.
(C) In sports from bodybuilding to sprinting, vegan athletes excel while avoiding experiencing the health issues attributable to consuming meat and animal products.
B and C both look okay to me. What is wrong with B?
B certainly sounds ok. Also, B is grammatically correct. At the same time there is a meaning issue.
B begins with "While avoiding experiencing the health issues attributable to consuming meat and animal products".
Something that follows that opening modifier has to "avoid experiencing ... health issues".
What follows the opening modifier and seems to be the target of the modifier is "a vegan diet".
So we have, basically, "While avoiding experiencing health issues, a vegan diet allows ..."
That a vegan diet would experience health issues or avoid experiencing health issues does not make sense.
Yes, "athletes", which could logically be modified by "While avoiding experiencing the health issues ..." does appear in the sentence. However, the placement of the opening modifier associates it with "a vegan diet". Hence the term, "misplaced modifier."