Struggling to find the motivation to stick to your “eat healthier” resolution? Rest assured you’re not alone!
Many people fail to stick with their New Year’s resolutions past 19 January, a date aptly known as ‘Quitter’s Day’.
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Plant-based eating made easy
But help is at hand. Sign up for the free Veganuary challenge to start living a healthier, plant-based lifestyle.
Veganuary is a month-long challenge run during January to promote the vegan lifestyle. The platform offers a supportive community, lots of recipes and daily motivation to help you stick to your healthy New Year’s Resolutions this year.
These features makes the transition easier and more enjoyable, and significantly improves your chances of sticking to your healthy resolutions past January.
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Support your vegan lifestyle
When you register to join the Veganuary challenge, you receive 31 daily emails full of helpful advice, recipes, nutritional info and more. You are also invited to join a closed Facebook group with fellow participants past and present who can help answer your specific questions. Best of all, it is completely free – perfect for that wafer-thin Janu-worry budget.
According to ProVeg International, it is now widely accepted that a plant-based diet offers many benefits compared with a diet based on animal products.
A rich and varied plant-based diet can prevent and treat of a host of modern lifestyle diseases, including some forms of cancer and hypertension.
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A healthier 2022
Dr Nanine Wyma, Managing Director of the Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) South Africa, agrees.
“A whole food plant-based diet has been proven to help with the management and prevention of lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity. A balanced plant-based diet is suitable for all stages of life as well as athletes. Eating whole plant foods including vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds will provide a diet that is high in fibre with zero cholesterol and adequate amounts of protein.”
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Sign up here to receive plant-based recipes, meal plans, information on nutrition and much more.
Author: Pedro van Gaalen
When he’s not writing about sport or health and fitness, Pedro is probably out training for his next marathon or ultra-marathon. He’s worked as a fitness professional and as a marketing and comms expert. He now combines his passions in his role as managing editor at Fitness magazine.
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