PLANT-BASED DIET
Conscientiously carving out a healthy diet can be a challenge at the best of times, but if you’re working out regularly and looking to support your fitness goals, meticulous planning is needed.
The first thing to consider is the type of diet that best suits you. More and more athletes are choosing to fuel their performance with a plant-based diet that excludes animal products. If you think this isn’t realistic, a growing body of research shows that you don’t need to eat meat and other animal produce to optimise performance – provided that you monitor your macronutrient and micronutrient intake, and make sure to include some supplementation where necessary.
Rewind just 10 years ago, however, and plant-based diets were considered faddy, restrictive and downright unappealing – especially when it plant-based diet have been debunked,’ explains Rhiannon Lambert, (), a leading nutritionist and bestselling author of (£20, DK).
