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You can improve your health by switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet and prevent from chronic diseases? Its sounds nuts, right? Well, you might be surprised to know that a small change in your lifestyle can have a big impact on your health.. every meal at a time! As Hippocrates used to say: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Adopting a plant-based diet can help in lowering blood pressure and therefore prevent heart -related diseases such as strokes and heart attacks. Try to believe!
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If you choose a wholemeal plant-based lifestyle you can keep your weight down without counting calories or carbs and without measuring portions or feeling hungry? A wholemeal plant-based lifestyle contains less saturated fats (normally present in meat), the enemies of a healthy body!
You can get proteins without meat? That’s hard to believe but vegetables are packed with proteins! Have you ever thought that we can gain more protein eating broccoli than meat? Well, think twice...
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You can still eat junk food on a vegetarian or vegan diet ? Contrary to a popular disbelief, vegetarian and vegans do not only eat salads and greens. That’s true that a plant-based lifestyle is better for our health but this doesn’t mean that you can’t treat yourself with some comfort food once in a while! Pretty much everything can be made vegan or vegetarian.. check these pictures out!
You can still have social life being vegetarian/vegan? If you decide to make this life choice don’t panic, you can still hang out with your friends! There is a rising in places that have vegetarian/vegan options so you won’t feel like the alien of the group. Plus your choice might make your friends curious and encourage a positive change in them!
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Eating meat contributes to the destruction of the rainforest, which is a major source of oxygen for the planet and our survival? Meat production on a big scale requires a great amount of land where the animals can be fed and raised. To keep up with the global demand for meat it is essential to create new spaces for breeding animals destined to human consumption in a quick time. For this reason forests such as the Amazon are destroyed every day causing a loss of unique biodiversity and worsening the planet health.
Anytime you choose vegetarian and vegan you can save animals’ lives? You can calculate how many on this cool website:
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Some restaurants to enjoy vegetarian/vegan food in Zagreb
NOTE: These are places where you will find veggie& vegan food for sure but don’t be shy to ask for vegetarian and vegan options in any other restaurant!
Tasks TO try
To try out some cool new things in this subject we recommend the following:
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COOL WEBSITE FOR BEING VEGAN IN ZAGREB