Chef Arnaud Hauchon (Fivelements): Adopting a plant-based diet is the first step to unlocking other healthy habits. It is a step towards a bigger understanding, and is also compassionate and mindful.
LIM LI YING: ‘The links between diet and health have been thrust into the spotlight with Netflix’s documentary The Game Changers, in which Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and former body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger discuss success on a plant-based diet… Demand for plant-based options are on the rise. Apart from plant-based meat options, there is a need to look at the implications of a plant-based diet… Chef Arnaud Hauchon, culinary curator at Fivelements, understands the lifestyle and how we can no longer “force” people to convert to a diet.
“All of the deadliest diseases Western people face nowadays can be cured thanks to a whole food, well-managed plant based diet,” says Arnaud. He started embracing a plant-based diet about 16 years ago. “At 28 years of age, I went through quite a few life changing experiences that led to my evolution towards a vegan diet a year afterwards. My first motivations were spiritual [to follow the wish of not harming animals], I then learned about the sustainability of the diet. I intuitively knew that a plant-based diet was way more healthy”…
Arnaud believes that adopting a plant-based diet is the first step to unlocking other healthy habits… “Because of the nature of a plant-based diet, a person will lose weight, and tend towards a lower BMI (body mass index), have plenty of minerals and vitamins, water, fibre and will have more vitality to practise other health-enhancing activities,” Arnaud says… “A plant-based diet is a step towards a bigger understanding and is also compassionate and mindful”.’ SOURCE…
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