Maintaining a healthy weight is more than about how we look. Sure, fitting into your favourite jeans is a plus, but losing weight has many added benefits for our health, wellbeing and longevity. And the best way to achieve this is with a plant-based diet.

A massive rise in numbers of people across the world eating a plant-based diet challenges conventional beliefs that we require animal products to be healthy and highlights that there may be a healthier, more sustainable way forward.