Why Lizzo’s “Good As Hell” Is the New Anthem of Going Vegan

Lizzo has been feeling “good as hell” since she went vegan in 2020 and is inspiring others to do the identical by donating her hit music to a brand new video marketing campaign by animal-rights group Individuals for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA). Soundtracked by Lizzo’s 2016 hit single “Good as Hell,” the video contains a group of vegan celebrities who share bits of inspiration about plant-based consuming. 

The video opens with Sopranos actress Edie Falco asking, “Are you able to really feel good as hell?” whereas panning to NBA icon and longtime vegan John Salley spinning a cabbage on his finger like a basketball. “Once I was within the NBA, this gave me all of the vitality I wanted,” Salley stated, holding a head of purple cauliflower. “And, going vegan decreases your threat of Sort 2 diabetes, stroke, and coronary heart assaults,” Falco continues as further vegan celebrities seem on display to advertise the well being advantages of going vegan. 

The video additionally options appearances from Clueless star Alicia Silverstone and her son Bear Jarecki, Joker star Joaquin Phoenix, Too Sizzling to Deal with star Francesca Farago, comic Nikki Glaser (along with her beloved rescued pup Luigi), and Friday actress and chef Angela Means, together with nurses, lecturers, and different vegan changemakers. 

“I’ve been vegan for years and I don’t miss meat one bit,” Farago says. Whereas Lizzo doesn’t make a private look within the video, it closes with Glaser exclaiming “hit it, Lizzo,” prompting her recognizable “feeling good as hell” lyrics to cue again up.  

Well being advantages of going vegan

Whereas Lizzo’s music is a enjoyable option to have fun the feel-good resolution of going vegan, PETA’s new marketing campaign video touches on precise scientific analysis that helps the claims that going vegan could make you’re feeling good as hell. 

A rising variety of research have discovered a hyperlink between fruit and vegetable-rich diets and a decrease threat of coronary heart illness, Sort 2 diabetes, and sure cancers. Essentially the most current research on the subject was revealed earlier this month in scientific journal JAMA Oncology which in contrast two diets recognized for his or her weight reduction advantages, keto versus plant-based, and examined how every fared when it got here to most cancers prevention and post-treatment well being outcomes. 

“There are lots of biologic processes within the physique which might be impacted by weight loss plan and vitality steadiness typically. Many of those processes are concerned within the development of most cancers, akin to weight problems and irritation, hormones, insulin, the microbiome, and extra,” Research co-author Neil Iyengar, MD,  a medical oncologist at New York’s Memorial Sloan Most cancers Heart, stated in an announcement. “We study a number of of those processes in our assessment. The underside line for folks seeking to cut back their threat of most cancers is that the present proof helps a plant-based weight loss plan over a keto weight loss plan.”

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Lizzo’s vegan journey

After exploring a vegetarian weight loss plan for a while, Lizzo formally went vegan in the summertime of 2020. Followers have adopted her journey by means of recipe movies the Grammy-award successful musical artist shares on her social media platforms, notably TikTok. Within the final two years, Lizzo has uncovered her hundreds of thousands of followers to her vegan takes on McDonald’s McChicken sandwiches; “ice cream bread,” a profitable baking experiment utilizing Ben & Jerry’s vegan ice cream; and vegan-cheese topped Takis (her remedy for Sizzling Cheetos cravings). 

When she’s not making vegan meals herself, Lizzo helps followers discover the very best plant-based fare in her hometown of Los Angeles and past. Throughout her 2020 Juneteenth celebration, Lizzo highlighted the Black-owned companies that helped her create an over-the-top, at-home feast, together with Plate of Hue, Lettuce Feast, Munchies Diner, and The Fats Vegan. 

Celebs on Sandwiches

In a current serendipitous second, Lizzo sampled (and raved about) a plantain sandwich made by Black-owned Puerto Rican spot Black Rican Vegan in New York Metropolis. Shortly thereafter, Lizzo found that artist Jeff McCarthy already had a portray of her sitting on a vegan plantain sandwich as a part of his Celebrities on Sandwiches assortment—as if he predicted Lizzo’s love of plantain sandwiches.  

And in-between sharing vegan recipes, meals—and, in fact, furthering her wildly profitable music profession—Lizzo at all times finds time to close down haters with intelligent clapbacks on TikTok and ship messages of physique positivity by means of varied ventures, together with her new shapewear line Yitty.  

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Anna Starostinetskaya is the Senior Information Editor at VegNews and is at all times maintaining a tally of all issues vegan in her house metropolis of San Francisco, CA and in every single place else.