Into vegetarian lifestyle
Loshalaba Lifestyle Health Center is aimed at promoting healthy eating lifestyle and Vegetarianism.
Director at Loshalaba Lifestyle Health Center, Pastor Japane Nkape says that being a vegetarian goes a long way to improving one’s general health and to avoid lifestyle diseases. Tried and tested, he has been a Lacto vegetarian for over 38 years now. He has thus started Loshalaba wellness initiative, alongside his wife who is a Lacto- ovo vegetarian, with an aim to provide holistic care to individuals, families and the community on lifestyle management.
“Our goal is to improve the quality of life through education, support and counselling, and mainly promote treatment and reversal of lifestyle diseases,” he says.
They offer Vegetarian Cooking classes to those desiring to become Vegetarians, sell vegetarian products and also do different types of therapeutic massages. Nkape says that it is never easy being a vegetarian as people associate it with tasteless food, which is actually not the case, especially in today’s era where a lot has been improved.
“The healthy vegetarian products that we are selling are manufactured from Soya Beans and other nuts like Cashew Nuts. We sell Soya Chunks and Mince, Vegetarian Chicken Julienne, Vegetarian Prawn, Vegetarian Cashew Nut Ball, Tofu, Vegan Nuggets, Vegetarian Hot Dogs, Vegan Chicken Julienne and many more are in stock,” he says, explaining that this allows vegetarians to have a wide variety of yummy meals while benefiting a healthy eating lifestyle too. They are based in Maun, but courier their products nationwide.
“Vegetarian meals are not boring and tasteless as people put it. All that people need are skills to prepare plant based diets, hence the existence of Loshalaba,” he says.
He emphasizes that benefits of vegetarian lifestyle help people against lifestyle diseases including: heart conditions, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity and also lowers the blood pressure.
He is glad to share with BG Lifestyle that, living a Vegetarian lifestyle has helped him to avoid many illnesses that men his age now suffer from. “It was not easy to become a Vegetarian during those years as it was very difficult to find the meat substitutes, compared to today,” shares Pastor Nkape. He also highlights that preaching of the Health message was very strong in the Seventh- day Adventist Church in the early 1980’ s and it was in the midst of this preaching that he decided to become a Lacto Vegetarian in April 1984 to date. “The Vegetarian lifestyle benefited me much to the extent that I avoided many illnesses found among men of my age, 57 years and above,” he says. Lacto Vegetarian, means that one does not eat meat, poultry, fish or eggs but consumes dairy products, while Lacto- Ovo Vegetarians do not eat meat, poultry, or fish, but do eat eggs and dairy products. Pastor Nkape emphasizes that clean eating is what people are now looking into by adopting healthy eating habits in order to live longer and avoid some of the lifestyle diseases.