From dairy-free milk alternatives to live-streamed PE lessons, this year has seen lots of new and health and wellness movements burst into the scene. New ways to manage mental and physical health are always coming into the spotlight, whether as part of a trend or on the advice of medical professionals. What trends could be coming in 2021?

Flexitarian Diets

A flexitarian is someone who eats a mixture of vegan, vegetarian, and pescatarian diets. While not a new trend, it is growing in popularity, partly due to the rise of veganism and more people taking animal welfare and the environmental impact of meat products more seriously. 

A flexitarian eats a mainly plant-based diet, but occasionally incorporates meat, fish, or meat products. It lets people set their own rules based on their own health, and is a good way to reduce your carbon footprint without excluding anything from your diet. 

Eating flexitarian has become easier, with more big-name supermarkets expanding their plant-free ranges and more plant-free recipes in food recipes. 

Vaping

With a big push from health organizations for people to give up smoking, many people have swapped to vaping instead. Vaping is a way for people to get their nicotine hit without the other harmful nasties you find in cigarettes. The rise of vaping has also come up in tandem with the rise of CBD, which can be consumed in a vape, from bloomfarmscbd.com. 

Vapes, also known as e-cigarettes, are helpful for those who want to quit smoking for health reasons but are struggling to give up the habit completely. Vapes have a lower risk than cigarettes and can be effective as a step on the way to quitting.

Talking Mental Health

When feelings of loneliness or hopelessness takeover, we all look for ways to help ourselves. One of the most popular trends that are gaining momentum for 2021, and that is only getting more popular, is solution-focused hypnotherapy. 
Hypnotherapy like this focuses on what the client wants to achieve in a healthy mindset instead of what the problem is that prompted them to get help in the first place. A mix between hypnotherapy and psychotherapy is becoming a more and more popular way for people to face their issues and look forward in a positive way.

Online Fitness Classes

Due to the introduction of lockdown measures in the spring saw a lot of people head online to get in their workout. With more countries returning to lockdown measures, it seems likely that fitness instructors and personal trainers will stay online and keep diversifying their offer for a while longer. 

Heading onto YouTube for a pre-recorded workout is a popular way to get your exercise every day at a time that suits you, and has been for a while. Next year, it’s likely that we’ll see a big increase in live group fitness classes via Zoom, that can accommodate a lot of people.

Remember that trends always come and go, and while it can be fun to try a new trend, you don’t have to ditch your tried and tested tricks. 

by Contributing Author