Lily Aldridge Loves 'Sakara Life's' Plant-Based Diet, Getting A Big Boost From 'The Game Changers' Documentary

Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge is not new to a plant-based diet developed by vegetarian meal delivery service Sakara Life. Founded in 2011 by Danielle Duboise and Whitney Tingle, the GOOP-endorsed organic, vegetarian food delivery service was founded on the principle that food is medicine. Models Erin Heatherton, Hilary Rhoda and Karolina Kurkova also use Sakara. Note that Sakara does use honey, but will eliminate it from its dishes. The delivery service is expensive, but its testimonials ring true in 'The Game Changers' described by Vogue as "the shocking new documentary that will change the way you look at meat."

“When I first saw the study that indicated Roman gladiators were eating almost exclusively plants, I thought it had to be bs,” says James Wilks, a special forces trainer, winner of The Ultimate Fighter, and the star of The Game Changers, a new documentary set out to debunk the myth that meat is necessary for protein, strength, and good health through an exhaustive—and persuasive—lineup of tests and interviews with pro athletes, soldiers, and scientists. “After thousands of hours of research, [I realized that] everything I thought about nutrition—eating meat and eggs and milk for your bones—was totally untrue . . . I was shocked.”

Eventually, Wilks called in the big guns.

“I liken it to a MMA [mixed martial arts] fight, with three rounds,“ he says of the six-year filmmaking process, which started with a Craigslist-bought handheld camera and eventually led him to an award-winning documentary team that includes director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove), executive producer James Cameron, and writers and editors that are responsible for the likes of An Inconvenient Truth, Chasing Ice, and the non-commercial, fact-based website NutritionFacts.org. The result is a groundbreaking picture, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, that follows top athletes and regular people alike across four continents for the pursuit of truth in the name of protein. Here, the five most fascinating facts surrounding a plant-based diet.

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, October 2007

Read on at Vogue , but note a few key facts:

Half of fresh water supply is used to produce animal food in America. Every year, farm animals produce 130 times more waste than the entire human population combined. Livestock is responsible for 15 percent of global, man-made emissions, an equivalent sum to all the emissions from all the forms of transport in the world (planes, trains, automobiles, ships . . .). If you're an environmentalist who can't afford a hybrid car, do not worry. Living on a plant-based diet is far more effective, say scientists, and this new game-changing documentary flips inside out everything you think you know about sources of protein. It even takes on the research around the paleo diet, sharing instead what Roman gladiators really ate.