With lots of festivals taking place throughout the Summer and with Glastonbury in full swing, it’s incredibly important to stay healthy during the summer festival season.
Here are my top tips on staying healthy at festivals!
HYDRATE, HYDRATE & HYDRATE!
It’s so easy to dehydrate at festivals especially when dancing for hours to your favourite band or walking in the heat.
Remember that alcohol dehydrates you too!
So, throughout the day, keep downing the water.
ALCOHOL
If you are drinking alcohol during a festival, which, let’s be honest, is highly likely. I suggest drinking water between alcoholic drinks to prevent dehydration.
Interestingly enough, Prosecco & spirits with tonic waters, such as Gin and Tonic, have the least calories. Unfortunately the worst is Cider (and I’m from Somerset!) due to its high sugar content.
EXERCISE
When it comes to exercise, you will be walking all day long and dancing so there is no problem getting loads of exercise.
Especially with Glastonbury Festival, which is as big as a city, taking an hour to walk across the whole site.
Having a bike can help!
FOOD
Many of the alternative festivals have an amazing array of healthy food options to choose from.
One of my favourites at Glastonbury is the Thali Café with their amazingly tasty veg packed curries.
Festivals such as Glastonbury, Womad, and Bestival have lovely whole food cafes, serving freshly ground organic coffee and healthy wholesome food all day long.
Our range of Low Calorie Snacks are great for carrying in your bags or pockets for a quick and easy little pick-me-up throughout the day, keeping your energy levels up.
Our Protein Bars are also great for keeping your protein levels up where they need to be to fuel all that dancing and walking, as well as helping your muscles to recover.
SUNCREAM
As the ‘Baz Luhrman’ track once said, always wear sun cream, and it’s true. It’s super essential to protect yourself every day to stop you turning into a prune by the age of 30!
Even when it’s cloudy – as the sun can still make you burn, especially if you’re chilling, sitting on the grass all day!
ONE LAST THING!
Make sure you pack the baby wipes and wellies as you never know where your next shower is coming or how many rain showers there may be! So be prepared.
Above all though, have a blast and be a free spirit!
Festivals are places you can truly be yourself, to find and discover new music, cultures and wholesome foods.
Staying healthy at festivals doesn’t have to be boring!
Looking for a quick healthy and nutritious snack to take with you?
Check out Pulsin’s snack bar range!
