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    • SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

    Intuitive Eating with a Medical Condition

    Intuitive Eating with a Medical Condition by Alex Cisneros, Registered Dietitian Student, University of Houston Intuitive Eating is for everyone. How intuitive eating may look for everyone, differs tremendously. Being diagnosed with a chronic or lifestyle related disease usually leads to being placed on a specific diet to help treat and manage your health condition.Read more
    • DECEMBER 9, 2019

    The Importance of Community

    Importance of community can not be understated. It is one of the 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine, along with plant-based nutrition, exercise, stress management, avoiding tobacco/alcohol, and getting adequate sleep. We frequently discuss the benefits of eating a whole food plant based diet and also at times the importance of exercise and stress management in

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    • MAY 12, 2019

    Mother Earth

    This is perhaps a coincidence that Mother’s Day this year is on the same day as our biweekly blog posting. In either case it seemed fitting to do this blog as a tribute to all the mothers with a special appreciation to the mother that is common to all of the wondrous creatures that inhabit

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    • JANUARY 13, 2019
    Health and Longevity Lessons from the Blue Zones

    Health and Longevity Lessons from the Blue Zones

    We all want to live long and healthy lives. Scientific research can certainly guide us on how to achieve this goal. But perhaps even more compelling would be to look at the populations on this planet who have exceptionally long health spans and life spans. Many of you may already be familiar with the Blue

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    • DECEMBER 23, 2018
    Mindfulness meditation 1.1

    Mindfulness meditation 1.1

    All of us at Embee Plant Physicians would like to wish all of you Happy and Healthy Holidays! Here is a short video on mindfulness to help you stay present, joyful and stress-free.

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    • SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
    Why pursue Health and Wellness?

    Why pursue Health and Wellness?

    Before we discuss the why, let’s define these terms. World Health Organization states “Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” So our goal should be not just absence of disease but actually presence of health and well-being. This well-being can be accomplished

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    • MARCH 25, 2018

    Health and Wellness: Meditation

      Continuing with our theme of mindfulness for the month of March, we will look at Meditation as an essential part of holistic wellness. Mindful practice of yoga improves not only our physical health but also our emotional health. Similarly, practice of meditation, in addition to improving our emotional health also improves our physical health.

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    • MARCH 11, 2018

    Health and Wellness: Yoga

      On an earlier blog we looked briefly at the benefits of exercise. On today’s blog, we’ll focus on yoga. More so than in other blogs, due to the vastness of this topic, instead of giving a lot of information in the blog, our effort is to point the reader to different resources which allow

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    • AUGUST 7, 2017

    Health and Wellness: The Holistic Approach

      Blog 4.0: Three keys to Wellness   In the previous 2 posts, we have focused primarily on nutrition and its effects on health. We have seen how animal foods undermine our health and how plant based foods promote our health. But to foster health and wellness, 2 other crucial components are needed – exercise

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