Cinnamon For Weight Loss
Cinnamon has been used in a host of traditional Indian, Turkish, and Persian cuisines, to provide flavour to curries and other food items for centuries. Unfortunately, Western society may be…
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Whole Grains – a wholesome way to lower blood pressure
Did you know that wholegrains can have the same blood pressure lowering effect as some medications? That’s what a randomised controlled trial published in the American Journal of…
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Salt and High Blood Pressure – the things you need to know
The world is in love with salt, the tiny white particles of seasoning that somehow makes food taste so much better. But we might have taken the love affair a bit too far. In 2010, it was…
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Reducing Sodium Intake – 5 ways to eat less salt
Salt is an essential nutrient in our body but that doesn’t mean loading up on excess salt is a good idea. In America, 90% of people over the age of 2 (that’s including children!)…
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The Expensive Traps in the Plant-Based Diet – the costly things to avoid
For many people transitioning to a plant-based diet, it’s fair to say that we’re all quite conscious of what we put in our bodies. It’s normal to then want the best quality…
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Leftover Fruit and Vegetables – ways use them up and reduce food waste
Our plant-based journey also has a journey in itself. We have a goal to reduce our food waste and one of the ways is to use up all of our fresh produce before they go bad. Sometimes…
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Sustainable Plant-Based Eating – how to do your part
There is no doubt that eating a plant-based diet is good for the earth. Even if the environment wasn’t one of reasons why you chose to go plant-based, we believe that everyone has a role…
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How to Grocery Shop on a Budget – 10 ways to save money
We’re always looking for ways to save money and grocery shopping is one of them! Eating a whole-foods plant-based diet doesn’t have to cost a lot especially if you know a few tips and tricks.…
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How to Master Grocery Shopping – 10 tips and tricks
Grocery shopping would have to be the highlight of my week. I absolutely love going to the grocery store and browsing; taking my time to push the trolley and appreciating the wonderful and…
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Living With Someone Who Isn’t Plant-Based? – how to co-exist
Do you want to go vegan or vegetarian but your partner (or the people who you’re living with) are not on board? How do you deal with the differences in food, meals, grocery shopping and…
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Let’s Talk About Your Plant-Based Diet – how to approach the discussion
The plant-based diet has grown in popularity over the recent years. So too has the community, which we consider as one of the most beautiful, kind and supportive groups we have ever come…
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Antioxidants, Nitric Oxide and Your Arteries – foods to lower your high blood pressure
In our early years of medical school, one of the very first things we learnt about was high blood pressure. Nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension with only 1 in 4 adults…
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Flaxseeds are Potent Anti-Hypertensives – how eating them can reduce your high blood pressure
If you’ve been following our blog, then you’ll know that we absolutely love flaxseed. We include it in everything… our breakfast oats, smoothies, baking and the likes. Our…
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An Inflamed Mood and Mind – can a plant-based diet help with brain inflammation?
There is no doubt that eating a plant-based diet does wonders for the body. Physical benefits include reducing the risk of chronic diseases and promoting sustainable weight management.…
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Feeling Hungrier and Hungrier? – how to overcome transitional hunger
Transitional hunger is a common symptom to experience when we changeover to a new diet, be it plant-based or otherwise. It is the type of hunger that randomly appears throughout the day, soon…
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Starting the Plant-Based Diet – 5 things to keep in mind
Starting out on a plant-based diet is exciting and overwhelming. Venturing into a new realm of eating can be fun but it’s also easy to get caught up in the minutia. Trying to find fancy…
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Happy Hormonal Seeds – foods to naturally boost serotonin levels
The most popular kid in brain school would have to be serotonin. Serotonin has the ability to make people feel happy, warm and cuddly; earning itself the nickname: the Happiness Hormone. The…
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How to Approach Plant-Based Foods – a wholesome guide
Venturing into a new world of eating plant foods without any animal products can be daunting. We are so used to basing our meals around meat while vegetables are often considered as a side.…
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The Mind Art of Coffee – how a morning cup can help your mood
One of the most pleasant things in life is coffee art. It’s such a wonderful moment when the barista hands us our coffee and we see an unexpected heart (or two!) beaming up at us. Seeing…
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Matcha Exercise with Green Tea – weight loss and toning benefits
Green tea has been shown to cause weight loss by increasing metabolism and fat breakdown as well as decreasing the digestion and absorption of fats in our stomachs and intestines. It has also…
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How to Succeed with the Plant-Based Diet – 3 essential things
Starting a plant-based diet is like building a house. You have to lay the foundations before you tile the roof. A strong foundation will hold the house when things get tough. These are the 3…
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Coffee and Spicy Meals – why we combine both to lose weight
Sprinkling on red pepper to our meals and enjoying coffees beside them is a possible way to eat less food everyday without even realising it. That may sound like a bit of a strange combination…
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Wine and Dine – what about our waistlines?
Whether you’re a riesling kind of person or prefer a pinot noir with your meals, if you love wining and dining, then this article is for you. A typical glass of sauvignon blanc comes…
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Eat Smaller Meals More Frequently – will this really help you lose weight?
A common weight loss tip that we have all come across is: eat smaller meals more frequently. I’ve certainly heard it from my senior health professionals, Instagram influencers and…
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A Greener Appetite – how thylakoids can help you lose weight and lower cholesterol
We’ve been told since forever to eat our greens and plenty of it. Apart from essentially being very low in energy density (which helps us feel full without the excess calories) and…
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Ginger and Happier Periods – how ginger can help with the time of the month
Happy periods simply don’t exist. Unless we’re talking about a pregnancy scare… (in which we’ll be praying for it to rain red and promising that we’ll never hate…
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Lose Weight & Drop Cholesterol Levels With Cumin
Cumin is one of the most popular culinary spices in the world. It has also been used in traditional medicine for numerous conditions. What if cumin can be used to help with weight loss and…
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The Fuss About Vitamin B12
What is Vitamin B12? Vitamin B12 is also known as cobalamin. It is an essential vitamin for red blood cell formation, neurological function and DNA synthesis. When metabolised, it exists as…
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Grind in Black Cumin for Weight Loss
Black Cumin, otherwise known as Nigella Sativa and a variety of other names, is a widely used spice Indian, Middle Eastern and Polish cuisines. Historically, it has also seen wide use in…
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How to Start a Plant-Based Diet – 5 practical tips for everyone
Starting a plant-based diet is hard. But the more we practice our craft, the better we get at it right? This is why we thought about the 5 most practical tips that has helped us start a…
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Barberries for Weight Loss and Acne Management
Barberries have historically been used in traditional medicine for many, many years. Now, they are most commonly used in Iran for culinary purposes. However in recent years, berberine,…
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Find Plantiful of Friends – you will need them for your journey
One of my favourite tips for people transitioning to a plant-based diet is to find plantiful of plant-powered friends. The reason? The same as to why we find it so much easier to workout with…
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The Sweetest Way To Lose Weight
What if there was a natural alternative to sugars and artificial sweeteners that could also help us lose weight? It sounds too good to be true… except that it isn’t! Yacon Syrup…
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Become a Flexitarian – 4 reasons why it could help you transition to a plant-based diet
My transition to a plant-based diet was significantly made easier by being a flexitarian. A flexitarian is someone who is semi-vegetarian. The aim is to have a diet rich in plant-based foods…
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Add Flaxseeds To Lose Weight & Improve Our Health
Something as simple as two spoonfuls of ground flaxseeds a day has been shown to cause significant weight loss, take inches off our waists as well as a host of other health benefits. As usual,…
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What’s in that Juice?
We all know that eating fruit is healthy. Fruits are high in nutrient density and low in calories. It also has numerous beneficial properties such as anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals and…
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AMPing Weight Loss and Energy Levels with Vinegar
Something as simple as a couple of tablespoons can of vinegar a day can significantly benefit our health and wellbeing. This is never told to us though because unfortunately no pharmaceutical…
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Ginger for Migraines
If anything was to make me vanish off the face of the earth in an instant, it would have to be a migraine. I imagine my migraines to be these little red devils, silently creeping up to one…
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How to Lose Stubborn Fat by Spicing Up Our Lives
Adding Cayenne pepper to our meals daily can boost our metabolism and burn specifically fat mass. Additionally, new studies are finding benefits of spices in athletic performance! Let’s…
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Eat Out & Still Lose Weight?
Our environment plays an important role in our food intake and behaviour. Eating out at restaurants is one component that has been attributed to the increased prevalence of obesity. We are…
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Vegetarians, Vegans & Eating Disorders
These two words, vegans and eating disorders, remind me of a story that has stuck with me since the start of uni. I was on placement with a colleague. We were chasing our last set of blood…
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The WFPB Lifestyle Experiment >> put your coat & safety goggles on
One of our messages here on Embody Nourish is and always will be that a whole foods plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle is optimal for our health and wellbeing. There is substantial scientific…
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Become An Early Bird
Since history, dinner has been entrenched in our minds as the main meal of the day. There are many reasons why. Psychologically, we find it very comforting to look forward to a big meal after…
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Why Plant-Based For Heart Disease
Numero Uno Heart disease is the number one killer worldwide with strokes ranking second. Per Million Hearts data, in the USA: Approximately 1.5 million heart attacks and strokes occur every…
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Eat Unprocessed Whole-foods for Weight Loss
In 2019, an excellent study was performed to demonstrate the differences in weight change when comparing a diet of equal calories but using unprocessed vs processed foods as variables. The…
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Eat More to Weigh Less (and Improve Your Health)
Modern dieting methods typically encourage us to eat less by controlling our portion sizes. This often leaves people feeling tired, hungry and unsatisfied which may then lead to compensatory…
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Why You Should Eat a Snack Just Before Dinner
What if we told you that snacking just before dinner will help you lose weight? We know this sounds absurd. Eating dinner already means a set amount of calories. But snacking before dinner?…
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Why Are We Drawn To Calorie-Rich Foods?
For much of recent history, society has been reaching for ultra-processed, highly caloric fast/junk foods instead of natural and unprocessed whole-foods. We are now paying for these choices as…
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What We Eat to Avoid Jet Lag
For those of us who love exploring the world, jet lag is the travel buddy we all want to avoid. Sometimes though, it’s inevitable. The burning desire to walk through the beautiful…
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5 High Protein Vegetables For Your Next Meal
For many of us who lead an active lifestyle, getting enough protein in our diet is a genuine concern. Protein is an essential macronutrient for the body. It is involved in many metabolic…
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5 Vegetables That Can Substitute for Meat
For those of us who grew up as omnivores, sometimes we miss our favourite meat-based recipes. A lot of the times for me it’s the nostalgia and childhood memories that make me more fond…
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Go Nuts for These 6 High Protein Nuts
Nuts are a wonderful way to make sure your diet is balanced and healthy. They are a nutritional powerhouse for everyone especially those on a plant-based diet. Nuts are a source of healthy…
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5 High Protein Fruits to Snack On
My approach to food has always been simple. I listen to the wants and needs of my body and mind. It doesn’t involve counting calories or macronutrients like carbs, fats or protein.…
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3 Meat Substitutes That Are A Little Bit Different
Creating vegan adaptations of meat-based recipes is an art. I find it challenging yet so rewarding when I’m able to replace an animal-based protein in favour of a plant-protein.…
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5 Ways to Eat Less Meat
A lot of us want to eat less meat but we don’t know where to start. It’s difficult to change something that has been a way of life since we were young. But there are so many people…
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