Your Health and Joy

Patricia Joy Becker

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Water, Water, Water Filters

Water makes up a majority of your body. Water promotes skin and muscle tone, assists in weight loss, transports nutrients to cells, eliminates toxins and wastes, and regulates body temperature. Choose  the Multipure Water Filter System that fits your needs. The Multipure Aquaversa - with kit for below the sink is the one I have. When you are properly hydrated, your organs are able to perform more optimally. Your metabolism will speed up, and you'll burn calories more Read more...

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Oats and Sweet Rice – Topped with Sweet Cinnamon Walnuts

This is one of my favorite cool morning breakfasts! The grains are cooked together the night before and reheated in the morning. That is exactly what we ate for breakfast this morning. And it really "stick to the ribs" i.e. gives you energy for many hours.  Whole Oats have a greater life force in our bodies and can be planted to grow more oats. (1) Whole Oat Groats are complex carbohydrate. Oatmeal is processed and a simpler carbohydrate.  Complex carbohydrates is like putting a big log in Read more...

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7 Benefits of Drinking Green Tea

Morning Rituals Drinking a cup or two of green tea is one for me. I enjoy the taste of organic loose leaf "Everyday Green Tea".  I ordered it bulk from the Imperial Tea Company and purchase it from there shop at Ferry Plaza Market in San Francisco. The list of health benefits are many; Here are just seven! It may prevent skin damage and wrinkling.  EGCG appears to be 200 times more powerful than vitamin E at destroying skin-damaging free radicals.  Source Care2 It contains a potent antioxidant Read more...

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The Lung and the Short of Healthy Eating this Fall

By Patricia Becker This is one of my articles I wrote for the Harbin Hots Springs Quarterly Magazine in about 1987 during my 5 years as a resident chef, cooking class teacher and diet coach.  I dusted it off the article, freshened it up.  It also is at Peace Quarters. Welcome to autumn! I would like to begin with a thought from Lao Tzu: Nature alternates dynamically when it completes what it is doing, then it starts over again. All that is springs from such alternation.   As we observe Read more...

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Yoga Therapy – Health Trend Doctors are Paying Attention To

Yoga therapy takes a more holistic approach to healing, focusing on patients as a whole instead of just on their conditions. The practice simultaneously works on the body, mind, and spirit, strengthening the body’s different systems. These include the heart and cardiovascular system, muscles, the lungs, as well as the body’s nervous system. Individuals may suffer from multiple conditions at once, so yoga therapy can be a multi-purpose form of healing. Yoga practices can simultaneously Read more...