Your Health and Joy

Patricia Joy Becker

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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...

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Crunchy Oriental Salad

Crunchy Asian Salad 1      head Napa (Chinese) cabbage, cut finely 2      ears corn, de-cobbed 1      carrot, grated 1/2    bunch cilantro, cut finely 1      small cucumber, peeled and cubed into 1/2-inch bites 1      tomato, diced, or 1/2 red pepper, diced 1      package Westbrae or Soken ramen noodles 1 1/2  teaspoons sesame oil 1/3    cup brown rice vinegar 2      tablespoons mirin - Japanese cooking sake 2      tablespoons tamari 2      Read more...

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Enhance Your Health, Home Relationships, and Wealth

After Monday Dinner Event -Monday August 29th 7:30 pm 305 N. California Ave, Palo Alto CA Enhance Your Health, Home Relationships, and Wealth with Christina Grant, Ph.D., holistic healer, intuitive counselor, and author. * Learn more from Christina as a featured presenter on the Radiant Wellness Classes. * August 29th, she will discuss how you can enhance your life and improve areas of difficulty you might be experiencing through having an awareness of the energy flow in your home. A Read more...