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May 16 2022 Patricia Becker yoga By

Miso Soup 101 ~ Profound Health Benefits

If you had an overly busy week, did not sleep the best and felt some stress, then miso soup is a very good thing to make and eat.  That is what I did! Miso 101: It is delicious and very nutritious. Ancient wisdom and scientific facts agree on the numerous health benefits of eating miso. Miso Soup 101: Add wakame seaweed, maitake mushrooms and your favorite vegetables and you have a magic formula for a healthy healing soup. It will likely make your belly, body and mind feel better. Miso Read more...

May 16 2022 Patricia Becker yoga By

Baked Root Vegetable Stew

Ingredients  1 medium size rutabaga or golden beet, cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 large carrot, rolled cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 medium size daikon, rolled cut in ¾ pieces 1 large Yukon Gold potato, cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 tablespoon rosemary 1 ½ cup water 2 tablespoon tamari 1 medium size onion, cubed in ½ inch pieces 1/8 teaspoon sea salt 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 tablespoon kudzu 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoon parsley, minced For your convivence, ingredients links to my Amazon Read more...

May 16 2022 Patricia Becker yoga By

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...

May 16 2022 Patricia Becker yoga By

Sugar Blues

The following is from a book that made... dramatic improvements in my physical and emotional health: While preparing his recurring volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific papers, recording experiments with food, their properties, and their effects on animals and humans. The material covered the period from the mid-18th century to Read more...

May 16 2022 Patricia Becker yoga By

What’s in your water?

How to save on your water bill! Since 1970, Multipure has manufactured drinking water systems that help provide solutions to environmental problems such as plastic water bottles, harmful contaminants and the careless waste of precious resources. We’re proud of the “green” products we manufacture using materials that are biodegradable and come from renewable resources. This is why I am a Multipure Independent Dist ID #430421  For More Information:     Contact Patricia Becker   650-285-1867 Read more...