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The Essence of Yoga as Therapy

Source https://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-articles/yoga-therapy/

Yoga is a therapeutic practice at all levels—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. When used appropriately, it has the power to heal, balancing each of the above aspects and bringing them into harmony with each other. Even for healthy practitioners, yoga is therapeutic, working to strengthen and refine all aspects of their system. Getting out of balance and becoming sick, or sustaining an injury through practice, is a sign to reevaluate your approach, and to apply the principles of yoga to all aspects of life, not just to what is practiced on the mat.

The great 20th century yogi Tirumalai Krishnamacharya from Mysore, India represented the epitome of the art and science of yoga as a healing practice. From gaining initial recognition under the patronage of the Mysore King, Maharaja Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar, in the 1920s and 30s, Krishnamacharya became famous for successfully treating patients with yoga therapy. Often, these patients were unresponsive to Western allopathic medicine and so several came to him as a last resort.

An innately talented healer, Krishnamacharya had a vast knowledge of yoga, and related disciplines, along with a wealth of practical experience. His approach was always to treat each person as an individual, using whatever aspects he felt the situation required. These could be a combination of āsana, <a href="https:…

Source https://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-articles/yoga-therapy/

Yoga is a therapeutic practice at all levels—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. When used appropriately, it has the power to heal, balancing each of the above aspects and bringing them into harmony with each other. Even for healthy practitioners, yoga is therapeutic, working to strengthen and refine all aspects of their system. Getting out of balance and becoming sick, or sustaining an injury through practice, is a sign to reevaluate your approach, and to apply the principles of yoga to all aspects of life, not just to what is practiced on the mat.

The great 20th century yogi Tirumalai Krishnamacharya from Mysore, India represented the epitome of the art and science of yoga as a healing practice. From gaining initial recognition under the patronage of the Mysore King, Maharaja Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar, in the 1920s and 30s, Krishnamacharya became famous for successfully treating patients with yoga therapy. Often, these patients were unresponsive to Western allopathic medicine and so several came to him as a last resort.

An innately talented healer, Krishnamacharya had a vast knowledge of yoga, and related disciplines, along with a wealth of practical experience. His approach was always to treat each person as an individual, using whatever aspects he felt the situation required. These could be a combination of āsana, <a href="https:…

My Top 9 Most Popular Recipes + Posts

Source https://www.fannetasticfood.com/most-popular-recipes-posts/

Hi friends! In honor of this week marking my 9 year blogging anniversary (whoa!), I thought today it would be fun to round up my 9 most popular recipes and blog posts of all time. Surprisingly, I actually don’t delve into my analytics all that often (I’m sure I probably should), so it was really fascinating to find out what are my most viewed recipes and posts on the blog! If you haven’t checked these out yet, I hope you will! I’ll start with #9, building up to #1, my most popular post/recipe of all time.

Let’s do this – my top 9 most popular posts + recipes are:

#9: How to Make Oatmeal More Filling and TastyI love that this post is popular! I am very passionate about the fact that everyone needs to learn how to make oatmeal that actually tastes good (and keeps them full for more than 30 seconds). I’m looking at you, tasteless and gummy oatmeal made with water…

how to make oatmeal more filling

#8: Scrambled Egg MuffinsThese make such a great portable snack or on the go breakfast! I should…

Source https://www.fannetasticfood.com/most-popular-recipes-posts/

Hi friends! In honor of this week marking my 9 year blogging anniversary (whoa!), I thought today it would be fun to round up my 9 most popular recipes and blog posts of all time. Surprisingly, I actually don’t delve into my analytics all that often (I’m sure I probably should), so it was really fascinating to find out what are my most viewed recipes and posts on the blog! If you haven’t checked these out yet, I hope you will! I’ll start with #9, building up to #1, my most popular post/recipe of all time.

Let’s do this – my top 9 most popular posts + recipes are:

#9: How to Make Oatmeal More Filling and TastyI love that this post is popular! I am very passionate about the fact that everyone needs to learn how to make oatmeal that actually tastes good (and keeps them full for more than 30 seconds). I’m looking at you, tasteless and gummy oatmeal made with water…

how to make oatmeal more filling

#8: Scrambled Egg MuffinsThese make such a great portable snack or on the go breakfast! I should…

Weekend Reading: Eating NAFTA

Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2018/10/weekend-reading-eating-nafta/

Alyshia Gálvez.  Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico.  University of California Press, 2018.

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This compelling book, by a Lehman College professor of Latin American Studies, links US trade policies to the destruction of Mexico’s corn economy and consequent destruction of Mexico’s traditional food culture, and shows how that destruction affected immigration, the border wall, drug wars, and, ultimately, public health.

Mexican food—real Mexican food—“is falling out of reach for many Mexican people,” she says.

Trade policies, in this case the North American Free Trade Agreement (just signed), not only affect what people eat, but also their health.

Gálvez starts by explaining

Using a Latin American studies frame, we can see that ever since the European conquest, ideas about citizenship, responsibility, and capability in the hemisphere have been viewed through the lenses of racialization, calss, and gender.  The same social groups viewe…

Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2018/10/weekend-reading-eating-nafta/

Alyshia Gálvez.  Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico.  University of California Press, 2018.

Image result for eating nafta

This compelling book, by a Lehman College professor of Latin American Studies, links US trade policies to the destruction of Mexico’s corn economy and consequent destruction of Mexico’s traditional food culture, and shows how that destruction affected immigration, the border wall, drug wars, and, ultimately, public health.

Mexican food—real Mexican food—“is falling out of reach for many Mexican people,” she says.

Trade policies, in this case the North American Free Trade Agreement (just signed), not only affect what people eat, but also their health.

Gálvez starts by explaining

Using a Latin American studies frame, we can see that ever since the European conquest, ideas about citizenship, responsibility, and capability in the hemisphere have been viewed through the lenses of racialization, calss, and gender.  The same social groups viewe…

Osteoporosis Drugs May Prevent Bone Fractures in Older Women

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/bone-health-drug-for-women.html

Drugs normally used for osteoporosis may help treat women who suffer from moderate bone loss, according to a new study….

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/bone-health-drug-for-women.html

Drugs normally used for osteoporosis may help treat women who suffer from moderate bone loss, according to a new study….

An Oscar Winner’s Tribute to a Remarkable Parent

Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/better-thinking/an-oscar-winners-tribute-to-a-remarkable-parent

by Lynn Posluns for Women’s Brain Health Initiative: Marcia Gay Harden has played many memorable women in her remarkable career, winning acclaim on Broadway, TV and in the movies and picking up an Academy Award along the way. But no woman……

Source: https://womensbrainhealth.org/better-thinking/an-oscar-winners-tribute-to-a-remarkable-parent

by Lynn Posluns for Women’s Brain Health Initiative: Marcia Gay Harden has played many memorable women in her remarkable career, winning acclaim on Broadway, TV and in the movies and picking up an Academy Award along the way. But no woman……

The Grounded Challenge: Practice Mindfulness with Your Difficulties

Source https://zenhabits.net/grounded/

By Leo Babauta

Our lives are filled with difficulties, from frustration and stress to illness and loss, from uncertainty and doubt to fear and guilt … but while they can often be the source of wearing us down, they can also be a source of growth, transformation and beauty.

Most of us don’t think of our difficulties as a source of beauty, but what if we could be grounded in the middle of the difficulty, turn towards the struggle instead of away from it, and be fully present to it? What if we could learn to befriend it, even love it? What if we could find gratitude and joy in the midst of the pain?

This month, I offer you a challenge. It’s to practice mindfulness with all of your difficulties. I’m calling it the Grounded Challenge.

I’ll give you an example before sharing how the challenge works … I just got back from a 3-week trip around the world, and I’m suffering from really strong jetlag. This is easily something I could complain about, and let it become a huge problem. And sure, it is a problem … but it’s also a great practice opportunity.

Here’s how I’ve been practicing (and please note that this is only one way to practice):

I notice the tiredness, the stress about not sleeping well, the feeling of not wanting to do all the work that’s piled up, the wanting to shut down to everything. I mindfully drop …

Source https://zenhabits.net/grounded/

By Leo Babauta

Our lives are filled with difficulties, from frustration and stress to illness and loss, from uncertainty and doubt to fear and guilt … but while they can often be the source of wearing us down, they can also be a source of growth, transformation and beauty.

Most of us don’t think of our difficulties as a source of beauty, but what if we could be grounded in the middle of the difficulty, turn towards the struggle instead of away from it, and be fully present to it? What if we could learn to befriend it, even love it? What if we could find gratitude and joy in the midst of the pain?

This month, I offer you a challenge. It’s to practice mindfulness with all of your difficulties. I’m calling it the Grounded Challenge.

I’ll give you an example before sharing how the challenge works … I just got back from a 3-week trip around the world, and I’m suffering from really strong jetlag. This is easily something I could complain about, and let it become a huge problem. And sure, it is a problem … but it’s also a great practice opportunity.

Here’s how I’ve been practicing (and please note that this is only one way to practice):

I notice the tiredness, the stress about not sleeping well, the feeling of not wanting to do all the work that’s piled up, the wanting to shut down to everything. I mindfully drop …

Paying Attention to Your Teeth Could Help Prevent Disease

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2018/healthy-teeth-prevent-disease.html

Spending more time brushing and flossing may help prevent diabetes, cancer and heart disease and could even improve your sex life….

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2018/healthy-teeth-prevent-disease.html

Spending more time brushing and flossing may help prevent diabetes, cancer and heart disease and could even improve your sex life….

How Social Media Is Helping Me Cope with Grief

Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/C4WSICGDpqY/

“Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.” ~Thomas Horn

We had just landed in Chicago. I had spent the last three hours on a flight from New Jersey sitting next to grown-ups who didn’t ask me fifty questions every two minutes, while my kids watched a movie with their dad, two rows behind.

I was looking forward to spending one whole week in Chicago, despite the freezing temps. This was my first real break in eight months, and boy, I had plans! Sleeping in, long baths, reading, and no laptop!

I switched my phone on as soon as we landed. There was a text from my sister in India that she’d sent a few hours ago. My mom had been in the hospital for two weeks now with a serious lung infection.

That morning her doctor had given us hope that she was getting better. This was good news, and I was relieved. I tried to call my mom and then my dad, but none of them answered.

I thought, I’ll try her again when we check in our hotel. I sent her a text, telling her the same along with a video of my two-and-a-half year old son running around the airport. These videos were her life.

We were in the back of a Black Sedan, on our way to the hotel, when my phone rang. It was my dad. He was crying. I couldn’t even unde…

Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/C4WSICGDpqY/

“Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.” ~Thomas Horn

We had just landed in Chicago. I had spent the last three hours on a flight from New Jersey sitting next to grown-ups who didn’t ask me fifty questions every two minutes, while my kids watched a movie with their dad, two rows behind.

I was looking forward to spending one whole week in Chicago, despite the freezing temps. This was my first real break in eight months, and boy, I had plans! Sleeping in, long baths, reading, and no laptop!

I switched my phone on as soon as we landed. There was a text from my sister in India that she’d sent a few hours ago. My mom had been in the hospital for two weeks now with a serious lung infection.

That morning her doctor had given us hope that she was getting better. This was good news, and I was relieved. I tried to call my mom and then my dad, but none of them answered.

I thought, I’ll try her again when we check in our hotel. I sent her a text, telling her the same along with a video of my two-and-a-half year old son running around the airport. These videos were her life.

We were in the back of a Black Sedan, on our way to the hotel, when my phone rang. It was my dad. He was crying. I couldn’t even unde…

Drop in Premiums for Medicare Advantage Expected in 2019

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-2018/medicare-advantage-premiums-to-drop.html

The average monthly premium for Medicare Advantage plans is expected to dip by about 6%, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)….

Source: https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-2018/medicare-advantage-premiums-to-drop.html

The average monthly premium for Medicare Advantage plans is expected to dip by about 6%, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)….

The Truth About Acai Bowls: Read this first!

Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/the-truth-about-superfood-acai-bowls-and-acai-berries-read-this-first/

These days, Acai bowls are the hottest thing on the streets.

It’s been called “the healthiest breakfast on the planet” by some news outlets.

The hype machine is operating at full capacity for this South American berry. It’s a superfood that will help you lose weight, extend your lifespan, and help defend your body against aging!

Are these claims true?

Clearly the people marketing acai berries and bowls don’t care – as long as they can hype the crap out of it, there’s money to be made.

Hell, I walked down the street the other day and saw a place named “Acai Ya Later.”

If you’ve been reading Nerd Fitness for a while, it’s no secret I’m a fan of a well done pun, even if they need to mispronounce “acai” to make it work.

Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of bogus health claims, even if there are puns involved!

So today I’m gonna dig into the facts about acai berries, acai bowls, and eternal life from fruit.

No hype.

No acai supplement to sell you. No “superfood” claims.

Just the truth. And funny gifs. Always gifs.

What is an acai berry?

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Source https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/the-truth-about-superfood-acai-bowls-and-acai-berries-read-this-first/

These days, Acai bowls are the hottest thing on the streets.

It’s been called “the healthiest breakfast on the planet” by some news outlets.

The hype machine is operating at full capacity for this South American berry. It’s a superfood that will help you lose weight, extend your lifespan, and help defend your body against aging!

Are these claims true?

Clearly the people marketing acai berries and bowls don’t care – as long as they can hype the crap out of it, there’s money to be made.

Hell, I walked down the street the other day and saw a place named “Acai Ya Later.”

If you’ve been reading Nerd Fitness for a while, it’s no secret I’m a fan of a well done pun, even if they need to mispronounce “acai” to make it work.

Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of bogus health claims, even if there are puns involved!

So today I’m gonna dig into the facts about acai berries, acai bowls, and eternal life from fruit.

No hype.

No acai supplement to sell you. No “superfood” claims.

Just the truth. And funny gifs. Always gifs.

What is an acai berry?

<img class="size-large w…

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