Joan’s Boomer Blog

My husband and I are embracing the raw food diet - not all the way, mind you. We still like our barbecue and

Raw food recipe for powerball snack

steamed veggies. However, we’ve started drinking Green Smoothies - the ultimate raw food - and I’m making more raw food snacks and large salads.

The raw food diet is just that. You don’t eat anything cooked as it destroys valuable digestive enzymes and nutrients. I have a raw food cookbook and the only cooking you do involves a dehydrator set to no higher than 115 degrees. If you’re in your baby boomer years, your body isn’t assimilating nutrients like it once did so you need all the digestive enzymes you can get. You’ll feel healthier and many of your health issues will disappear.

Green Smoothies are easy to incorporate into your diet. You simply make a tasty smoothie in the morning and drink 1-2 quarts of it during each day. Add any fresh, raw veggies you have and some fruit.

I’ve also discovered raw food recipes for snacks. These are super easy snack recipes because you mix up ingredients but don’t have to cook them. Here is one raw food snack recipe I created yesterday. Compare them to any expensive energy bar and I think you’ll like these much better.

These raw food power balls are full of energy creating superfoods so they are great to eat between meals or after a workout:

Raw Food Power Ball Snack Recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup sliced raw almonds (you can substitute any other raw nuts if you prefer)
1/8 cup flax seeds
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4cup coconut shredded
1 cup mixed dried fruit (I found a great antioxidant mix at Costco with dried cherries, cranberries and blueberries)
1/2 cup raw honey
1 cup raw peanut butter (you can also use other raw nut butters)
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

Using a food processor or Vitamix, blend the first 4 dry ingredients to a meal stage. Don’t make a fine powder out of it, just chop for about 20 seconds.

Put dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and add dried fruit, cinnamon, peanut or other raw nut butter, and honey. Mix thoroughly.

Once your raw food ingredients are mixed, form into balls of about 1 1/2 inches and put into a glass container with a tight fitting lid. I put tin foil between my rows so they don’t stick together.

Refrigerate for 24 hours and enjoy.

These raw food powerballs will keep in the frig for 2 weeks - if they last that long! I send them to work with my husband for his lunch and snack on them after my yoga class.

This recipe makes about 30 raw food power balls.

The great thing about this recipe is you can change up ingredients to suit yourself. They are a quick and easy snack that requires no baby sitting a hot oven for several hours.

If you’re interested in healthy aging, you should be eating more raw food recipes. Eating raw foods can help ward off eye diseases like cataracts and macular degeneration, cancer, heart disease, arthritis and more.

If you’d like to know more about Green Smoothies, click here for more info. Get free shipping on your Vitamix if you don’t own one already. I’ve found so many uses for my Vitamix I can’t imagine what I did without it.

More information on the raw food diet at Best of Raw Food.com

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he Healing Code by Dr. Alex Lloyd seems to be everywhere lately. Any book promising to help heal the source of any health, relationship or success issue was a book I had to read. The

The Healing Code is a new book by Dr. Lloyd and Dr. Ben Johnson which presents their astonishingly effective 6 minute healing code process which, according to those who use it daily, is nothing short of miraculous.

As I near age 60, every trip to the doctor seems to bring hints of health issues to come. I’ve had a strange tingling sensation throughout my body for the past 3 years which no medical person has been able to help me with. I am literally never sick, but recently contracted a severe case of bronchitis. A chest xray showed “chronic bronchitis” and thinning of the bones. Joy, Joy!

I currently take no medications of any sort. The nurse at the clinic I go to said I was her first patient who, at may age, didn’t have a bagful of pills. I can see though, that in future, medical doctors are going to do their best to convince me I need drugs to survive.

The Healing Code by Alex Lloyd fits into the alternative medicine category and offers a totally unique system of healing code points that have never been used before now. It’s different acupuncture, EFT, or other methods you may have tried.

How does this healing code process work? Using it eliminates the negative emotions and thoughts that are holding you back from success, health, or whatever you want in life. Once you eliminate these negatives, you body can heal, you are free live a creative, abundant life. And you don’t even have to know exactly what these issues are for the system to work.

The process can also help with many issues. It can help you achieve goals you have, find success and fulfillment in many areas of your life.  Doing this simple 6 minute healing code process daily is a powerful technique to build your immune system, help you with any health or relationship issue, eliminate stress, or become more successful and abundant.

One thing I really appreciated about The Healing Code is that once you purchase your copy on Amazon, you can register it on The Healing Code Book website. Once you’ve done this, you receive free gifts and a detailed test which will personalize the healing code process for you and help you define what you should work on with the practice. There is also an informative newsletter that goes along with the registration if you want one.

The Healing Code also offers extensive information on:

The Seven Secrets of Life, Health, Prosperity

A Ten second technique to eliminate daily stress

The heart Issues Finder, that personalized test I mentioned which helps you identify your own source issues.

The Healing Code by Dr. Alex Lloyd and Dr. Ben Johnson is something new and different to help you heal the issues in your life, whether they are to do with health, money, relationships or any issue that is holding you back from being all you can be in your life. I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Whatever issues you have in your life, you owe it to yourself to try this simple process.

Order your own copy today from Amazon and see what The Healing Codes can do for you.

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Joan’s Boomer Blog - Joining the Green Smoothie Revolution

Recently my husband and I joined the Green Smoothie Revolution and I wanted to blog about how Green Smoothies can help baby boomers. Many people I’ve met who are passionate about Green Smoothies are young mothers who want to improve their family’s nutrition. Boomers and seniors like me are concerned with healthy aging - maintaining optimal health as we get older. We are experiencing health issues such as arthritis, high cholesterol and maybe diabetes.Maybe we don’t maintain our weight as easily as we used to.

As we age, our bodies don’t take in and use nutrients this they did, leaving us vulnerable to a lowered immune system and results of aging. Can green smoothies help us aging boomers get more out of life?

Why Drink Green Smoothies?

What is your normal daily diet? Do you eat processed foods (foods that come in a package and are full of unpronounceable ingredients?) Do you eat lots of cooked foods, with maybe a small salad for dinner to get your “greens?” Do you have health issues?

Believe me, the health issues are intimately tied to you daily diet. Green smoothies can offer whole, raw veggies like broccoli, kale, Swiss Chard, and mustard greens. You can even throw beet and carrot greens in to your green smoothie recipe so you waste less food. AND these foods are uncooked which is important because cooking often destroys many of the nutrients in our veggies.

Since the foods are blended, the super nutrition is more readily available to your body to increase energy, boost your immune system, help you lose weight and be healthier. Green Smoothies are quick and convenient too, once you get your foods and a powerful blender. They keep for up to 48 hours in the frig so you can make them ahead of time.

Since I decided to start making Green Smoothies for my husband and me, I wanted to blog about the experience, offering recipes and tips to get you started and to let you know what Green Smoothies can do for healthy aging.

Many of my friends already are green smoothie converts. They’ve told me they experience:

• more energy
• improved digestion, including more regular bowel movements and soft stools
• fewer cravings for sugar and processed foods
• improved, more stable moods
• weight loss - an average of over 17lbs!
• increased desire to exercise (couldn’t we all use that!)

Others report less pain from arthritis, improved sex drive, less stress, shinier hair, stronger fingernails and smoother, clearer skin tone. All this after only 30 days on green smoothies!

How Much Green Smoothie Do You Need to Drink?

Optimum consumption is about one quart a day, four or more days per week but you can start with less.

Green smoothies are a lifestyle change. I’m going to start growing sprouts, making kefir, growing spinach and making lots of dietary changes. Check back in coming days to see how the green smoothie revolution is working out for this baby boomer.

Once I decided to embark on the Green Smoothie lifestyle, my next step was to research blenders. Green smoothies do require more power than your average smoothie blender. I look at all of them, read reports and asked friends who are already making green smoothies. Find out tomorrow which blender met the challenge.

More Green Smoothie Information and Recipes

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Add These AntiAging Foods to Your Daily Diet

As much as 90% of how well we age is related to lifestyle choices that we make every day. An AntiAging Diet can keep our minds and bodies functioning at peak capacity well into our senior years. Antiaging foods keep our muscles, joints and bones in good repair so we suffer less from arthritis and lack of balance. Antiaging foods keep our memory sharp and help ward off diseases like cancer and heart disease, which can be debilitating, if they don’t kill us, that is.

Here are some antiaging foods that you can add to your daily diet. You’ll notice the difference in the way you feel very quickly.

1.  Water - Sounds strange doesn’t it? That water is an important antiaging diet ingredient? Water keeps toxins and cancer causing waste materials flushed from your body. Joints which are well hydrated function better too. Drink 6-8 glasses of water daily.

2.  Nuts - Nuts contain heart healthy omega3 fatty acids, protein and fiber. It doesn’t take many nuts either. Sprinkle walnuts or sliced almonds on your salad or cereal daily. Contrary to popular opinion, even thought nuts have fat, it is a source of good fats that actually help our heart and cholesterol levels.

3.  Ginger - Ginger is a great anti-inflammatory food and inflammation is believed to be the cause of many illnesses and diseases people get as they age, such as arthritis and heart disease. Ginger is good for the digestion and is a good cure for indigestion. It works better than taking antacids and other medications.

4.  Garlic - Garlic helps lower cholesterol and is also an anti-viral, anti-bacterial food. Eat fresh, crushed garlic when possible. If you’re coming down with a cold, crush some garlic, let it set a few minutes and then mix it with butter and put on toast. Don’t heat the garlic. This is my go-to remedy for colds and sore throats and it works every time.

5.  Cruciferous Vegetables are among the best anti-aging foods around. Brocolli, turnips, cauliflower, and cabbage also are anti-cancer foods. Slice up a few turnips into soup or sprinkle chopped cabbage into your salad or steamed veggies.

6.  Berries - Blueberries top the list of nutrient rich, antioxidant packed foods but all berries contain antioxidants. Keep bags of them in the freezer to use in cereal, smoothies or mix with yogurt as a dessert.

7.  Chia Seeds These seeds are so tiny that 1/4 teaspoon is considered a serving. Make Chia Gel for smoothies or sprinkle chia seeds into cereal, yogurt, stir fry or just about any food.

8.  Green Tea - contains lots of anti-cancer and anti-aging ingredients. Drink 4-5 cups per day. If you aren’t fond of green tea, try some flavors mixed with fruit. Black tea is a good substitute. It doesn’t have all the antiaging properties of green tea but it does contain lots of antioxidants. Add a slice of lemon as this boosts the power of green tea by about 20%.

If you’re on an anti-aging diet, skip the sugar and processed foods. Sugar causes many of the illnesses and diseases that go along with aging and processed foods contain chemicals which can cause cancer, obesity and other health issues.

Read more about anti-aging foods you can easily add to your daily diet.

Read More about Being Healthier with Superfoods

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Proper Golf Attire Shows Respect for the Game

Golf is fun and it’s also a terrific form of exercise. If you play golf, you know that part of golf etiquette is showing up in appropriate golf clothes. Many private golf clubs even require a certain dress code, which includes golf attire. Here are some tips on choosing what to wear to the golf course.

Proper golf clothing includes shorts but they must be especially designed for golf. Don’t wear denim, cut-offs or gym shorts to play and they should be cut just above the knee. Ladies may wear a women’s golf skort to play, as well as short or long pants.

Golf pants and shorts both should have cuffs to fill with dirt and a leather belt should be worn, so you need belt loops on golf attire.

Be sure to wear matching colors when playing golf, a pair of classical neutral shorts or pants in tan, black or brown is a good choice. Only on cartoons will you see clashing plaids worn to swing a golf club.

Special golf shoes are made just to play golf. No tennis shoes or sandals should be worn, and most golf clubs require soft spikes, not metal spikes, which tear up the golf course. You should always bring street shoes to change into once you are finished playing.

Be sure to match your socks to your golf pants or shorts too. Wear lightly colored socks if you choose golf shorts and if you wear long pants, the socks should match your golf pants.

Golf shirts, including ladies golf shirts, should have a collar.

Hats are appropriate on the golf course. Either baseball style or a straw golf hat can be worn. Hats are a good idea. They help keep the sun off your face, and may improve your vision. Either baseball style or straw golf hats are appropriate.

If the weather is cold, you can wear golf sweater, or men’s or ladies golf jackets.

Most important of all, proper golf attire shows respect for the game.

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Can Magnetic Therapy Relieve Your Chronic Pain?

Chronic Pain doesn’t have to be part of your senior years. Alternative remedies such as magnetic therapy, using magnetic bracelets, acupuncture, reiki and energy medicine offer hope for chronic pain sufferers.

Baby boomers who suffer chronic pain often just accept pain as part of their lives. They take pain medications that harm their livers - Pop a pill and feel a little better - However, that chronic pain from arthritis, back or hip problems, neuropathy, carpel tunnel or other forms of unrelieved pain are still present. You can try and relieve the symptoms but the underlying cause it still there.

How Does Magnetic Therapy Work?

Magnetic therapy has been around for about 4,000 years. Magnetic healing may work to relieve chronic pain by relaxing the capillary walls of the body, increasing the blood flow throughout your system, working much the same as massage therapy, which stimulates the areas around muscles, increasing blood flow and helping the body to heal itself.

In Magnetic therapy a magnetic bracelet or other jewelry is worn which may help increase blood flow and speed healing of chronic pain, getting to the cause of the pain, not just relieving the symptoms.

Where Can I Find Quality Magnetic Bracelets?

Amega Global offers quality magnetic bracelets, zero point energy wand, an energetic healing tool which can help the body heal from chronic pain - often in minutes), and other energy healing products.

The Magnetic Therapy Industry is a billion dollar business worldwide, with $300 million of that business in the United States If you are looking for a money making home business, we are building a team with Zero Point Energy Technology, just recently introduced in the West. Our products include zero point energy wands and pendants using Amized Fusion Energy. These energetic healing products can help unblock your energy pathways, providing chronic pain relief, often in minutes!

Zero Energy Magnetic bracelets

Zero Point Energy Technology also includes Bio-Energetic products such as magnetic bracelets.

If you would like to know more about Zero Point Energy Wands, pendants and magnetic bracelets, or to read about the demonstrations that are relieving chronic pain, contact me at boomerstreams@gmail.com for more information or read about these amazing energetic healing products here.

If you join our team, you can purchase your magnetic bracelets, energy wands and other products at whole sale prices.

If you’re a baby boomer looking for a home business that is growing by leaps and bounds, you might like Amega Global products. If you’re like me, you know many boomers who suffer from chronic pain and after a demonstration with these amazing products, everyone you know will be clamoring for a magnetic bracelet or energy wand.

Life is too short to live with chronic pain. With magnetic therapy, you can increase your quality of life - no matter how long you live. I’ve seen amazing results in seniors over 80 years old, as well as those in their 40’s and 50’s.

If you live in chronic pain and don’t want to take pain medications daily, check out magnetic therapy and energy healing. You’ll be glad you did.

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Where to buy Chia Seeds

The health benefits of adding chia seeds to your diet are astounding. Chia seeds are the new superfood and a very important ingredient to your daily regimen if you are interested in healthy aging. Are you looking for quality chia seeds to use in your chia seed recipes and gel? You probably won’t find them at your local grocery store but you can now visit our new Chia Seed Store on Amazon.com

For our Chia Seed Store, I’ve chosen the best brands of chia seed, books on chia seeds and their benefits and even some of the ever-popular chia pets and chia sprouting gardens.

Health Benefits of Chia Seeds in your Daily Diet

Among the benefits of chia seeds are their high content of omega3 fatty acids, which are beneficial in protecting us from high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, arthritis and more.

You can buy a pound of chia seed for about $12 and it takes only a couple teaspoons to make 8oz of chia gel. All you need is about 1/4 tsp sprinkled on yogurt, cereal or other foods to get the superfood nutrition.

Read more about the health benefits of chia seeds or pick up a book on chia seeds at Amazon.com. Many of the chia seed products in our store quality for free shipping if you purchase $25 or more on your Amazon order. I have a wish list of Amazon products so if I need something else to bring me up to the free shipping level, I go to my wish list and add something.

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Healthy Drinks - Delicious Tea Recipes

The Health Benefits of Green Tea are very well known, but you can also get health benefits from Black tea as well. (Read more about the health benefits of Green Tea here.) For baby boomers interested in health, drinking as little as 3-4 cups of tea daily can reduce the risk of strokes, boost metabolism, help protect you from cancer and much more.

The benefits of green tea include healthy aging, especially if you replace more sugary drinks like soda, with tea.

Some people don’t care much for the taste of green tea so in these recipes, you can substitute black tea also. However, give green tea a try. With these delicious additions to your cup of hot tea or iced tea, you won’t even notice it’s good for you too!

Ginger Orange Tea

Ginger is a great antioxidant, metabolism booster and stomach soother. It’s also great for colds. The tart taste of orange makes this a delightful summer drink recipe.

Ingredients

2 quarts of water

3 one inch pieces of fresh ginger root, sliced thin

1 Tbs honey

1 orange, sliced

Directions for Tea

Put water and ginger root into a medium sized sauce pan. Bring water to a boil, then turn to simmer for 30 minutes. Allow to stand and cool for another 30 minutes.

Add honey and orange one hour before serving.

Strain and serve over ice. You can also reheat and serve hot.

Mint Tea Recipe

Mint is energizing and refreshing and sprigs of fresh mint can be added to any tea you have sitting in the frig. To make mint tea, try this slow cooker recipe.

Ingredients

2 quarts hot water

honey or stevia to taste

8 tea bags (green or black)

2 drops mint extract

Directions

Put water and sweetener into crock pot. Add tea bags and mint extract and cook on low for 2 hours.

Makes 8 servings and can be served hot or over ice.

You can create variations of the above tea by adding other ingredients:

1 tsp almond extract or other flavor of extract you might prefer

2/3 cup lemon juice

1 orange sliced

1 cup cranberry or other fruit juice

1/2 tsp cinnamon (good for lowering cholesterol!)

Other tasty tea recipes, which would make deliciously refreshing drinks for your next get-together

Discover Cooking with Green Tea for added health benefits and great taste too.

50 Hot and Cold Tea Recipes in Green Tea: 50 Hot Drinks, Cool Quenchers, and Sweet and Savory Treats

Read what Dr. Mercola has to say about the many benefits of drinking green tea.

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Boost Your Metabolism with these Easy Tips

As we get older, our metabolism slows, which is one reason we gain weight as we age. You can speed up your metabolism, however, by following some simple tips.

Our metabolism is the rate at which our bodies burn calories and a slower metabolism means that weight creeps up on us as we age. Weight gain as we age leaves us vulnerable to supposed “old age” diseases like heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis and more. Speeding up our metabolism is the key to keeping our weight down.

So how can you speed up your metabolism?

Hate to say it but exercise, of course, is the number one way to speed up metabolism. Not only does your metabolism speed up during exercise but for several hours after a cardio workout - so you get double the increase in your fat burning if you exercise. Plus, muscle burn more calories than fat so having more lean muscle increases metabolism too.

Drink water - a well hydrated body runs more smoothly and burns calories for efficiently.

Drink more green tea. Green tea not only offers health benefits but also increases metabolism.

Try Deep Breathing - Deep Breathing is one very easy way to boost metabolism. Read Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How To Lose Weight By Changing The Way You Breathe for some easy tips on deep breathing. Most of us only breath shallowly, not using all of our lung capacity. Deep breathing not only helps boost metabolism but increases energy and good health and relieves stress.

Add these metabolism boosting spices to your daily diet.

Spices like cayenne, ginger, turmeric and cinnamon all boost metabolism. Adding them to your daily diet also helps protect your body from diseases like cancer. Turmeric is also good for inflammation leading to arthritis, ginger is good for nausea and indigestion and cinnamon helps lower cholesterol and regulate blood sugar. So far as is known, there are no adverse effects to adding these spices to your diet either.

Other Recommended Reading on boosting your metabolism:

Read more about superfoods which help boost metabolism.

Read Ultrametabolism: A Simple Plan for Automatic Weightloss by Dr. Mark Hyman

UltraMetabolism Recipes - 200 Recipes to boost metabolism

WebMd - Make the Most of Your Metabolism

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March is DVT Awareness Month - Watch this Free Video on How You Can Prevent DVT

March is DVT Awareness Month and this year the program’s focus is on prevention of deep vein thrombosis. DVT happens when blood clots form in the deep veins of the body, usually in the lower extremities. DVT is caused when the muscles of the leg are inactive, which allows blood to collect and clot. These clots can travel to the heart and lungs and become life threatening.

Learn more about how you can prevent DVT

Increasing blood circulation in the extremities is the key to prevention and working with Mary Ann Wilson, RN, founder and host of PBS program “Sit and Be Fit,” the Coalition to Prevent DVT has developed a free educational video featuring simple, low impact movements to increase blood circulation. You can find the free video at Prevent DVT.org

We all know being active is important, especially as we age, but even in going about our daily tasks, like sitting at a desk, taking a trip on an airplane or during a family vacation can pose risks for getting DVT.  Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month gives everyone a chance to put DVT Awareness in Motion.

This year’s program goes beyond building traditional awareness of the signs and symptoms of DVT and emphasizes the importance of preventative care in everyday settings such as:

• Office sitting
• Lying in bed, whether in the hospital or at home
• Assisted Living or Rehabilitation Facilities
• During Travel

The video also features stories from those touched personally by DVT. One of the stories comes from Coalition to Prevent DVT National Spokesperson, Melanie Bloom.  Bloom shares her story about learning the news of the loss of her husband, NBC News correspondent David Bloom from complications of DVT while covering the war in Iraq.  Watch this special public service announcement from Melanie here.

DVT is preventable and it is treatable.Take the opportunity of DVT Awareness Month to get out and tell your friends about this condition and the free video. You just might save a life.

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