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Korean Pancake Recipe - Bin Dae Duk

Ingredients:

2 cups of mung beans, usually labeled as "peeled split mung beans."
6 tablespoons calrose rice
Water
2 zucchini
1 red bell pepper
3 spring/green onions
1 yellow onion
Handful of sesame leaves or cilantro
Sea salt
Cooking oil
Soy sauce and sesame oil (optional for dipping sauce)

Directions: Read more

 

Dark Chocolate, Almond Butter and Raspberry Cups Recipe

Listed ingredients will make about 5 large dark chocolate cups, assuming you use regular muffin/cupcake liners.

Ingredients:

200 grams (about 7 ounces) of dark chocolate chunks/chips
3 tablespoons of smooth almond butter
2 tablespoons of almond milk
Your favourite raspberry jam
Small handful of fresh raspberries
Sea salt
A few tablespoons of icing sugar (optional)

Directions: Read more

 

Crispy Potatoes with Guacamole

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I've been on a roll with new recipes as of late - everything I make, the living creatures in our home gobble every morsel up within an hour. This makes me happy, of course. Read more

 

Crispy Potatoes with Guacamole Recipe

Ingredients:

3 large handfuls of baby potatoes
2 avocados
1 or 2 ribs of green onions, finely sliced
5 garlic cloves, minced
1 lime
Sea salt
Pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Read more

 

How to Work on Your Mobility While Standing

This is a video for those who have requested a simple routine of mobility exercises while remaining upright.

In this video, I use a dowel at times to help maintain balance. You can use a broomstick, golf club, or any other similar object, or you can try doing everything without support, which will help you develop your balance and proprioception. Read more

 

Exercises for a Stiff Spine

As mentioned in this video, many of us can use more extension through the spine. A sedentary lifestyle often leads to shoulders that are rounded forward to some degree, which puts the spine in some degree of forward flexion, which is what gradually robs intervertebral joints of their natural capacity to extend backward. Read more

 

How to Make Tasty Vegan Burgers

Simple Ways to Improve Balance and Proprioception

Meant for those with limited mobility or only a small space to work within, these simple exercises are highly effective in strengthening the sensory receptors, sensory fibers, and motor pathways needed to have good balance and proprioception. Read more

 

How to Move Better

Let me state unequivocally that I respect my profession and know countless chiropractors who provide exceptionally high quality care for their patients. Every such chiropractor I know spends time educating his or her patients on diet, exercise, and other determinants of overall quality of health. When a person experiences musculoskeletal discomfort, I think that it can be highly worthwhile to visit a chiropractor who is committed to providing this level of comprehensive care. Read more

 

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Cover by Eva Cassidy

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
And the dreams that you dreamed of
Dreams really do come true ooh oh Read more

 

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