This video, titled "Health Rules," discusses how modern lifestyles break health rules, especially regarding food choices and sugar consumption. The speaker, Deb Ford, explains how excess sugar leads to inflammation, insulin resistance, obesity, and diseases like fatty liver disease, heart problems, weakened immunity, and even cancer. She encourages listeners to make better food choices, reduce sugar intake, and prioritize their health to live longer and better.
Key Takeaways
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Excess weight causes cellular inflammation, which can damage joints and other parts of the body silently.
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Modern lifestyles often break biological health rules, leading to more sickness in America compared to other countries.
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Processed foods and added sugars, popularized by characters like Betty Crocker, have led to Americans consuming a huge amount of refined sugar annually.
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Sugar is addictive and its chronic daily intake, not occasional consumption, causes significant health problems that may not manifest immediately.
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Insulin resistance, caused by years of overconsumption of sugar, is a major contributor to many diseases including type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and infertility.
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Sugar contributes to obesity, especially around the abdominal area, increasing the risk of life-threatening diseases.
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The fructose component of sugar is primarily metabolized by the liver, and excessive intake can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, similar in damage to alcohol's effect on the liver.
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Sugar consumption also negatively impacts cardiovascular health by raising LDL cholesterol and weakens the immune system, making white blood cells less effective.
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Cancer cells love sugar, a fact discovered by Otto Warburg, and this is used in cancer diagnoses and even some treatments aim to starve cancer cells by blocking sugar.
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Eating sugar releases dopamine, creating a pleasure response, but continued consumption can desensitize dopamine receptors, requiring more sugar to achieve the same effect.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is hot in the news what's
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new in research or anything that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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Life One Step at a Time Foundation of
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Health excess weight you know it's it's
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bad there's nothing good about it it
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causes cellular inflammation that leads
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to nothing good whether it's noisy
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inflammation that damages joints your
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hips your knees your back or silent
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inflammation that damages everything
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else uh you know it's it's what I do I
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love learning about and teaching how to
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keep our bodies healthy life goes by
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fast enough without having it cut short
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by an illness that could have been
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prevented if you just knew how and did
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it I think the more information you have
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the better choices you're going to make
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and with better choices you're going to
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get better results like Health Vitality
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longevity yeah I've been doing this for
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48 and A2 years my life and career is
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all about what it takes to have health
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vitality and Longevity there's just
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certain rules that are bi ology has to
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obey or else you know things that I
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write about in my book get out of
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hormone hell and that ended up on the
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Amazon bestseller internationally in
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nine categories so it hit home modern
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lifestyles are just breaking a lot of
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rules we have to learn how to integrate
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healthy things back into our life so we
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have a chance for health vitality and
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longevity in America we are spend
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spending more money by far on health
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care or rather sick care than any other
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country we are among the sickest I think
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the stats I read last that you know we
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rank 35th probably worse now it's just
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so wrong and of course one of the rules
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of good health is good food we've gotten
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so far away from what really good food
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is I mean starting with Betty Crocker
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you know seems
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pretty vague I mean who Betty Crocker
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what's the matter with her well do you
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know that she was simply a character
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created to sell more processed food more
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mixes just have to add two eggs some
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water and some processed oil in there
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that's what they wanted you know they
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just want you to buy all this not
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knowing that real food is what we need
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sugar start getting really a strong
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foothold with the processed food so
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today even though it's Easter I think
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it's a really good day to talk about
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renewal renewal of our health by
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renewing food choices the whole subject
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of sugar in the health industry you know
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you get confusing comments some things
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you may hear is it's okay in
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moderation your body isn't designed to
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digest sugar sugar-free products are
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always healthy artificial sweeteners are
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really worse for you than sugar and this
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one I love you need sugar it's what your
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body uses for energy another one sugar
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is addictive like a drug what do you
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believe you know what what is the truth
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in all of that all of these common
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claims you they oppose each other but
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one thing for sure is we're consuming
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more sugar in our diet
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than we ever have before by far average
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American somewhere between 150 and 170
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lbs of refined sugar every year I don't
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get very much so somebody's getting my
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half so you probably think that can't be
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right 150 to 170 lbs of sugar that's a
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lot of sugar but yeah now that only
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translates to about A4 to a half a pound
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or 30 to 60
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teaspoons every day and I I challenge
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you to count how many grams of sugar
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you're getting in every day you know
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it's hard to believe you can possibly
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take that much in but you're consuming
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it everywhere in your coffee cookies you
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know bars but even natural sugar like
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honey in your smoothies then there's ice
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cream there's baked goods everything
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Baked has
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sugar sometimes you can expect it but a
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lot lot of times it's hidden in the
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majority of the foods that you eat
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regularly even ketchup when you start
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reading labels you're going to be
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shocked at how much sugar is added in
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Europe same product same company will
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sell totally different products you know
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Starbucks and MC and McDonald's to name
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a few check it out really awful when you
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think how much we are being fed and the
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reason they do that it's a great book
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it's called fat sugar salt it just shows
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how
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addicting they are okay sugar it's in
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all the food we eat but why should we
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care it's not like everybody's getting
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sick well at least not immediately but I
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have to say sugar like a lot of things
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bad it's Insidious you know it starts
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just a
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little it's The Chronic daily intake
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that causes problem it's not the thing
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that you have once in a while at a party
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it's the day in and day out you know and
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the thing is it doesn't manifest
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immediately body's pretty resilient
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tries to keep everything in balance as
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long as it can you know it's not like
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you eat something and you immediately
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feel sick in fact it's usually the
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opposite you eat it and your brain goes
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yeah give me more that was really good I
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feel
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wonderful and that's where some of the
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problems are linked to Sugar it's
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addictive even mental illness and
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behavioral problems are attributed to
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Things That Go Way Beyond you know
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something as simple as diet can't
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contribute to behavioral problems right
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how about allergies arthritis migraines
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you know they are attributed to vag
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things like our environment stress
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levels maybe some medications but other
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problems immune degenerative problems
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diabetes cancer they take a long time to
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develop and even diagnose some people
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some
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doctors aren't grabbing their food
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journals at this point to search for the
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connection you know they're just like
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this is an emergency we got to like get
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this under control quickly but there's
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more and more research being conducted
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on the effects of sugar on human health
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day by day in the thousands of research
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articles there is not one that finds
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sugar builds Health more and more
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finding its tightly linked to the
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development of disease let me tell you
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it's not looking good for the sugars
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case sugar insulin insulin resistance
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become a really hot topic I talk about
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it all the time every medical journal
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seems to be publishing about it how it
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is related to an increased risk of
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chronic
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disease insulin one of the most
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important hormones in the body linked
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directly to glucose getting into our
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cells and I like to think of insulin as
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the key that unlocks the cell so it can
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get energy into the cell so the body can
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do the work it's designed to
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do but with years of overc consumption
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of sugar that leads to what we call
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insulin
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resistance the cells basically get tired
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of so much sugar knocking at the cell
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wall door they stop listening and then
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the pancreas just gets Plum tired of
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being able to keep up with demand so
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insulin
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resistance High insulin over time leads
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to insulin resistance you know it's kind
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of like a bad marriage you know they
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just stop listening to each other so
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each one starts talking louder and
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louder trying to be heard so okay and
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I've covered this over and over again
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but insulin resistance is thought to be
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the biggest contributor to many many
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diseases huge player type 2 diabetes
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obesity metabolic syndrome everything
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cardiovascular disease dementia blood
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pressure gallbladder disease menopausal
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symptoms and it's even the leading cause
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of infertility polycystic ovarian
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syndrome my specialty PCOS and weight
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loss what's crazy what's not addressed
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even if blood sugar is
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controlled these risks these conditions
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persist your blood sugar may be fine but
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if you've got insulin resistance you've
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got to address that root cause problem
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diet and
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lifestyle and a obesity it's no secret
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obesity is the biggest thing we deal
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with one out of three children two out
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of three adults are either overweight or
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obese it's gotten much worse than that
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that was before covid when we were all
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told to stay home and we did and we ate
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and we ate and we ate all that comfort
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food felt worse and worse and worse
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anxiety obesity fatty liver disease
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cardio vascular disease gut disease oh
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God so much worse sugar doesn't just add
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empty calories instead it affects all
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the hormones responsible for satiety you
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know everybody's taking those glp1
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shots not knowing you can do that with
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food trying to satisfy hunger you know
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the more sugar you eat the more you want
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and I'm sure you can see the problem
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here knowing this that 60% % increased
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risk of obesity in children for every
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serving of sugar sweetened beverages you
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know it's important to note that weight
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gain from sugar is often seen around the
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abdominal area you notice the waistline
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spreading your belt getting on the
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bigger Notch it's probably the sugar
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gaining weight around the middle that's
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visceral fat toxic fats what they call
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it that's where all your important
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organs are so that visceral fat breeds a
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higher risk profile for many
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life-threatening
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diseases
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sugar yeah you know how does it become
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so dangerous first I think you need to
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know where sugar how it's made you know
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it comes from either sugar beets or
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sugar cane almost all GMO by the way but
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that breaks down into about 50/50
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glucose and free fructose glucose
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important energy source for the for the
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cells easy to maintain our body produces
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it easily One Way by breaking down fat
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stores simple as that you always have
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plenty on hand no need to consume
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extra but the other 50% fructose is
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different our bodies don't produce much
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of it and quite frankly there's no
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proven physiological need for fructose
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in fact it can be disastrous in constant
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consumption so that 50% of the table
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sugar that breaks down to fructose has
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to be me metabolized by the liver but
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only in teeny tiny amounts at a time
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liver has a very limited storage for
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sugar you know you just need a little
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bit to like kickart in case you need a
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lot in a short period of time so there's
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if there's already enough sugar stored
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in the liver what's going to happen to
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it the liver stores it because it's
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getting overloaded so it's just being
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forced to store that extra as fat so
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that is what is called non-alcoholic
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fatty liver disease no cure in medicine
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the cure for non-alcoholic and they call
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it something else now but it's basically
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fatty liver caused from sugar reversal
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is like diet and lifestyle no Drug's
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going to heal it in fact to take that
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further studies suggest that that sugar
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is just as damaging as alcohol is to the
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liver even if you're at a healthy
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weight wow so alcoholic or non-alcoholic
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fatty liver disease does the same damage
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no alcohol involved but the fat causes
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the same scarring as alcohol does and
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what about the heart so many
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misconceptions about what causes
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cardiovascular disease cholesterol what
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foods help or harm heart health things
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have just been cleared up you know sugar
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is top of the list Studies have shown
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that consuming a large amount of
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fructose also causes a rise in LDL
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cholesterol the ly kind the low density
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also blood sugar insulin levels
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abdominal deity you you know as in as
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little as 10 weeks but it also can be
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reversed in just about that amount of
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time so you know now sugar and Immunity
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most poignant topic now you know postco
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pandemic immune system is responsible
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defending your body against illness L
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Menda University just 100 grams of sugar
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can make your white blood cell counts
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40% less effective as killing germs
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topof the line so if you have sugar or
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honey in your
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oatmeal for breakfast a pop at lunch or
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a fruit smoothie and a granola bar for a
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snack you know and AER dessert at dinner
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your whole day is going around with
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depressed
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immunity you know I don't know about you
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but in this day and age I want to keep
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my immune system tiptop to keep any
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virus at Bay and then the word that
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terrifies everybody
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cancer it is related through insulin one
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way you know one of the main hormones
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responsible for regulating the growth of
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these cells you know and you go back to
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OT warberg a kind of a friend a
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colleague of Einstein fellow scientist
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biochemistry he was the first to
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determine that cancer loves sugar and
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that cancer has an alternative pathway
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you know in fact one of the common
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cancer diagnosis the Pet Scan actually
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injects radioactive sugar into the body
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and watch where it goes it is taken up
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quickly by tumors tumors love sugar some
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treatments for sugar are actually or for
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cancer are actually blocking sugar to
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starve out the cancer cells okay so
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there's just a lot you know you've got
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sugar and diabetes sugar and depression
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sugar and mood oh my gosh dopamine is a
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neurotransmitter that is you know given
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for the reward and pleasure centers when
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you eat a lot of sugar you get a massive
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release of dopamine and as you continue
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to consume sugar those dopamine
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receptors kind of turn off become less
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powerful so you need more and more to
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get that same pleasure response you know
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more and more I've got tons of
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information on it but you know I know
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this may have been a little overwhelming
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that's okay I think knowledge gives you
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better better choices better choices
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give you better results just keep
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working on it don't give up your health
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is really all you have it's a great
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hobby you know worth doing something to
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help you keep it changing your habits
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you know just it can be done I'm a
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recovered sugarholic you know I know
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what life would have been if I hadn't
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overcome it oh boy not good so I know
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it's Easter but I encourage you to put
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down that Easter candy say no to dessert
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swap it out for maybe one of those
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boiled and naturally dyed Easter eggs
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you know you get the protein for your
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muscles you'll get the chine for your
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brain oh so good for you no downside I
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promise you you keep it up and you're
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going to feel better thanks for
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listening to another edition of today's
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nutrition I hope you learn something
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that will help you or someone you love
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as always you can live listen to other
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shows on my website Deb for.com YouTube
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or any place you listen to podcasts it's
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all about health feeling great and
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living longer better have a great day
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and take good care of yourself and your
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loved ones
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Health Rules
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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May 8, 2024
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