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Make Better Decisions Through the Power of Muscle Testing

At some point during your day, you have decisions to make. From the minute you wake up you are likely making decisions. Many are done by rote, while others take considerable thought with lots in between. Decisions like what to wear for a key meeting, to what foods to add to tonight’s menu, to what route to take to work when we hear on the morning news that traffic is horrific on the regular route we take. Wouldn’t it be great to have a “super friend” who could do that for us? Actually, we do. It’s called muscle testing.

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Create Your Own Morning Ritual

It seems wherever you turn, people are talking about morning rituals. Whether it’s the Miracle Morning created by Hal Elrod, the 20/20/20 from Robin Sharma or the 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins, morning rituals are all the rage. I’m a proponent of a healthy morning ritual. One that I can easily implement by rising 30 – 60 minutes earlier than normal. One that I can share with my clients to help them have a more balanced life. Usually, morning rituals consist of movement, jou aling, meditating and often prayer. One client likes to add into hers the 30-Second Gut Flush I taught her.

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How to Eliminate Gas with a Diet Rich in Beans

More every day, people are eating more plant-based foods including diets filled with beans and legumes. Yet, some hesitate to continue past a few days due to the amount of gas they experience.

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The D Word (Diet) is Killing You

Everywhere you look, there’s a new diet. “The Latest and Greatest” is often associated with the newest craze. Yet, dieting in the sense of what most people associate the word with, is not at all what it was initially intended to be.

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You’re Not Just What You Eat… You’re Also What You Drink

Most people know they need to drink more water in the summer, but amazingly, they pull back in fall and winter. This could be wreaking havoc on their health. Regardless of the season, you need to drink a minimum amount of water to sustain good, let alone great health. The question of how much water to consume is one that is as confusing as what type of vitamins to take, what foods to eat for optimum health and how much sleep we need.

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The Shocking Truth About How Much Water You Really Need

Most people don’t consume enough water. This is evident by the number of people who complain about headaches, lack of energy, sleepiness mid-day, and other easily remedied conditions that proper hydration can address. Yet, most people grab a pill, energy bar or some type of caffeinated drink to give them a much needed boost. Amazingly, water could more than likely fix the problem. That’s not to say water will fix 100% of the health problems we deal with, but lack of water can create preventable health issues. How Much is Enough?

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Does Plant-Based Eating and The Food Codes Work Together?

Diets come and go. Trends do the same. What doesn’t come and go is healthy eating. Yet, with all the hype of the latest diet craze, one is left to wonder what is healthy. Enter The Food Codes™. The Food Codes is all about eating according to what your body requires. A Change to Plant-Based Eating Over the last decade, there has been quite a shift to plant-based eating. Many are choosing this way of eating because of their love of animals. Others choose plant-based eating strictly for health reasons. And still others, for both reasons.

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Intuitive Eating The Food Codes™ Way

The busier our lives get, the more likely we are subjected to stress. Although we like to think we have things under control, stress is managed in any number of ways with overindulgence of social media time, television binge watching and eating junk food as a few of the most popular. When you combine all three, the results can not only be very unhealthy, you are likely to pack on unwanted pounds. Healthy Pleasure is Just a Bite Away

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5 Simple Steps to Set Successful New Year's Resolutions

January is the month that countless men and women say, “This year will be different.” With all the sincerity they can muster, they go headlong into one, or more, resolutions. According to Forbes.com contributor, Ashira Prossack, “The statistics on how many people actually follow through and accomplish their New Year’s resolutions are rather grim. Studies have shown that less than 25% of people actually stay committed to their resolutions after just 30 days, and only 8% accomplish them.”

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Why Eating Mindfully is So Powerful

Have you ever eaten with someone who is slow and deliberate while eating? They savor every bite. They may even close their eyes in a form of quiet reflection while eating. Chances are they are doing what is called “mindful eating.” Simply put, mindful eating is consciously paying attention to every bite that goes into your mouth. Instead of eating mindlessly, stuffing bite after bite food into your mouth in a robotic way, you notice every flavor, texture and sensation from your meal.

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Muscle Test Your Way to Conscious Eating

With all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, stress is likely to be at an all-time high. Traffic, spending, eating and nerves are at an all time high, causing us to eat mindlessly. This is the time of year there is a lot of stress eating. The very eating that sabotages your goals around a healthy lifestyle. Due to the pressures many people are experiencing, they go into “automatic” on the very behaviors it would be beneficial to be more aware of. Take Time to Pay Attention

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Weight Gain is Often Due to “What’s Eating You”

Over the last decade, it has become increasingly obvious that obesity is on the rise. According to the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 18.5% of children and nearly 40% of adults had obesity in 2015–2016. In a recent article by Amy Norton, published on the WebMD site, after a brief leveling off period, obesity is once again on the rise. Although it appeared as if the rise plateaued in recent years, that was short-lived. If nothing changes, it is estimated that half of all U.S. teenagers will be overweight or obese by 2030. Over half! That’s alarming.

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What Does Your Body Require?

Did you know your body has different requirements for food in the hot summertime than it does in the cold of winter? It’s true. Your body probably needs light, cooling foods in the summer, like fruits, vegetables, and raw foods, and requires less food than at other times of the year. If you live where the winters are cold, your body needs complex or concentrated foods that create heat in the winter, like meats, grains, and beans. And you might need to eat more food in the winter than in the summer.

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Where Does Your Food Really Come From?

Have you ever gone to a restaurant and watched people eat? Really watched? Most people are so unconscious of the way they are filling their bodies (by way of their meals) they are what we can classify as unconscious eaters. It’s the same with where our food comes from. Ask most people where food comes from and they don’t really know. They are unconscious shoppers. We have become incredibly disconnected from our food. Many children and a lot of adults don’t know where food actually comes from. They’ve never taken time to learn this. They assume the food is going to show up.

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The Truth about Enriched and Fortified Foods

It’s easy to get confused with terminology used to describe food. Take the words enriched and fortified. On the surface, they sound like words we want associated with the foods we consume but digging deeper may reveal a completely different story. Fortified and enriched foods were introduced in 1930s and 1940s. They were intended to help boost vitamin and mineral intake with foods that adults and children were already eating, like grains and milk.

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The Insanity of New Year’s Resolutions and Dieting

With the New Year upon us, health clubs are ramping up for the influx of new members, store shelves are being lined with the latest and greatest “diet” pill and countless individuals are ready to set diet and weight loss resolutions they erroneously believe will somehow be different than in the past.

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Stress Can Make You Fat and Sick

It seems everywhere we look, we have evidence of the stress of everyday living. Whether it be work, relationships, finances, family or what to do over the weekend, there are ample stress activators we all deal with. Many people have incorporated the mantra, “I’ll get around to it tomorrow,” into conversations when confronted with the need to address their stressors. Yet, left unattended, mild stress can escalate into serious medical conditions.

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The Correlation to What You Consume and How You Feel

Do you ever feel “out of sorts?” This is when, for all outward appearances, nothing is wrong, but you just feel like something is off. Maybe you feel anxiety one moment, depression the next. You might feel down for no apparent reason. It could be the feeling of wanting to go back to bed and pull the covers over your head. This is not uncommon and unfortunately, becoming more frequent for many people of all ages and backgrounds. Consider this, how you feel is directly related to what you consume. Not only what you eat, but what you read, watch and listen to.

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One of Nature’s Best Foods… Beans

Chances are, those eating the SAD diet– Standard American Diet – have one thing missing from their plate…beans. Beans are associated with better health, increased (and healthy) bowel movements due to amount of fiber they contain, and longevity. According to research by Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest,” beans ARE one of the foods most associated with a longer, healthier life.

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Mealtime Turned into Family Time; Positive Benefits Beyond Compare

It seems more every day, families are being pulled in any number of directions that minimize their time together. Add to that, the rushed lifestyles most people live and it’s no wonder sit-down mealtime is almost nonexistent in many families. Millions of people are on the “window” diet. Simply put, you drive up to a window to order the family dinner. Convenient, cheap and fast. Or is it? In reality, the short-term and long-term cost of the “window” diet is very high. Short-term

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It Takes Guts to Be Healthy

Have you ever watched the commercial where there’s a group of good-looking friends out for dinner and the really good-looking guy has an upset stomach from what he ate? Rather than addressing the cause, the guy talks about how he popped a little pill and the problem is gone. He smiles, orders more of the very food that caused the upset stomach, bloating and gas and happily goes about the festivities. Problem solved. Not so fast. The problem is not gone, it’s merely covered up.

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Intuitively Communicate with Your Dog… and Other Critters

Have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? Can you discover if they have aches and pains, they want you to know about? Are they happy or sad? Do they care about what they eat, or are they willing to eat whatever you feed them? The answers to these questions are available to you, when you know how to intuitively tune into your animals. Take dogs for example. When you are able to tune into your dog, you can determine what he/she is not only asking for but in need of, such as certain foods and nutrition.

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Clean Eat Your Way to Optimal Health

In the time I’ve been working with clients on intuitive eating, I’ve heard just about every buzzword there is for the latest and greatest diet. The problem is this; diets usually don’t work. Well, in the short term they might, but long-term, most diets are not sustainable. And many are downright unhealthy. One buzzword that’s become very popular is “clean eating.” Yet, unlike many of the fad diets, clean eating can be very healthy. What is Clean Eating?

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Is Stress Making You Fat and Sick?

“Don’t eat so much.” “All you need is willpower.” “Just resist temptation.” How often have we heard things like this from well-intentioned loved ones? Often, overeating has nothing to do with willpower or avoiding temptation. It has to do with the level of stress you are dealing with. And the more people tell us to eat less, the more stressed we tend to be. General stress coupled with emotional stress is associated with innumerable problems including overeating, binge eating and stuffing resulting in being overweight, even obese.

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Get ready for seasonal change The 30 Second Gut Flush Detox Recipe

It’s that time of year where the holidays are either a reason to indulge or the catalyst to finally commit to becoming your healthiest self. The end of the year and the shifting of seasons should be a prompt to look more deeply inside ourselves. For most, the commitment lasts a week or two, maybe a month if your “really” committed. Then the conversation begins; “I’ll start after the holidays.” Then it’s, “I’ll start on January 1st.” Soon it’s, “After Valentine Day.” And on and on. When I mentioned looking more deeply inside yourselves, I’m talking physically inside yourself.

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The Bliss Point in Food is Incredibly Harmful to You

I’m fascinated with the relationship most people have with food. With many people it’s a love/hate situation. They love the taste of certain foods but hate the guilty feelings they get knowing these foods are not very healthy for them. They love the rush they get when they take a bite into something filled with sugar, but they hate the crash and burn feeling that hits 30 to 60 minutes later.

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Intermittent Fasting and Muscle Testing… a Powerful Combination

At any given time, there will be the “latest and greatest” in diet fads. Whether it be the low fat, low carb, calorie counting, high protein diet, there is always something grabbing the news headlines. Right now, IF – Intermittent Fasting, is all the craze. In a nutshell, intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. There are cycles ranging from 16/8 to 20/4 to one meal a day. One number represents how long you will go without consuming any food, the other is your window of time to consume food.

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Cravings and Emotions… Triggers for Bingeing

If you’re like most people, you’ve experienced food cravings. Out of the blue, you get an urge for something that you swore you would never eat… again. You find yourself automatically heading to the cabinet, mindlessly open the door, reaching in, and grabbing an unopened bag of potato chips, not even aware of what you’re doing. Suddenly, you “come to” taking the last handful of chips from the bag. Angry that you did this, you search for something else to ease the guilt.

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Sugar Cravings Be Gone… Not So Fast

I have a confession to make. Not many people know this about me, but I am a data geek. There, I’ve said it. I’m a data geek. Ahhhh, that felt good to get that out. My primary focus with gathering and analyzing data has to do with food, health and nutrition and energy. Recently, I read survey results from a leading health expert that indicated her community has a very high interest in learning about overcoming low energy, poor sleep, chronic illness, and sugar cravings.

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Conscious Cooking and Eating

Conscious cooking The first time I heard the term “conscious cooking” I didn’t give it much thought. However, over time, I realize I’ve been a conscious cooker for as far back as I can remember. I just hadn’t put a label on it. Shift in Perception Let’s start with what conscious cooking means. According to one source, conscious cooking is about a shift in perception to the foods we are preparing and the food types we use.

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How Stress Causes Weight Gain

Stress is a natural reaction in humans and animals. The key word is reaction. Each person reacts differently to that which they perceive as stress. Some people are very sensitive to changes in the energy around them. What is a grievous stressor to one person might not bother another person at all. What is Stress?

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Muscle Testing the Sway Way

Wouldn’t it be great if you could tap into your inner knowing to determine the best foods for your body? The type of foods that allow you to perform at your best? Actually, you can. The best way to do this is with muscle testing. I’ve been muscle testing my foods for decades and teach my clients how to muscle test food before they consume anything. The results are nothing short of miraculous. Foods you may not know are causing you discomfort, even harm, are revealed through muscle testing.

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The Benefits of Praying Over Your Food

It’s likely you’ve heard that prayer has the power to heal. Perhaps you’ve even experienced the power of prayer on your health or that of a loved one. But did you know praying over your food increases the health properties of your meal? It has been proven scientifically that prayer changes frequencies, and food is a frequency. Expressing gratitude, giving thanks, and blessing food is an ancient energy technique. Prayer and gratitude may be the most important and profound energy techniques of all when it comes to intentional eating.

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The Pill or Pink Liquid Won’t Solve Your Food Reactions

Have you ever eaten something and within minutes, you regret it? Maybe your stomach starts to gurgle. You might feel the onset of indigestion or heartbu or your head starts throbbing. It’s not uncommon for people to experience these types of reactions and immediately pop a pill or drink the well-known pink liquid in order to fix the problem.

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Are GMOs As Harmful as We Think?

In years past, most people didn’t give thought to how their food was grown and processed. It was a pretty simple process of “from farm to table.” That was the past. Today, it’s a completely different reality. In recent years, the Internet has exposed many hidden secrets as to the way our foods are processed. A hot topic of discussion, and controversy is GMO foods compared to organic. GMOs

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Stress Can Make You Fat and Sick

If someone were to ask you, “When is the last time you were stressed?” you likely wouldn’t have to give it much thought. If you’re like most people, the answer would be, “Today.” The reality is, we live is a stress filled world. Yet, we don’t have to let stress work against us. But if you don’t get stress under control, there’s a good chance you will experience problems that could have been avoided.

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Food… A necessarily evil or a welcome friend?

Food. On the one hand, one of our greatest pleasures. On the other hand, one of our greatest challenges. We love to eat, and more than that, we have to eat. Food, air, and water are primary requirements to sustain life. Yet, it’s the kind of foods we consume that can either help us or severely hinder us. Scary News

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Wholistic Approach to Stress

Have you ever heard of wholistic stress? Wholistic stress is all you do, all your mental, physical and emotional habits, that either enhances or negates your health and moves you closer or further away from optimal health. Something that enhances your life, on all levels is to take holistic approach to managing your stress including mind, body and spirit. When you take a holistic approach, you are better able to function with day-to-day demands. Real or Imagined?

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Everything Operates Based on Energy

Einstein made no secret that everything is energy. He was responsible for bringing awareness to the fact that we are made up of energy. All parts of the body including muscles, brain, heart, liver and the brain, need energy to work. This energy comes from many sources, but most of all from the food we eat. Most People Lack What They Need

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3 Steps To Consuming What Your Body is Asking For

Wouldn’t it be great if you could eat to support your focus, energy and clarity? You can. When you tap into what your body is asking for, you can achieve all this and more. But with all the different food choices available as well as the latest fad diets, one is left wondering what is best for them, individually. This is one reaso I decided to write, The Food Codes; Intuitive Eating for Every Body. https://amzn.to/2LiwPHl

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Energized or Exhausted… Which are You?

Have you noticed how people seem to move in one of two directions in life? There are those who feel exhausted most of the time, including upon waking. Then there are those who seem almost superhuman. They wake up energized, have a very full day, yet, they are not dragging by day’s end. Sure, they do slow down a bit, but they don’t have a major dip in their energy. In today’s fast-paced world, it seems the majority of people fall into the “exhausted” camp. Drinking cup after cup of coffee, energy drinks, or even popping energy pills, they do what they can to get through the day.

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A Wholistic Approach to Stress

Have you ever heard of wholistic stress? Wholistic stress is all you do, all your mental, physical and emotional habits, that either enhances or negates your health and moves you closer or further away from optimal health. Something that enhances your life, on all levels is to take holistic approach to managing your stress including mind, body and spirit. When you take a holistic approach, you are better able to function with day-to-day demands. Real or Imagined?

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Muscle Testing Allows for Intuitive Eating for Optimal Health

Wouldn’t it be great to intuitively know which foods are best for you and which to avoid? A knowing that wouldn’t require a bunch of time and energy to “receive” the correct answer. Actually, you can. With my method, called The Food Codes™, I teach you exactly how to do this. It’s with muscle-testing. The Food Codes method is a deceptively simple way to disce what your body needs at any moment. People have a seemingly magical ability to know a truth from a lie. But it’s not magic; it’s an intuitive gift we all possess.

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How to Know What You Should Eat

In a recent interview the publisher of Success Magazine asked one of the nation’s foremost fitness and nutrition coaches, “What is the most frequent question that you get asked as a health and wellness expert?” Her reply was, “The most common question is- What can I eat?” Food news is major news these days. Pesticides and chemicals, processed foods, salt, sugar, bad fats, good fats, organic, not organic, GMO, BHA, BHT, and GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe), yikes, what does it all mean?

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Why Diets are Killing Us

The average person has several diets in their lifetime. Over 45 millio Americans start a diet each year according to an article by Linda Searing in the Washington Post. 45 million! According to Express, the average person tries 55 diets in their lifetime. These numbers are staggering.

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The Insanity of New Year’s Resolutions and Dieting

With the New Year upon us, health clubs are ramping up for the influx of new members, store shelves are being lined with the latest and greatest “diet” pill and countless individuals are ready to set diet and weight loss resolutions they erroneously believe will somehow be different than in the past.

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The 30-Second Gut Flush

If you’re like most people, you deal with gas, bloated belly and indigestion. It’s become such a common occurrence; most people automatically reach for the “thick pink liquid” or a little pill to get rid of the problem. Or so they think. The problem goes beyond the symptoms and actually is more likely caused from a backed-up gut. A backed-up gut can cause countless problems including a higher risk for colon cancer, skin rashes, irritability and low energy.

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Stress Eating… It Doesn’t Do a Body Good

Ahhhh food. In many situations it’s an incredibly pleasurable experience. Yet, some food is not so pleasurable. There are foods that are actually stress inducers. You might not have thought of food as a stressor before, but here is some food for thought: The last two decades have produced a large amount of research that linked stress to obesity and diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions and diseases. Increased fat-storing, abdominal obesity, low metabolism, high blood sugar, and hormone problems are all linked to stress.

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Make 2020 Your Best Year Ever… The Food Codes Way

I work with a wide cross-section of entrepreneurs, corporate management types and executives. A common thread among all of them is they want to be their best, feel their best and truthfully, look their best, but many are missing the mark. They push themselves to get so much done, but by day’s end, they are spent. Within minutes of talking with them, I’ve identified the culprit. The foods they are consuming. Many mistakenly believe what they are eating is good for them, but as my research has revealed, what may be good for one person, may be slowing someone else down.

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Muscle Testing Taps into The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Your subconscious mind, sometimes called the unconscious brain or the body-mind, holds and is continuously recording your existence. It’s in a state of “record on” day and night, recording every bit of information in your environment and every thought and emotion. Your conscious mind can process only a tiny fraction of the information that the subconscious mind processes per second. The subconscious mind knows which stresses have taken your body to an energetically imbalanced state, as well as what your body needs to return to a state of balance and harmony.

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