No one has any doubt that the healthcare system in America is broken. It works for a few wealthy medical entrepreneurs and leaves the rest of the country scrambling to pay bills or worried about insurance costs. I want to step away from the healthcare crisis and talk about the health crisis - something very few people seem to be discussing in the midst of this reform movement.

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Growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, so close to ‘The Cradle of Liberty’ and other places, where so many historic events took place, gave me a bit of an advantage as far as appreciating the true meaning of the 4th of July from a fairly young age. I always looked forward to the day, maybe even more than some of the other big holidays we all celebrate, and especially knowing that it was declared a legal holiday in 1941, the year that I was born.

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(Recipe taken from Simple & Delicious Magazine)   1 lb. cooked small shrimp, peeled, deveined and chopped 2 medium tomatoes, seeded and choppe...

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As a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, I believe water is so important that I usually keep some with me at all times. However, I also know that plastic bottles are an environmental problem and that they can leak unhealthful chemicals into the water—contamination is worse the longer the water is stored.

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