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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach It was played every hour. The unintentional suicide attempt I saw on the news this morning. For anyone who doesn’t watch the news, a woman jumped straight in the path of a speeding train, got sandwiched in the middle of the tracks. The train came to an emergency halt

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed., Diabesity Coach. Lunch time: the conference was at one of the poshest hotels in Vancouver. Armed with a large sandwich from the conference, twice the size of my appetite, I slipped out at lunch time for some fresh air when I was dismayed to see a disheveled man in a sleeping

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed., Diabesity Coach Now, suppose, just suppose, with World Food Day just round the corner all my friends with diabesity—and that includes you, would make a pledge to pass up all processed food and cook from scratch. Especially for those who are trying to make diabesity history. Cook and freeze, then you

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed.Did you watch the news today? I’m surprised it was news that one in four kids in Canada is overweight. It’s higher in some other countries. We have had nearly 20 studies documenting the effects of 20 minutes of exercise every school day. Yet the results of these findings indicate that the

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Do you like trying out the foods put out in tester booths in the supermarket? As I chatted with the lady doing the display yesterday I thought: goodness, do people realize that all that food in boxes is contributing to the national diabesity epidemic? In the supermarket yesterday and the offerings

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