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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach Do you receive requests to pass on this kind of e-mail to 10 people, following which all manner of good things will be showered on you? I get quite a few. Today, I got one with the picture of a burning candle. You may have seen the one with

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach Fred? Who’s Fred? And why is his birthday of any significance? Once upon a time, in 1841, a little boy was born in Ontario, Canada. He attended local schools and attended the University of Toronto, becoming a medical doctor, then a lawyer, and acquiring a PhD in science in

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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 That was the first thing I heard on the news this morning. And I thought, what a good idea. While our Acute Care Systems are under overhaul, wouldn’t it be a good time for us to help the government help us? We were ordering lunch at a Vancouver restaurant

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach Do you remember Chicken Little’s answer to the other animals who wanted to know where she was running off to so fast? “Oh, dear, the sky is falling! I must go and tell the king!” Now imagine Chicken Little, Ducky Lucky and Turkey-Lurkey all showing up at the palace

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Diabesity Coach Interspersed in the current health care debate is the urgency surrounding the swine flu shots. This week, many journalists talked around the topic. Very little investigative reporting is being adjuvants and preservatives that are causing all the controversy, although as many neurological conditions occurred after the flu shot was

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