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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M. Ed. Which hemisphere do you live in? Where I live, in Vancouver, Canada, we have just experienced the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Snow creates the proverbial winter wonderland here in Vancouver, but also traffic snarl-ups, slippery roads thanks to black ice, flight delays that had passengers sleeping on the floor in

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Are you ONE or THREE? Am I what? Statistics at the end of the last century used to say that half of the North American population was overweight. Today, in 2008, it isn’t 50% any more. Three out of four are overweight. So imagine you’re part of a quartet. Are you

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© Jacquelyn Johnston, M.Ed. Want a failsafe Cure-All? I was recently at a super seminar on arthritis when something struck me about the audience. Most of the attendees were obese. When the seminar was over, there was a line-up to have a word with the speaker, a rheumatologist. The Doctor had inserted subtle hints throughout

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