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It’s often easier said than done, but a persons healthy living and improvement of quality of life can be summed up in three small phrases. The 3 B’s you could say. Build a better meal, boost your physical activity, and balance stress. Doing all three can be difficult but doing all three also is important and they all affect our health. They provide a valuable road map for people heading into holidays or considering a New Year’s resolution.

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Eating a salad full of stems would be considered less than palatable by most people. Similarly, cattle offered corn stalks in place of hay will not find those as an attractive meal option.

It seems that I have worn glasses most of my life.

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A starving 5-year-old girl in Nicaragua changed my life 20 years ago when she asked me to feed her. Since then, I’ve traveled to desperate places of poverty and starvation in the world providing hunger relief and development. Why do these places suffer from prolonged famines and starvation and we in America don’t?

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