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It is sweltering hot - dangerously hot - in many areas of the States. Right here, on my block, it hit an all time high yesterday of 103 degrees! I 'ran' whatever errands I needed to 'run' at a crawl with a bottle of ice water in one hand and a 'spritzer' (a.k.a. spray bottle…

We prefer mindless dieting to mindful eating. We want someone to tell us what to do. Serve up a simple plan, if you will. We intellectually understand that there is no 'magic bullet,' but we still cling to the hope that there is one. And, so we are willing to entertain yet another fad diet.…

Even though it was hot enough to fry an egg on the street this morning (97 degrees and counting!), I resisted; and instead, I pulled out my blender from under the counter, dusted it off and declared it "Smoothie Season."

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You…
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