Homemade Vegan Breakfast - Broccoli Sprouts

My favourite breakfast to start my day.

Freshly grown #BroccoliSprouts on homemade bread, a little hemp oil, cayenne pepper, turmeric & black pepper and the special hack to maximise and activate the #sulfurane in the broccoli, a little sprinkled English mustard powder.

By the way, dogs love broccoli sprouts, it is an easy and cheap way to add valuable nutrients to your pooches meals.

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Berries for free - Healing with Nutrients

As the end of summer approaches and the nights draw in, our countryside (N. Hemisphere) is handing over its bounty of wild foods.

My personal favourites are the abundance of berries, especially Blackberry and Elderberry. The amount of health benefits and vital immune nutrients contained in these fruits is stunning and it's all free, a true gift from nature.

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Please be selective where you collect your berries. Don't collect near roads or industry, the pollutants absorbed by these plants can be in high concentrations and kinda defeats the purpose of collecting them as part of your health routine. Also, make sure they are above dog height, I'll leave the obvious explanation of this to your imagination!

The recipe above is my typical smoothie at this time of the year, it has the full nutritional base covered. This will provide 2 pints a day for two days (keep in fridge). One pint in the morning and one an hour before bed. This is not only an amazing meal in a glass but more importantly, it's preventative medicine and gives me the nutrients to fuel and repair my 50yr old body every day. 

If you don't want to go into this complexity just keep it simple 

• A large handful of blackberries
• A couple of freshly picked apples
• A handful of green leaves
• Half an unwaxed lemon
• Ginger to taste
• tsp Cinnamon 
• Filtered water

Don't forget you can always freeze any excess but please don't be greedy. Don't harvest from one place, remember the wildlife also rely on the berry harvest to achieve optimal health in preparation for the winter. The animals know this instinctively, we should all pay more attention.

Now go out and fill up on berry goodness.

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Food Conspiracies No More - The Great Awakening

By John Hodges

As society becomes more aware of the dangers and 'Conspiracies' (I hate to use the word) exposing a major conflict of interests between the food industry and big pharma, I'm often asked the question "what can I do to protect our families"?

The answer is simple:

Identify the enemy and remove them from your lives.

'Knowlege is power' and without it, we have to rely on the propaganda we are spoon fed from birth and a large dose of blind faith to make the important decisions for our lives.

Personally, I don't find this attitude satisfactory for my personal health and that of my loved ones.

We're not in Kansas anymore. The wizard behind the curtain is real and he wants your acquiescence and MONEY. Your quality of life and health are not the corporations' priorities regardless of what the TV heads are paid to make you believe. Please stop kidding yourselves.

Below is the esteemed body of work by writer/researcher Mark Plummer. 

The information in these books will shatter your preconceived paradigms about the food and the health industries which by your ignorance and acquiescence are determining your present and future health. 

Don't be scared!!

Don't feel stupid

They fooled us all for a loooong time.

Just this last week a 46-year-old farmer sued and won a trial case against Monsanto (now Bayer) exposing the frightening and real dangers of the incredibly popular weed killer Roundup. 

It has been ruled that his use of Roundup at work and more specifically one of its chemical components an organophosphate, L glyphosate, caused his terminal cancer. 

He has been awarded $289m in damages. I hope this test case will now expose and open the doors to thousands of claims against this evil company that knowingly is destroying lives, environment and the planet's food chains for profits. 

Watch this space!

I'll keep it simple, the industrial use of Roundup soaks your food in organophosphates (L glyphosate) to kill pests that threaten the crops. It kills everything except the GMO resistant food crops. 

Ya get it? IT KILLS EVERYTHING, unwanted plants, insects, moulds, bacteria, YOU...everything!!! 

Unless it's been genetically modified it doesn't survive Roundup....sorry, you're are not included and neither is your family!

All of your processed foods and mass-produced fruits and veg. 

All that lovely GMO food that is hidden in the ingredients list in your bread, cereals and other such staples of the family kitchen are soaked with these poisons.

Conspiracy......NO MORE

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If you're reading this blog, you've already started searching for the truth.

The GOOD NEWS is the damage to your health can be reversed but it's YOUR choice. 

Your education can start here. The findings, conclusions and often challenging research from Mark Plummer after diligent years of investigation and research, all lay between the covers of his books. You will find all the information you need to start protecting and enhancing the health and lives of your family. 

It's NOT normal that everyone around us seems to be sick and medicated, young and old, WHY?

The answer lies here. 

Are you ready?

The Medicine Is On Your Plate.....if you choose it to be so.

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Hemp Milk Recipe: The Cruelty-free, Non-dairy, Vegan Alternative to Cow’s Milk that you can make at home in under 5 minutes

by Pilar Bueno

If you are considering making the switch to non-animal milk, either for ethical reasons (animal welfare), health reasons (e.g. lactose intolerance, allergy) or environmental reasons, you will find that making your own Plant-based alternative takes very little effort or time. All you require are three things: hemp seeds (or your chosen nut/cereal), filtered water and a blender.

Homemade Plant-based milk is preferable than the commercial dairy-free varieties, as these often contain artificial sweeteners, colours and preservatives. This spoils what would have been a very healthy drink. You will also find that making your own milk is healthier for your pocket.

The most popular varieties of plant milk are Soya, Almond and Rice Milk, but here I am going to share with you my recipe for making my favourite of all, Hemp Milk.

I love the taste of Hemp milk, it is also an incredibly nutritious plant very rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, antioxidants, live enzymes, chlorophyll, 9 essential amino acids, protein and is very rich in essential fatty acids (Omega 3, 6, 9 and GLA - vital for mental health).

Hemp is a species of the Cannabis Sativa, it is predominantly grown for its seeds and fibre to make a variety of industrial and commercial products such as food, clothes, paper, rope, and even eco-building materials. It is one of the oldest crops and it is incredibly sustainable as not only does it grow very quickly, it doesn't need pesticides, it naturally regenerates its own soil and, quite incredibly, every single part of the plant can and is used.

But before going any further, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Drinking hemp milk is not going to get you “high” and you are not going to turn into a “pothead” for adding it to your cereal or coffee every morning.

Whilst the recreational marijuana plant contains high levels (anywhere from 5 to 30%) of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is credited to be the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis), the Hemp plant contains minute levels of this psychoactive chemical (less than 0.3%) and higher concentrations of CBD (which stands for Cannabidiol). Rest assured, therefore, that hemp products will NOT get you high, as they are NOT psychoactive.

Incidentally, you may be aware of the incredible uses of CBD oil and medicinal marijuana as a powerful natural substitute of pharmaceutical painkillers and as a treatment for an array of serious medical conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, to name a few.

Research still continues but in many states in America, where medical marijuana has been legalised, and the health benefits have become more accepted in society, more studies continue to be published supporting its use, much to the distress of Big Pharma who fears to lose their monopoly because let’s face it, a healthy population is not good for profits!
I realise I am digressing here, so let me get back to it.

Making your own Hemp milk doesn’t take much effort at all, but if you are using unshelled seeds, I would recommend that you do soak them for 3 to 4 hours. Although not essential, soaking them not only helps with digestion but it enhances the flavour significantly. I personally use whole hemp seeds i.e. they still have the natural shell covering, which is edible and also a great source of fibre. But if you want to make the process even easier and faster, you can use the same amount of hemp seed hearts (shelled hemp seeds) and skip the soaking and straining process.

The following recipe is just a guide. Add more hemp seeds and/or water depending on the consistency or nutty taste you prefer.

Ingredients:

(Makes approximately 1 Litre)

125g of Whole Organic Hemp Seeds (soaked for 4 hours and drained)

1 Litre of Filtered Water

Pinch of Himalayan Pink Salt

Instructions:

Add all ingredients to your Blender / Food processor

Blend for approximately 1 minute or until smooth

Filter the milk using a cheesecloth, fine strainer or nut milk bag

The residue that is left behind (essentially the shells) can be fed to the birds or put straight into your composter.

You can store it for up to 4 days in the fridge in a glass jar with an airtight lid. Remember to shake it well before use as you will notice some separation due to the fact that there are no additives or fillers in the milk.

Some Optional extras (for enhanced / sweeter flavour):

1 tbsp of Natural Vanilla Extract. Please be aware that Vanilla “Essence” is NOT a natural product, but a synthetic (chemically produced) vanilla flavouring.

2 tablespoons of Maple Syrup or 4 pitted dates

2 tablespoons of cacao powder (for a chocolate version)

Not so keen on Hemp?

Try these other non-dairy alternative milk recipes below. They are all made in the same way and I would recommend that you soak them for 3 to 4 hours. 
Remember that soaking them can help to properly digest them. Nuts, like grains and legumes, contain phytic acid, often referred to as an "anti-nutrient" because it can bind minerals in the gastrointestinal tract before they are fully absorbed.

ALMOND MILK: 150g raw almonds / 1 Litre of filtered water

CASHEW Milk: 125g raw cashews / 1 Litre of filtered water

Earlier on, I said that apart from its nutritional advantages, it also makes financial sense to make your own milk at home. I always buy Organic hemp seed and since we make it on a regular basis, I buy it in 1kg or 2.5kg bulk from our wholefoods supplier Buy Whole Foods Online. This way, 1 litre of organic hemp milk costs me as little as £0.71 instead of £1.60 - £1.99 (non-organic) in leading supermarkets and health food stores.

Another reason to enjoy your deliciously fresh and nutritious milk. Use it in tea, coffee, porridge, cereals, cooking or, as I love it, drink it on its own.

Cheers and Good health

Pilar Bueno

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'The Great Awakening'

A Journey to Dietary Enlightenment

by Mark Plummer BSc / PGCE

Before late 2015 I had no real idea how nefarious the global processed food industry really is. Sure, I knew a bit about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s), a spectre I’ve been following since the mid-1990’s. Even so, I had no idea as to how the modern food business operates, not so 3 years later. 

Having spent some time researching its machinations and objectives it is not hard to see why food manufacture in the modern age is so steeped in secrecy, double-speak and dis-information. It is also not hard to see why they want to keep it that way too. One thread of how this three book series came together takes me back to my late teens and early twenties. 

Through my university days, I learned about organochlorine or halogenated hydrocarbon compounds. Perhaps the most infamous of these is the compound di-chloro di-phenyl tri-chloro-ethane (DDT) and a family of chemicals called poly-chlorinated bi-phenols (PCB’s). I learned about how they were used as pesticides and in industry respectively. I learned about their temporary success in pest control, but I also learned about their devastating long-term environmental impact. I learned of how insects evolved resistance to the poisons they were coming into contact with. I learned of how insect resistance is what drove the manufacture of ever more organochlorine pesticides. 

To date, many hundreds of these compounds are cycling their way through the planet and its biosphere. These substances may well be chemically unique compounds, but they all have the same broad devastatingly irreversible environmental impacts, irreversibility being one fundamental reason to oppose GMO’s. If the chemical companies really cared about “the environment” such substances would not have been manufactured in anything like the quantity or varieties they have been. The same goes, but for different reasons for glyphosate (trade name Round-Up) and neonicotinoid (the bee-killing) pesticides.

DDT sprayed liberally in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Later in the mid-1990’s I read of GM soya being grown across the pond in the US and Brazil. I also saw how the industry was making inroads into the Far East, particularly in China. At home, here in the UK, I saw the flavr-savr tomato come onto the supermarket shelves and then within months I saw it come off them again! This was 1995-6 when the nascent new labour opposition headed by Tony Blair was successfully duping the country and its people (me included) into thinking it was some sort of alternative to the hated conservative party, headed by the equally loathsome John Major.

Anyway, Good old “bomber” Blair gets elected in 1997 and things were supposed “to get better” were they not? Clearly, they didn’t! For me the rot set in over the academy programme, university tuition fees and the continuation of privatisation along with a general realisation that New Labour was, in essence, the same as the conservatives.  Simultaneously, I was not happy about British involvement in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kosovo. At the time I was not in the least bit informed about any of this. I was far too busy enjoying myself! I knew there was more to what “I was being told” and I never lost sight of the environmental knowledge I gained at university. Yet, I was losing “the argument” on these and other matters because I just didn’t know the nuts and bolts of what I was talking about. 

A set of circumstances I am pleased to say no longer exist, at least in the areas where I profess to “know my damned onions”.  Yet, it still took Afghanistan and Iraq to really catalyse my thinking and catapult forwards to where I now politically, philosophically and ideologically reside.  

I learned that Monsanto was involved in the production of compounds such as DDT and the other chemicals mentioned above. I learned of equivalent involvement in the production of Agent Orange and later how the British army also used in Malaya. I saw the clear ideological links between what was, and still is, going on in the Middle East and Central Asia and equally criminal imperial ventures such as South East Asia and Chechnya. On the back of Iraq and Afghanistan, I learned of the sordid history of Western and other forms of Imperialism.  Plus, the totality of lies, deceit, hypocrisy and destruction that goes with it all.  I was and still am appalled over the hypocrisy around Colonel Gadhafi’s Libya. For a time that particular dictator got his oil swap Lockerbie points. He also caused through arms sales from the UK (and other countries) untold suffering to people all over Western Africa. The list of crimes wrapped up in all of this and more is as endless as it is well documented, all the reader has to do is look.

From the Horse’s mouth in 2001 – Nothing has changed since then!

The key point of this article is the realisation that the same companies and institutions that were pushing for war in the Middle East, were the same companies who made the types of chemicals mentioned above.  They were also involved (and still are) in the drive to implement GMO’s in agriculture all over the world.  A point outlined with Specific reference to Iraq in chapter 6 of the Introducing GMO's book. 

For instance, here in the UK a company called Rothamsted Research is well embedded with various forms of GM crop, but also has a direct historical connection to developing poisons such as Agent Orange as weapons of war. And it was for reasons such as this that the fundraising job mentioned in chapter eight of the GMO book comes to its forte. 

In 2003 ONE reason for opposing GMO’s in agriculture was realising that a company such as Monsanto, with its sordid history, really ought to have no business in telling the world what is good to eat and what is not. In 2018 nothing has changed! Exactly the same goes for ALL other transnational corporations involved in GMO’s. The "Introducing GMO's" book gives countless additional examples and provides links to plenty more.

The second book in the series concerns the mass production of bread here in the UK. It grew out of an original idea to look at additives and food processing in general. I soon realised that developing an “additives database” was a reinventing the wheel exercise. So I decided to focus on a staple of the British diet, the humble loaf of bread. What I found out in the course of putting that book together should put any rational human being off ever eating mass produced bread of any kind again. 

Bread by definition is made by mixing flour, yeast and water together in the right proportions and then following the instructions for kneading, rising and finally baking into the final loaf. Bread produced through the Chorleywood process is not made in this way. All the reader has to do is look at the ingredients in any supermarket loaf. The how what and why of those ingredients form the bedrock of “The BIG Secret - What Happened To Our Bread?" book. 

On the back of that writing, we have invested in a bread maker. We use a simple Panasonic SD2500 machine, with a recipe book, which right now is baking a 5 seeded granary loaf. It is made from flour, water, butter, yeast, sugar, the seeds and that is all. 

Solely, from a bread perspective, if there is one thing the reader can do right now it would be to invest in a bread maker. For sure there is an initial outlay, which is going to be an issue if you’re on a budget. And finance is another point raised throughout the trilogy, it’s no good banging on about how terrible GMO’s and processed food is and then praising the virtues of whole or organic food if we have millions of people in the population who are barely getting by.  However, our machine cost £100 and we spend on average about £15 per month on ingredients. The health, taste and nutritional benefits more than outweigh those costs. In any case, if you use your machine regularly and follow the recipes it will have paid for itself in about 2-3 months. 

Another point is raised here and is made repeatedly throughout the writing. The ONLY reason people do not buy more fresh wholesome and the locally produced food is down to cost. In turn, the only reason proper food is so much more expensive is structural, i.e. mass produced food is cheaper than non-processed food. 

The trilogy of writing uses examples from the real world to demonstrate this and chapter four in the “food additives” book uses examples from the life of yours truly.  As with plastics and the processed food outlined in the third book, the only real answer is to overhaul how food and agriculture are organised all over the world. In many cases as with single-use plastic packaging and other items, the only REAL answer is to STOP making or producing it, a point raised in chapter 3 of the “Food Additives - The Truth” book.  

This third volume also considers sweeteners in general and aspartame in particular. The same nefarious links mentioned above as regards GMO’s also apply to the most studied and arguably most controversial sweetener on the planet. As for sweeteners themselves, read the book, in fact, you can read that chapter first if you like, when you’re done if you keep ingesting sweeteners there really is nothing else I (or anyone else) can do.

Bread from the bread machine

Prior to 2015, I had no idea as to the depth of knowledge and research there is tied up under the word “nutrition”. I truly believed it was wishy-washy whimsical nonsense and certainly not as important as the global issues I constantly bang on about. Read the books to see what they are! I am pleased to inform the reader that I see how wrong I was. The domain of food and nutrition is just as hard in the science and politics department as the big self-inflicted problems we need to fix if we are to survive on this Earth.

Now in May 2018 I truly do understand what is meant by the term “you are what you eat”. Since 2015 we have made as many individual choices as we can. We have cut out as much processed food as we can and we have almost completely removed meat and fish from our diet. We have taken to using more pulses, beans, nuts and grains in our cooking. We cook from scratch as much as possible too and that is another action the reader can take. Get a cookbook, the best IMO, are the traditional farmhouse type. They have better recipes, better instructions and are more fun to use in the long run. 

The only fly in the ointment here is single-use plastic. We pretty much get everything we buy in glass or metal containers. Another way to significantly reduce your plastic footprint is to stop eating meat and fish. Even so, our much re-used black bin bag becomes filled with various wrappers of grains, pulses, seeds, and other single-use packaging materials. Such is one consequence of living in a food desert!

About a month of single-use plastic in the bin bag!

So here we are then, this is the broad strokes as to where the box set comes from. My hope is that the reader will see the processed food industry and the drivers behind GMO’s for what they truly are. As a construct, it has no interest in promoting healthy eating, sustainable agriculture or nutrition. All it cares about is making cash at all costs, to the detriment of you and yours, everyone else and the planet itself. My hope is the reader will become empowered by knowledge and begin to explore and act upon the issues raised further.

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WILD FOOD GREEN SMOOTHIE......Why?

My morning Wild Food Green Smoothie and WHY I do this

Most days I'm up at first light, there's nothing wrong with me, it's just the way I've always been. When the world wakes up and I hear the birds I have to be up with them.

My health and vitality are very important to me. I want to stay active to pursue my passion for travel and wildlife photography for as long as I possibly can. This year I turned the dreaded fifty but I'm as healthy as I've ever been.

My nightmare is to be constantly suffering from some ailment or worse. I'm a BIG believer is preventative medicine. Surely it's better to stay healthy than wait for illness to strike and only then try to sort it out. Just like most of the medical profession, most of us just treat symptoms of sickness and never wonder about the cause. That's fine if you get a cold or a mild infection, but what if something more serious strikes you down. Is your immune system strong enough to fight back and even reverse disease?

According to the Smithsonian Institute, there are approximately 37.2 trillion cells in the average human body. Every single one of these cells needs amino acids which we obtain from nutrients in our diet, without them the cells lose their integrity and start to break down and die. During this process, the cells can undergo dangerous mutations which can spiral out of control when the immune system can't keep them in check. This is very simplified but essentially this is how disease starts in the body, whether it's cancer or skins problems. Every function and part of our body is made up of cells and we tend to abuse this intricate biological system at our own peril.

The modern diet is horribly low in essential nutrients. It's overprocessed, overcooked and filled with all kinds of sugars, salts and very dangerous chemicals. Don't get confused, the food business is just that, it's business. They are not responsible for your families health and wellbeing. They bombard sell us effective propaganda through all our media. In 2016 McDonald spent over £85.4m on advertising a food source that might taste good but essential is very unhealthy and ethically immoral. (I faintly remember the days of stuffing my face and then suffering for hours afterwards).

We have to be responsible for our own health and well being and especially our children. Education about nutrition is completely missing from our schooling, in the UK and across the world. This needs to change. Our societies have become obese, sick and acquiescent to the food industry and big pharma. We stopped questioning what we consume. Unfortunately, this behaviour is fed by our diet. Poor nutrition often leads to poor cognitive ability and often manifests itself as stress.

Heartburn, indigestion, "take an anti-acid and wash it down with a coke" it'll take away the discomfort and you'll look cool.....no thanks!!

Minor symptoms such as above if left ignored our years lead to serious disease as the body starts to lose the battle against the storm of poisons we pour into our bodies, three meals a day, year after year. 

Sound familiar? 

Drip, drip, drip, one bite after another on the path to destruction.

Society has become addicted to junk, processed food. Addicted to the consumer kitchen. Hardly anybody cooks nowadays. The high streets are full of takeaways and restaurants. Fifty percent of us die of cancer and the rest die of diabetes, stroke or degenerative brain diseases.

Coincidence? It didn't use to be this way at all and this epidemic is relatively a recent development but it's gathering pace.

Who benefits?

Food Industry and Big Pharma

Right, now that I've scared you all to death (see what I did there) I have some very good news.

The natural state of the human body is wellness, a state of strength and energy. Even in a place of sickness if you provide the correct, natural molecules your body requires to heal and rebuild the system the body responses. I've seen it with my own health which was in a very fast decline ten years ago and I've witnessed it in other very sick people. Remarkable recoveries after years of disabling health issues.

It's simple.

FEED THE BODY WHAT IS NEEDS TO THRIVE and SURVIVE

Often when I tell people this is the answer to regaining their health I get a standard response. 

"I don't like vegetables and I can't afford it"

Well, if you've never tried to regularly eat fruit and veg then the taste buds will find it strange but they very quickly come round and you'll find your body will start liking if not craving the 'real' food you're feeding it. 

As for cost, Yeah sure if you go the lazy vegetarian / vegan route and live off processed plant based foods from the supermarket then sure it can be very expensive. But compare that to the monetary cost of constantly being ill, losing your job, the quality your life and almost guaranteeing a painful and early death before your time. 

Now that's a high price to pay!

There is a better, healthier way.

Our countryside is full of nutritious FREE food. You don't have to be a trained botanist, you have google and a gazillion foraging, healthy living websites. But fundamentally if you can identify half a dozen common, edible plants you'll be fine.

The one monetary outlay that I'd suggest is a decent smoothie maker. A machine that is powerful enough to break down all the healthy fibre (mostly lacking in the modern diet). I use the fantastic Magimix, seriously you could put your sofa through it and it would come out a palatable, smooth drink.

I make sure I have all my nutrition and more every day by drinking my nutrition in the form of a green smoothie. Today as with many days I harvested my greens from my local countryside while I was walking the dog and trying to photograph the local flora and fauna. 

Washed and mixed with a selection of berries and fruits, plus some additional powdered superfoods which are optional I've downed 2 pints of superman nutrition which was delicious before 13:00. I have two pints stored in the fridge for later or even for the following day. 

In all the washing, chopping and blending took me no more than 10 minutes. You don't need to be a Michelin chef to prepare this at all. wash, chop and fill with filtered water or if you prefer coconut water, then hit the button on your blender and voila, your very own preventative, restorative medicine. You could also consider it as a long life pension fund.

I know for sure I've had more nutrition in my 2 pints this morning than most of the population have in an entire week or even month. It's just so easy.

Trust me you'll feel amazing after a week of doing this. It will be a little strange at first and it will help if you start to cut out the junk in your diet. If it's frozen, tinned, sweet or salty then if most probably is terrible for you.

Health is your wealth, so start saving it today.

Below is the recipe I used today, give it a try. At first, you'll probably need more fruit, ripe bananas and blueberries work really well and help give a smooth texture. The ratio I tend to use is 70% greens 30% fruits. If your struggling reverse these percentages so you have 70% fruit 30% greens and then adjust them as you go.

Very important to remember the 'greens' are where you obtain the chlorophyll, that's where the healing magic lays.

For a better explanation go here to a previous blog posts

A Plant Based Diet v Disease - A Personal Story

The Manna of Life

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Thanks and good future health.

John Hodges

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