How's that Sweet Tooth TREATing YOU?

Still a far cry from finished, but I do have a few sites worth checking out, can't keep it all to myself!






Sugar--- the Elephant in the Room





  • Insulin 3x higher than there use to be
  • 50% of adults are diabetic/pre-diabetic
    • 7/8 of diabetics don't even know they have it
    • You don't have to be overweight to be sick. Metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, a high percentage of visceral fat, etc can occur in any individual, regardless of weight. 
  • 80% of obese individuals are chronically ill





Think Sugar just causes Cancer? Think Again!
Almost everyone knows that sugar feeds cancer, yeast, viruses, bacteria and causes a variety of diseases. Research in the last eight years or so began to demonstrate that Alzheimer’s may actually be a metabolic disease, brought on by abnormal blood sugars and insulin resistance (insulin is the hormone that helps regulates blood sugar, but chronically high insulin levels can eventually make our body less sensitive to its effects), developing in much the same way as type 2 diabetes.
According to this new line of thinking, being overweight, inactive and eating an unhealthy diet that promotes insulin resistance may very well make us more prone to developing Alzheimer’s over time; the connection is strong enough that a number of experts in the field are no calling Alzheimer’s disease “type 3 diabetes”.
Insulin resistance can promote Alzheimer’s disease in a number of ways, including by disrupting the health of neurons in the brain, as well as by triggering abnormalities in a protein known as tau, as well as amyloid-beta precursor proteins, both of which have long been associated with the development of the disease.
The gut is your second brain, whatever goes into the gut will also affect the brain and fairly quickly. Ill prove it!
If you drank 3 shots of whisky, how fast would your brain be affected? Quickly! Why? Because your gut affects your brain.
Sugar as well as many other things, especially gluten, creates inflammation in the gut, this non-stop inflammation in the gut, eventually has an affect on the brain.
Insulin resistance also contributes to pro-inflammatory conditions in the brain, and can damage our DNA, both of which are also associated with the disease.
---Dr. Charles Majors

We have been decieved and LIED to... It's out in the open now 











How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis

  • "Yudkin was a British professor of nutrition who, in 1972, sounded the alarm about sugar in diets, saying that if sugar were treated like any other food additive "that material would be promptly banned." He said sugar, not fat, was the more likely cause of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
    For his efforts, Yudkin was branded a shill for the meat and dairy industries. His work was dismissed as "emotional assertions," "science fiction" and "a mountain of nonsense." Journals refused to publish his papers. He was uninvited from nutrition conferences and was ridiculed by the scientific community.
    "Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered," writes Ian Leslie"
  • "Yudkin's plight should be a cautionary tale to anyone who thinks we should blindly follow a scientific consensus, particularly when it involves extraordinarily complex entities like the human body, or when the consensus is used to push public policies that could affect vast populations."
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/how-settled-science-caused-a-massive-public-health-crisis/

The sugar conspiracy






Quick Overview about the Origins of the Fat Myth
(Keys Study) 















Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults



Easy ways to get the point across to anyone
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ayala-laufercahana-md/simple-measures-that-get-_b_6035556.html


56 different forms of sugar
http://authoritynutrition.com/56-different-names-for-sugar/

The case against sugar
https://aeon.co/essays/sugar-is-a-toxic-agent-that-creates-conditions-for-disease\\\\


146 REASONS SUGAR RUINS YOUR HEALTH
https://www.hammernutrition.com/knowledge/endurance-library/146-reasons-sugar-ruins-your-health/

30 legit reasons to ditch sugar
https://www.ditchthecarbs.com/30-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad-for-us/


Is Sugar Bad for You? Here’s How It Destroys Your Body


Eat good SALT.. ditch the SUGAR
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-to-counteract-the-effects-of-sugar

Sodium depletion sensitizes the reward system, making sugar more appealing; increasing the intake of salt may actually reduce sugar cravings and may even reduce the reward that you get from consuming sugar. Low-salt diets may even increase the addictiveproperties of drugs of abuse.
Unlike sugar, salt also appears beneficial to our brain. Indeed, sodium helps to move vitamin C into the brain, whereas glucose competes with its uptake. Sugar also depletes the body of B vitamins, including thiamine, which is extremely important for brain health. This suggests that consuming salt is indeed good, and even necessary, for brain health whereas overconsuming sugar wreaks havoc.


ADDICTIVE AS COCAINE
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000698

Conclusions


Our findings clearly demonstrate that intense sweetness can surpass cocaine reward, even in drug-sensitized and -addicted individuals. We speculate that the addictive potential of intense sweetness results from an inborn hypersensitivity to sweet tastants. In most mammals, including rats and humans, sweet receptors evolved in ancestral environments poor in sugars and are thus not adapted to high concentrations of sweet tastants. The supranormal stimulation of these receptors by sugar-rich diets, such as those now widely available in modern societies, would generate a supranormal reward signal in the brain, with the potential to override self-control mechanisms and thus to lead to addiction.


What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much Sugar?


Breads
http://foodbabe.com/2014/02/24/healthiest-bread-on-the-market/

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/#sthash.IeVMJUtC.dpuf

Mental disorders
http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/how-eating-wheat-can-contribute-to-mental-illness/

http://earthweareone.com/why-eating-wheat-and-gmos-will-destroy-your-health/

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/can-wheat-drive-more-your-digestive-system-crazy

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/200-clinically-confirmed-reasons-not-eat-wheat


Dr Blaylock 




You were Lied to by paid scientists 

This is... very disturbing.  Just think about all the other industries out there that have done the same thing.



Interesting discussion on why other cultures that have high carb consumption, but are skinny. Does that mean theyre "healthy".  I dare to say not.
  http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/how-do-some-cultures-stay-lean-while-still-consuming-high-amounts-of-carbohydrates

The alarm was sounded in the 1970's.. 
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin?CMP=share_btn_tw

Orrrr maybe the 50's



. 2010 Mar; 91(3): 502–509.
Published online 2010 Jan 20. doi:  10.3945/ajcn.2008.26285
PMCID: PMC2824150

Saturated fat, carbohydrate, and cardiovascular disease1,2,3,4

  • "In summary, although substitution of dietary polyunsaturated fat for saturated fat has been shown to lower CVD risk, there are few epidemiologic or clinical trial data to support a benefit of replacing saturated fat with carbohydrate. Furthermore, particularly given the differential effects of dietary saturated fats and carbohydrates on concentrations of larger and smaller LDL particles, respectively, dietary efforts to improve the increasing burden of CVD risk associated with atherogenic dyslipidemia should primarily emphasize the limitation of refined carbohydrate intakes and a reduction in excess adiposity."

Report: Sugar Industry Hid Study Linking Sugar to Heart Disease and Cancer

https://blog.bulletproof.com/sugar-industry-health-coverup/


DIET AND CORONARY THROMBOSIS

HYPOTHESIS AND FACT

John Yudkin, M.A., Ph.D., M.D. Camb., M.R.C.P., F.R.I.
How this BS got started

"On 23 September, 1955, US President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. Rather than pretend it hadn’t happened, Eisenhower insisted on making details of his illness public. The next day, his chief physician, Dr Paul Dudley White, gave a press conference at which he instructed Americans on how to avoid heart disease: stop smoking, and cut down on fat and cholesterol. In a follow-up article, White cited the research of a nutritionist at the University of Minnesota, Ancel Keys."
"Heart disease, which had been a relative rarity in the 1920s, was now felling middle-aged men at a frightening rate, and Americans were casting around for cause and cure. "
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin

"If a private enterprise had done this, it would face massive class action lawsuits, its executives would be in jail, and its reputation permanently ruined."
http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/government-advice-on-whole-milk-has-been-wrong/ 

Wheat
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/real-reason-for-toxic-wheat-its-not-gluten/#sthash.IeVMJUtC.dpuf

Refined-cereal intake and risk of selected cancers in Italy


What about Sprouted Grains? 
http://draxe.com/ezekiel-bread/

The effects of carbs on gut bacteria---subsequent effects of dysbiota
http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(14)00736-3

Genetic predispostion to food cravings
http://drhyman.com/blog/2011/02/04/stopping-addiction-to-sugar-willpower-or-genetics/#close

Affect of sugar and processed food on the brain
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-similarities-between-junk-foods-and-drugs/

Dietary Sugar, Glycemic Load, and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in a Prospective Study

Prospective Study of Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2) and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Women


Funny interview with Coke's president, but sad
http://consciousmedianews.com/journalist-shows-coca-cola-boss-how-much-sugar-is-in-their-drink/

200 studies confirming negatives of wheat
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/770306-wheat-200-clinically-confirmed-reasons-not-to-eat-it/


NY Times article embracing a low carb-high healthy fat intake
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/health/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diet.html?_r=0

SUGAR n SODA
http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/13692-the-truth-about-soda.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/041232_cancer_cells_processed_sugar_research.html

Wait, there's fructose in fruit.. what about that??!
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-about-fruit/
http://www.forksoverknives.com/is-it-possible-to-eat-too-much-fruit/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11288049

When in doubt. just eat real food

Fresh fruit consumption in relation to incident diabetes and diabetic vascular complications: A 7-y prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002279&type=printable

  • "Conclusion:  In this large epidemiological study in Chinese adults, higher fresh fruit consumption was associated with significantly lower risk of diabetes and, among diabetic individuals, lower risks of death and development of major vascular complications."






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HFCS

"High fructose corn syrup is an industrial food product and far from “natural” or a naturally occurring substance. It is extracted from corn stalks through a process so secret that Archer Daniels Midland and Carghill would not allow the investigative journalist Michael Pollan to observe it for his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The sugars are extracted through a chemical enzymatic process resulting in a chemically and biologically novel compound called HFCS."

  •  Regular cane sugar (sucrose) is made of two-sugar molecules bound tightly together– glucose and fructose in equal amounts.The enzymes in your digestive tract must break down the sucrose into glucose and fructose, which are then absorbed into the body. HFCS also consists of glucose and fructose, not in a 50-50 ratio, but a 55-45 fructose to glucose ratio in an unbound form. 
    • Since there is there is no chemical bond between them, no digestion is required so they are more rapidly absorbed into your blood stream. Fructose goes right to the liver and triggers lipogenesis(the production of fats like triglycerides and cholesterol) this is why it is the major cause of liver damage in this country and causes a condition called “fatty liver” which affects 70 million people.The rapidly absorbed glucose triggers big spikes in insulin–our body’s major fat storage hormone. Both these features of HFCS lead to increased metabolic disturbances that drive increases in appetite, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and more. 


 Lustig explains the three similarities between alcohol and fructose:10
  • Your liver metabolizes alcohol the same way as sugar — Both serve as substrates for converting dietary carbohydrate into fat. This promotes insulin resistance, fatty liver and dyslipidemia (abnormal fat levels in your blood).
  • Fructose undergoes the Maillard reaction with proteins — This causes superoxide free radicals to form, resulting in inflammation — a condition that can be also caused by acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol.
  • Fructose can directly and indirectly stimulate the brain's "hedonic pathway" — This creates habituation and dependence, the same way that ethanol does.
Additionally, research from some of America's most respected institutions now confirms that sugar is a primary dietary factor that drives obesity and chronic disease development.
One study found that fructose is readily used by cancer cells to increase their proliferation, promoting cell division and speeding their growth, which allow the cancer to spread faster.11
Alzheimer's disease is another deadly illness that can arise from too much sugar consumption. A growing body of research found a powerful connection between a high-fructose diet and your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia, through the same pathway that causes Type 2 diabetes. According to some experts, Alzheimer's and other brain disorders may be caused by the constant burning of glucose for fuel by your brain.12
Other diseases that are linked to metabolic syndrome and may potentially arise because of too much sugar consumption include:
https://articles.mercola.com/sugar-side-effects.aspx





Grains vs. Fat

http://renewingallthings.com/saturated-fat-vs-grains-one-really-enemy/

Its all connected.. Enamel defects significantly higher in celiacs--or those with a damaged gut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQgmB_zwW9k


Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32252-3/fulltext

135K people... 







Findings

During follow-up, we documented 5796 deaths and 4784 major cardiovascular disease events. Higher carbohydrate intake was associated with an increased risk of total mortality (highest [quintile 5] vslowest quintile [quintile 1] category, HR 1·28 [95% CI 1·12–1·46], ptrend=0·0001) but not with the risk of cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease mortality. Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality (quintile 5 vs quintile 1, total fat: HR 0·77 [95% CI 0·67–0·87], ptrend<0·0001; saturated fat, HR 0·86 [0·76–0·99], ptrend=0·0088; monounsaturated fat: HR 0·81 [0·71–0·92], ptrend<0·0001; and polyunsaturated fat: HR 0·80 [0·71–0·89], ptrend<0·0001). Higher saturated fat intake was associated with lower risk of stroke (quintile 5 vs quintile 1, HR 0·79 [95% CI 0·64–0·98], ptrend=0·0498). Total fat and saturated and unsaturated fats were not significantly associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality.







Interpretation

High carbohydrate intake was associated with higher risk of total mortality, whereas total fat and individual types of fat were related to lower total mortality. Total fat and types of fat were not associated with cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiovascular disease mortality, whereas saturated fat had an inverse association with stroke. Global dietary guidelines should be reconsidered in light of these findings.

Oils, Fats, cholesterol

Fats and oils made up 45% of the avg American's diet in the 60's, and the obesity rate was just over 10%.. Now, our obesity epidemic has hit 34% while our fat consumption has dropped to just 33% of our daily caloric intake... what gives eh?

http://vanessaruns.com/2011/02/08/gmos-and-why-you-should-never-use-canola-oil/

Maybe we were wrong about saturated fat?
http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/11439-are-doctors-wrong-on-saturated-fats-and-cholesterol.html?c=ssc

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/01/eggs-cholesterol-levels.aspx?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebookmercola&utm_content=nonlead&utm_campaign=20160401_eggs-cholesterol-levels


You've been lied to about fat and cholesterol 
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/bad-cholesterol-helps-you-live-longer/news-story/9341cf5325f64c0f22573b388806fd24?nk=25c176cd8460efede72c1ebadd7027eb-1468331059

Saturated Fat




From RealFarmacy.com
Five Solid Reasons to Eat Real Butter
• 1. Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) – Raw organic, pastured butter has loads of anti- tumor CLA. It inhibits the growth of cancer cells in the skin, colon, breasts and lungs. It’s anti-fungal and it stimulates muscle growth while preventing weight gain.
• 2. Butyric Acid – Butter contains 4% butyric acid – a short chain fatty acid that research indicates can inhibit tumors. It also signals the immune system into action when an infection is brewing.
• 3. Vitamin K2 – Raw, organic, pastured butter and cream contains vitamin K2 – a necessary co-factor in vitamin D synthesis. K2 also ushers calcium out of your blood stream and into bone cells which increases bone density instead of calcifying arterial and heart tissue.
• 4. Fat–Soluble Vitamins – Butter is a good source of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, and E. It’s also an excellent vehicle for their assimilation.
• 5. The Wulzen Factor – Raw, unpasteurized butter, cream and milk contain the “Wulzen factor” an anti-stiffness agent. It protects against calcification of the joints (osteoarthritis) as well as cataracts, and the calcification of the pineal gland. Pasteurization destroys the Wulzen Factor.


The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/10/feds-poised-to-withdraw-longstanding-warnings-about-dietary-cholesterol/


Things I've heard from well trusted docs that I need to get down..

  • Omega-3
    • I need to load up on it right?? 
      • Most chances are, you really don't have to supplement an extreme amount of it, or search out all foods that are extremely high in omega-3s.  



Good info on cooking with oils 
http://healyeatsreal.com/5-cooking-oils-think-healthybut-arent/
http://healyeatsreal.com/healthiest-cooking-oils/

Grapeseed
http://butterbeliever.com/is-grapeseed-oil-healthy/
http://butterbeliever.com/what-is-pufa/


Margarine
This is interesting . .. .
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings....
DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .
And now, for Margarine..
Very High in Trans fatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
Lowers quality of breast milk
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.
These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.
Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!
Chinese Proverb:
When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE





Effects of High Blood Sugar on Blood Cells




Sugar: the truth
a little "conspiracy like", but true!







Down fall of soda!



Best Bet Alternatives

http://blogs.naturalnews.com/12-untold-benefits-honey-health-nutrition-facts-calories/

Agave??
http://authoritynutrition.com/agave-nectar-is-even-worse-than-sugar/



Pretty damn funny

And more coke fun




http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/09/18/diet-soda-your-microbiome?cmpid=foodinc-fb

Good visual on amount of sugar in drinks
http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

Dude drinks 10 cokes/day for 30 days... yea. 
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/03/watch-what-could-happen-your-body-if-you-drank-10-cans-coke-day?cmpid=foodinc-fb




Aspartame

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152630972168202&fref=nf
Full overview


  • One of the most extensively tested food additives in the world. 
  • Found in over 6,000 products, and approved by over 100 food agencies 
    • Should we question it's safety?? 

  • Soft Drink industry is over $76 billion
  • Over 60 million American's drink diet soda every day (the "healthy alternative" right? ha!)

  • Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965 by a chemist working for GD Searle
    • Saw the potential as an additive as it's 200x sweeter than table sugar
    • Even the FDA wasn't convinced at first. They gave the approval for its use, and then withdrew that a year later in 1975. As the original safety studies were condemned as poorly conceived, carelessly executed, and inaccurately analyzed. Negative findings had originally been withheld from the FDA. You know, minor findings like numerous animals that had developed brain tumors..   which happened to also include the pancreas, ovaries, breasts, and other areas of the body. This initiated a Grand Jury investigation in 1977... which never ended up actually happening. Later, it was adopted by Coco-cola, and approved by the same jury. wtf. 
    • In 1981, Arthur Hayes became the new head of the FDA. (With no prior experience with food additives btw) 
    • Appointed a 5 person team to prove whether or not the previous block on aspartame was legitimate, and after it was clear there was going to be at least 3 voting against aspartame, he added another pro-aspartame member to the group. Making it a tie. Allowing him to break the tie by approving aspartame. 
    • 1 Year later, Hayes took a job with... GD Searle. WEIRD
  • "Calorie Control Council" who supports low calorie drinks (backed by the FDA) cited 100 studies that considered the detrimental effects of aspartame to be insignificant.
    •  They claimed at a person would need to drink 19 diet sodas to reach the dangerous threshold amount.
      • Ok, yea, no one will do that... but, what if a person were to have just 1 a day, for 30 years? Or like many people I know.. 4, 5, 6/day?  
    • It was claimed that only people with phenylketonuria (PKU) were the only people at a significant risk as they cannot break down phenylalanine, and aspartame contains phenylalanine.  High amounts of the amino acid leads to brain damage and neural disorders.  
    • Coco-cola has recently removed ads and claims that aspartame is safe.  Other countries have completely removed it from all of their products. 
  • There have been over 7,000 adverse reactions linked to aspartame. All across the spectrum, from minor reactions, to headaches, to seizures.  
    • Dr Walton analyzed 166 medical studies on aspartame 
      • 74 were financed by the aspartame industry. Ever single one of these studies claimed there were no negative effects. 
      • Of the remaining studies that were not funded by the aspartame industry, 84 (91%) said they DID have negative effects.  Other independent studies have found similar  results. 
    • A 22 year study at the Brigham and Women's Hospital have accounted for long term use of drinking diet soda. 
      • Significant link between non-Hodgkin's, leukemia, and other blood related cancers.
      • The paper was pushed to the side after groups funded by the aspartame industry stepped in the way of this paper getting published. Literally 36 minutes before it was suppose to be published. 


Interesting... starch based diet to heal??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wfMNNr3ak

Is Diet Soda Bad for You? Here’s What It Does to Your Body

https://draxe.com/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you/?utm_campaign=Article-October-2016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_term=dietsoda


Inspiration/ideas for health talks.. 





60 minutes




Interesting...

 2009 Feb 16;96(2):262-9. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.10.009. Epub 2008 Oct 17.

Protection of brain and pancreas from high-fat diet: effects of catechin and caffeine.



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