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A lesson for health inspired by LINCOLN

“That beautiful spirit – the mind, body and spirit of Abraham Lincoln” is how Daniel Day-Lewis described Lincoln in his acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for Best Actor in Steven Spielberg’s movie, LINCOLN. The movie took the audience on President Lincoln’s journey as he sought to free the slaves and secure that freedom in

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Need an emancipation proclamation for your health?

Do you sometimes feel like a slave to disease? Or to its treatment? Or know someone who does? How do chapped lips, Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a case of poison ivy shed light on needed emancipation? Abraham Lincoln made only one visit to Michigan – to Kalamazoo in 1856. Why did he

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