Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz | Weight reduction Tips

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Coming up next are some basic weight reduction tips whereby I aggregated in these couple of years.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : Stay positive, and keep focused.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Weight reduction is to a more prominent degree a psychological battle than it is a physical one. Losing trust or getting discouraged is the inspiration driving why people crash and burn in shedding pounds, not in light of the fact that the weight reduction tips don’t work. Take pretty much nothing, reasonable steps. It won’t going to occur without any forethought, and propelling yourself an excessive amount of may worthy motivation you to lose trust when you don’t get the ideal outcome right away.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – In like manner, search for help from friends and family. Join some consideration gatherings and make relationship with others endeavoring to shed pounds. Encouraging groups of people are extraordinary in keeping you constructive, they are an incredible mechanism for the trading of thoughts. You can take in some remarkable weight reduction tips from others like you!

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – This point is especially basic, because discontinuously you will find some weight reduction tips won’t work for you notwithstanding the way that they work for other people. Thusly, its extraordinary to endeavor an assortment of things. Unquestionably the most principal weight reduction tips that for the most part work for everybody to probably some degree include methods for boosting your processing framework. The two most imperative things to make sure to keep your processing framework up is your degree of activity and how as often as possible you eat. Never starve yourself! Starving is a guaranteed strategy for moving back your absorption framework to a killjoy. Eat normally, anyway practice great dietary patterns. Moreover, clearly, stay dynamic! Without a doubt, even just 30 minutes of walking a day can help in boosting your processing framework.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : Control and watch each day counts calories

Everyone is scanning for some rational weight reduction tips. Despite in case you are bearing to some degree extra the inside or are fulfilling full, no one should be overweight.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – The speediest way to deal with losing those couple of extra pounds is the most crucial of all weight reduction tips: slash down your usage of sustenance. I know. I know. That is less requesting to state than to do.

In any case, various experts endorse various ways to deal with eat less sustenance without welcoming on a ton of progress in lifestyle. Those weight reduction tips about sustenance use focus on fairly changing your dietary examples. In case you are acclimated with making two cuts of toast every morning with your morning meal, hack down to one. By then if you require greater sustenance, you have to encounter all crafted by making more. You may find the extra effort does not merit the bother and you have saved a couple of calories.

Another of these weight reduction tips is to evacuate one of the reliable snack times that you may routinely have. If you normally take that ten o’clock rest with doughnut, just work through fairly more. If you require the snack break, do it. Regardless, by at that point, it is closer to lunch and you may find that you are not as excited at lunch and eat shy of what you commonly would.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : Another class of weight reduction tips incorporates changing the sustenance that we eat.

We all in all most probable need to diminish our use of sugars and fats, the weight makers. How about we be sensible in any case, a carrot will never acceptably fill in for a bit of treats in spite of the way that that is need we should eat. Regardless, there are decisions, cut down calorie decisions, to that chocolate bar. Endeavor some popcorn instead of buying that sugary treat to eat at the films. The popcorn has less calories and is all the all the more filling, satisfying your tendency to eat. That is one of my most adored weight reduction tips.

Various substitutes may consolidate arranged potato as opposed to fricasseed potatoes. In addition, clearly, the best of the weight reduction tips is maintain a strategic distance from the customary snappy sustenances that you apparently are chowing down too once in a while.

Exchange class of weight reduction tips is work out. Unreasonably various people scorn the everyday practice and organization of standard exercise programs. This is an irksome spot to give appeal. We all in all expertise basic reliable exercise is for our wellbeing and extraordinary looks. Before long, there are ways to deal with manufacture the proportion of activity we get without an extra trek to the activity place. Studies have exhibited that people who walk snappier tend to keep up their weight better to people who walk even more steadily. Get a move on when you are meandering around the strip mall.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz | Easy Tips To Whiten Your Teeth Naturally

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – A lot of people want to have whiter teeth. There are several methods out there to whiten your teeth. You can also learn what you can do to prevent your teeth from staining. This article contains a lot of tips about whitening your teeth.

Quite often, normal toothpaste has exactly the same effect as these products when used in an attempt to whiten your teeth. Ask your dentist if he or she can recommend a brand or a product for you to use.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Fresher breath sometimes equates to a whiter smile. You can see if your breath has an odor, lick a clean part of your hand or arm and smell it. If you do have an unpleasant odor you should use some mouthwash or a breath mint. The trick with mouthwash is to make sure it is alcohol-free since the alcohol can dry your mouth out.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Baking soda is still commonly used to clean teeth. Baking soda is used in toothpastes too. To get your teeth clean with baking soda, mix it with a bit of water to create a paste, then brush as you normally would. This is a very effective way to whiten your teeth at home.

Utilize strawberries to get your teeth to look whiter naturally. Strawberries have been known to produce white teeth. Cut up a strawberry and then rub it around on your teeth like a toothpaste. To get the best effect, let it stand on your teeth for about five minutes, and then brush.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : Let your dentist in on the fact that you want to whiten your teeth. A good cleaning could be all you needed to get your teeth bright and white. Ask your dentist how he feels about home teeth whitening products. This allows your dentist to examine your oral health to ensure using home whitening solutions does not prove harmful. You should delay teeth whitening in any form if you have gum disease or cavities. Begin the whitening process after those issues have been remedied.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : For an accessible and efficient home whitening option, consider whitening strips. Simply leave the strip on your teeth for the amount of time suggested by the manufacturer. Whitening strips used to be a popular teeth whitening method, but because of their bad results, their popularity has faded.

There is one exception to those who should consider teeth whitening procedures that involve bleaching: women who are pregnant or who have given birth and are nursing. During this time, your gums will be more sensitive to damage from the whitening process. These products also contain dangerous products that are harmful to you. Ideally, you should wait until after your baby is born or weaned to use these products.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Salt is a product that can be used for teeth brushing. Salt is inexpensive and is effective in taking the stains off of your teeth. Swish plenty of water after brushing to rinse your mouth thoroughly. Avoid brushing them too much as well with the salt. It is very abrasive.

Do not smoke if you want whiter teeth. Smoking will stain your teeth, and you already know it’s unhealthy. People who smoke frequently have yellowed teeth. Having a white smile while you are smoking can be very hard. Even if you cannot quit, you should try to cut down on smoking, for the sake of your teeth as well as your overall health.

Do not use mouthwash. If you are using mouthwash regularly but are still battling stains, you may consider discontinuing use. Mouthwash is made up of many harmful chemicals. Some of the ingredients can stain your teeth.

Beauty pageants offer some teeth whitening advice: use Vaseline on teeth. It won’t have a delicious taste, but the Vaseline will make a temporary barrier that protects your teeth so they don’t stain.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Make sure that your teeth are clean. It is the first step to obtaining beautiful white teeth. Unlike dyes for hair that work better in slightly dirty hair, a whitening product for teeth works the best when they’re completely clean. If you do not make sure that your teeth are as clean as possible, it could cause the whitening process to leave uneven shades on your teeth; be sure to remove all grime by flossing and brushing prior to whitening.

Having professional teeth cleaning at the dentist is an effective teeth whitening method. Cleaning done by a professional can remove a lot of the stains and tartar that have built up over time. This makes your teeth stronger and reduces your risk of developing cavities or gum disease.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – You can choose from an array of teeth whitening methods that will both prevent and treat discoloration of your teeth. Having read our article, you are now well-armed to combat tooth discoloration and enjoy a white, healthy, stain-free smile.

Dr. Dov J Berkowitz | Good Food Good Health-Salt

Dr. Dov J Berkowitz
Dr. Dov J Berkowitz

Hi everybody I am Dr. Dov J Berkowitz
Are you like me, confused from the amount of information we have been given recently about the amount of salt in our food and how it can affect our health. We are told having too much salt causes health problems but then again too little can also be detrimental to our health
Dr. Dov J Berkowitz – Salt consists of about 40 per cent sodium and is a mineral, in virtually all-basic foods – from fruits and vegetables to common tap water, sodium is present in small amounts.
Dr. Dov J Berkowitz – For maintaining good health we all do need some sodium in our diet, but too much, and especially continuous high amounts causes high blood pressure, this greatly increases the risk of developing heart disease and strokes.
I believe more and more of us are aware of these health risks due to recent media coverage, but lesser known is that it is also linked to stomach cancer and brittle bones. Water retention is also a side effect.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : The latest information we have been given is that consuming too much salt in out diet can give you ulcers, according to new research carried out. Ulcers affect one in eight people’s health in Britain, and salt has been found to help nurture the bacteria behind most stomach ulcers, leading to symptoms ranging from mild burning sensations to actually vomiting blood.
Many of these cases are caused by the Heliobacter pylori bacterium, which tricks the stomach into the over production of acid, hence causing ulcers and ill health. Researchers at the American Health Sciences University, found that high levels of salt are causing genetic changes in this bug making it all the more powerful, and warned that we should all learn about the health risks associated with too much salt.
The food Standards Agency recommends that adults should eat no more than 6g of salt, which is equivalent to around 2.5g of sodium. For children, obviously it varies with age as shown in the table below
salt sodium : Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
up to 6 months old – less than — 1g — 0.4 mg
6 – 12 months — 1g — 0.4mg
1-3 year olds — 2g — 800mg
4-6 year olds — 3g — 1.2g
7-10 year olds — 5g — 2g
Children over 11 years — 6g — 2.4g
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz : An easy way to calculate salt from sodium, is to multiply the amount of sodium by 2.5, this can be very helpful when calculating the amount of salt on some food products where labelling is confusing.
Naturally, parents should not add salt to children’s food and definitely not to babies as their kidneys are unable to process high levels of it, and in fact it has been known that too much of it has been fatal in children under the age of one.
We are becoming aware that for good health we should know exactly what salt we are consuming in our diet, but it is difficult today to know just how much as more and more people today eat ready meals and processed foods, and these products do not always have clear and precise quantities shown.
Food manufacturers are adding sodium to many types of food that we would never have dreamt contained it, or of the quantity, because apparently our palette ‘taste buds’ have changed over the years saying that consumers expect this ‘taste’ now. Our taste buds are generally a good guide to how salty our food is, but manufacturers also frequently use sugars in these foods that disguise the saltiness and fools our taste buds!
Experts now say that generally only 6 per cent of salt is actually added to food at the table, 9 per cent added while cooking and a whopping 75 per cent of all what we consume comes from processed foods and this includes bread, puddings and breakfast cereals.
Health professionals have been campaigning for clear labelling of the quantity used in the manufacturing of foods and for greater awareness of the health concerns with eating too much salt, and I hope after reading this article you will be more familiar with the health concerns attributed to high salt consumption.
So now we all need to get used to scrutinising product labels, and remember not to confuse salt with sodium when doing this. A high salt product is one with 1.5g (0.6g sodium) or higher content per 100g of product, so anything with a lower level is a much healthier choice, and obviously the lower the content all the better for your good health.
If you are a fan of the salt cellar and regularly add it to your food, the best way to cut down on this is to give your taste buds an alternative healthier flavour enhancer. There are many you can try, garlic is one, black pepper freshly ground is excellent, try using lemon juice or fresh herbs and spices to add great taste. Chilli is also another good one to try but is an acquired taste.
Another way to wean yourself of too much is to gradually reduce the amount you are adding to your food, allowing your taste buds to adjust.
Hyponatremia is a condition when someone has a lack of sodium, and when this is left untreated can cause dizziness, confusion and unexplained tiredness.
Hyponatremia is more likely to affect the elderly, especially if they are using diuretics. Diuretic drugs are used to treat problems such as high blood pressure and heart conditions, reducing the level of excess fluid in the body that can affect the essential body salt (or electrolytes) levels that are needed to maintain good health and vital functions.
Only this year a marathon runner died not long after finishing his race, and the diagnosis was due to drinking so much water, that by urinating and sweating profusely he had lost too many body salts.
So obviously there is a worry that some over zealous health conscientious people might cut down too low on salt intake and cause problems for themselves. Eating a healthy balanced diet is always best for good health.
So like myself now, do not forget to make it a habit to read your food product labels including bread whether you purchase it from a bakery or supermarket as it is always included in the ingredients, to make sure you are only eating the healthy required amount. I know this can be confusing and tedious but it is for our advantage.

Dov J Berkowitz | Weight loss Tips

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Weight loss is a basic issue in today’s general public with obesity on the increase and individuals at long last acknowledging what being overweight is doing to their bodies, their well being and in the end their ways of life.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz

Dov J Berkowitz – Weight loss is useful for some conditions. It is of genuine advantage in diabetes, hypertension, shortness of breath, joint issues and raised cholesterol.
Weight loss is conceivable with exercise and sound dinners alone, yet including great quality protein and building incline bulk will help you lose all the more rapidly, helping you to keep the weight off and stay solid.
Weight loss is essentially ensured on the off chance that one adheres to the controls of the eating regimen.
Dr. Dov J Berkowitz – Weight loss essentials: eat a larger number of calories than you utilize and you’ll put on weight; utilize more than you eat and you’ll lose it. Weight loss is presently an objective which can be come to truly effectively in the event that we adhere to a preparation administration, abstain from food arrange. Be that as it may, for a few, surgery might be the main trust.
Surgical procedures have advanced in the course of recent decades, and most are compelling, as in they do normally prompt significant weight reduction.
Dr. Dov J Berkowitz – In any case, all specialists do concur that the most ideal approach to keep up weight loss is to take after a healthy way of life. Whichever approach you lean toward, the way to long haul achievement is a moderate consistent weight loss. It is demonstrated that it is essential prepare yourself up mentally for your weight loss journey and the way of life changes you are going to experience.
For people who are morbidly obese, surgery to sidestep parts of the stomach and small digestive system may now and again be the main successful method for creating maintained and noteworthy weight loss.
The essential factor in accomplishing and keeping up weight loss is a long lasting responsibility to general exercise and sensible dietary patterns. You will find that all levels of your life are enhanced with weight loss which brings you so much individual fulfillment.
In the event that dietary patterns are not totally and for all time changed, the Weight loss gave by an eating regimen is not going to keep going long. On the off chance that you experience the ill effects of, or think you may experience the ill effects of, a therapeutic condition you ought to counsel your specialist before beginning a Weight loss and/or exercise administration.
Drinking water is a standout among the most fast weight loss tips that dieticians propose to individuals and prompts 100+ calories additional blazed a day. Each twenty soda pops you skip from your typical admission likens to around one pound of weight reduction.
Fasting: While fasting has real influence in a few eating methodologies, it is by and large not prescribed for safe weight loss.
Diet
Dietitians are nutritionists who work straightforwardly with customers or patients in regards to their healthful needs. Abstaining from food lessens your caloric admission however practicing helps you blaze more calories. Eat less carbs Weight misfortune is fundamental if corpulence is available. Consuming less calories is simpler than you ever envisioned. On a veggie lover eat less carbs, weight loss shouldn’t be an issue.
A very much adjusted diminished calorie abstain from food containing moderate fat is suggested. The consideration of various types of organic products into weight loss eating methodologies is a sound method for managing starvation, and additionally giving the body those supplements and vitamins it needs to work legitimately.
Exercise While You Diet: Weight loss is about lessening your caloric admission while you increment the calories you smolder. Above all else choose how much weight you need to lose, and set yourself a sensible target, preferably with the assistance of your dietitian or specialist.
A diet that works for a few people does not work for others. A solid breakfast is one of the key components of a sound eating routine and noteworthy weight reduction. Most trend eating regimens, if took after nearly, will bring about Weight loss as an aftereffect of caloric confinement.
In addition, health food nuts who neglect to embrace better exercise and dietary patterns will recover the shed pounds and potentially more. As it starts, a lot of water will be shed, driving the calorie counter to imagine that huge weight decrease is occurring.
Counsel your specialist, for any well-being issue and before utilizing any supplements, rolling out dietary improvements, or before rolling out any improvements in endorsed meds.
A great part of the early Weight loss on a low calorie eat less speaks to loss of muscle tissue instead of loss of fat.
Upwards of 85% of calorie counters who don’t exercise all the time recover their shed pounds inside two years. Over and over losing and recapturing weight (yo-yo counting calories) urges the body to store fat and may expand a patient’s danger of creating coronary illness.
Eating three adjusted, direct parcel dinners a day-with the fundamental supper at early afternoon is a more powerful approach to anticipate corpulence than fasting or crash diets, which persuade the body that there is a progressing starvation. Advanced medication has discovered approaches to augment our life expectancy through dietary limitation.
For your wellbeing, dependably counsel your specialist before making any noteworthy dietary, nourishing or way of life changes. The American Heart Association (AHA) for the most part suggests an eating regimen with under 30% fat.
Individual’s way of life, sustenance inclinations, readiness capacities, nibble propensities, longings, and so on, ought to all be considered when building up a dietary arrangement. It is vital that the sustenance instructor tailor the eating routine to the person instead of receiving a “one-measure fits-all” approach. After weight reduction, bring down fat eating methodologies might be the best. For a great many people, being overweight is an aftereffect of a deficient measure of work out, a lacking way of life routine and an inadequately adjusted eating routine.
Most high-fiber nourishment are additionally high in water and low in calories, making them must-have eat less carbs sustenances. Dissolvable fiber can bring down cholesterol; insoluble contains inedible strands that add mass to our weight control plans.
A few specialists trust health food nuts have better control on the off chance that they eat a few smaller than expected suppers for the duration of the day. Exercise and an adjusted eating regimen are the key considers fat misfortune and weight decrease.
Drinking water is a standout among the fastest Weight loss tips that dieticians propose to individuals and prompts 100+ calories additional blazed a day.
A definitive tip to inevitable achievement: standard exercise and an adjusted eating regimen. Add one cheat day to your eating routine to free yourself of yearnings.
Eat a sound eating regimen loaded with bunches of vegetables, organic products, and entire grain items.
Fasting: While fasting has significant influence in a few eating regimens, it is for the most part not prescribed for safe weight reduction.
Surgery – Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
In any case, for some in this circumstance, Weight loss surgery is the main trust. One of the soonest structures was gastric sidestep surgery. There are numerous types of surgery nowadays and all have upsides and downsides.
There are still generous dangers, notwithstanding, as with any significant surgery. For the individuals who trust surgery is the best alternative, counseling with an accomplished doctor is crucial.
For people who are beefy beyond belief, surgery to sidestep parts of the stomach and small digestive tract may on occasion be the main compelling method for delivering maintained and critical weight reduction.
Such weight surgery, in any case, can be dangerous, and it is performed just on patients for whom different techniques have fizzled and whose stoutness genuinely undermines wellbeing. In the event that break hernia side effects are perpetual and don’t react to eating regimen and pharmaceutical, surgery may get to be vital.
Today, most specialists choose to perform laparoscopic surgery, since it is negligibly obtrusive and recuperation time is lessened.
Blaze – Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
On the off chance that you envision yourself shedding pounds and consuming calories amid typical every day action, you will get in shape and muscle to fat quotients. It cellularly affects the body, bringing on fat cells to discharge their put away fat to be copied as vitality. The nourishment you eat amid the day ought to be scorched off through movement.
Exercise While You Diet: Weight misfortune is about lessening your caloric admission while you increment the calories you smolder. Eating less lessens your caloric admission however practicing helps you blaze more calories.
We as a whole realize that to accomplish a sound Weight loss we have to blaze a larger number of calories than what we take in. Exercise expands the metabolic rate by making muscle, which blazes a greater number of calories than fat.
At the point when general exercise is consolidated with predictable, stimulating dinners, calories keep on burning at a quickened rate for a few hours. Calories smoldered relying upon your action level.
Not just fats give a feeling of completion, eating a sufficient sound fat called omega-3 unsaturated fats may bring about your digestion system to smolder fat all the more productively. On the off chance that your weight stays steady, you are most likely taking in similar measure of calories you smolder every day.
In case you’re gradually putting on weight after some time, it is likely that your caloric admission is more prominent than the quantity of calories you smolder through your day by day exercises.
The quantity of calories we blaze every day is reliant upon our basal metabolic rate (BMR), the quantity of calories we smolder every hour essentially by being alive and keeping up body capacities and our level of physical movement.
Our weight likewise assumes a part in deciding what number of calories we blaze very still – more calories are required to keep up your body in its present express, the more prominent your body weight. Somebody whose employment includes overwhelming physical work will actually blaze a greater number of calories in a day than somebody who sits at a work area the vast majority of the day (an inactive occupation).
For individuals who don’t have occupations that require extraordinary physical action, exercise or expanded physical movement can build the quantity of calories blazed.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – To lose one pound, you should blaze roughly 3500 calories well beyond what you as of now smolder doing every day exercises. Utilize a calorie adding machine to make sense of what number of calories you smolder while sitting, standing, working out, lifting weights, and so on. In case you’re eating less calories than you’re blazing, you’ll shed pounds.SHARE

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz | Health Tips For Healthy Life

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Your health is very important to you. In fact, next to your mind, it is the only thing you actually really own, or have a solid claim on. Money and power can disappear, but your health will stay with you. So, if you have good health, good for you. If you fail to take care of your health, there are bound to be problems in the future. There is an Arabian saying, “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Health tips available on the internet today help you have an idea of how you can start watching your health. First, make sure you move about a lot. Take the stairs more often, not the elevator. If you have children, make a point of playing with them more often, including the ball throwing games that adults tend to stay away from because they are tiring.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Another health tip is that you should cut down on the amount of fat you take into your body through food. Burgers, fried foods and meats that contain a lot of fat are the prime suspects. As for dairy products, try and find the ones that come in versions with lowered fat content.
Quitting smoking is probably a health tip that you have heard repeated to you many times by the media and other organs. The most challenging thing you can do as a smoker is to give up the next cigarette. Tough but totally worth it.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Drinking eight glasses of water daily is a good health tip.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz | Good Health Tips

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Good health shouldn’t be taken for granted. One will never realize how important it is until it’s gone. Hence, it’s critical for us to take care of our health. We should make sure that we keep our bodies as healthy as possible for us not to develop any unwanted diseases in the future. Take a look into these good health tips to get you on the road to a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz

Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Good health tip #1: Stop complaining and start moving.Computers, televisions and video games keep us glued to our seats. It often results for us to become less physical than ever before. We tend to forget that we must move most of the time and start exercising regularly. Even ten minutes of walking can help our body get in shape.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Good health tip #2: Water’s good for you.Water is one of the basic things of life. To keep our body well-hydrated, be sure to drink lots of water. If you don’t, you’ll be dehydrated. It could lead to fatigue and what’s worse, you could have malfunction of kidneys. And just one more thing, alcohol isn’t water. Just drink it occasionally otherwise you could develop a liver disease.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Good health tip #3: Cessation of smoking is a must.Smoking has been one of the main factors of lung cancer. I just can’t imagine how millions of people are still drawn to smoking. If you care about your health, then you must definitely stop. You may find it hard to quit but you could start gradually. If you’re used to smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day; reduce it to 2 packs and so on.
Dr. Dov Jay Berkowitz – Good health tip #4: Have a medical check-up yearly.Some don’t like to have their bodies checked because they’re afraid of what the doctors will tell them. That’s the point. Medical examinations are necessary to help diagnose any potential diseases such as an impending cancer or diabetes. Do what’s good for you before it’s too late.

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