If you are desperately struggling with a big waistline that just keeps getting bigger (even though you are not eating any more) I know just what you’re going through.
I used to have the same problem most of my life, even though I’m a nutritionist. The usual dieting methods didn’t really help my waistline/ tummy area. As I got older the problem became worse. One day I said ‘enough!’ I began a quest to find out why tummy fat is so different. I found out such extraordinary information that I wrote a book about it.
About Me
I’m the author of seven books on health and nutrition. I’ve appeared on radio and TV in the UK and founded the British Association for Nutritional Therapy. I’ve also successfully treated hundreds of clients referred to me by doctors.
To flatten my stomach, did I live on lettuce and carrots, and spend every evening working out on my living room floor? NO.
I already know that stuff doesn’t work
You end up feeling so hungry and deprived that you become obsessive about food, binge as soon as you’ve lost a few pounds and the weight all comes straight back. I’m not really into exercising either – I have good intentions for a while then get bored and it all falls by the wayside.
To develop my new program I spent many months on research and collaboration with experts. Then I added some naturopathic techniques of my own that you won’t have seen in a weight loss plan before.
Here’s The Programme
1. First of all, a great new tummy exercise. No time commitment is required, as it’s a cool technique of walking which powerfully works out your tummy muscles at the same time!
2. You need to avoid a rather nasty ingredient that’s in hundreds of processed foods and affects your hormones, making you turn a lot of your food into belly fat straight away. Even most nutritionists aren’t aware of these new facts as the food industry keeps them pretty quiet. Balancing the hormones that control belly fat really is now the key to keeping a slim waistline, and I’ll be giving you plenty of advice on the latest ways to achieve that.
3. I also recommend that you avoid so-called ‘diet foods’. The artificial sweeteners found in most of these foods are appetite stimulants. They make you hungry and give you food cravings. (Another fact that’s kept quiet by the food industry…)
4. Get rid of hidden bloating. (If you get a lot of gas even when you haven’t eaten beans, you are probably a victim of hidden bloating.) My special internal cleansing routine to tackle bloating has been under development for several years and is being published for the very first time. It’s a drink that you take every evening, and worked absolute wonders for me – I hope you’ll love it too!
5. Hidden water retention is another potential cause of an expanded waistline. After my UK bestseller the Waterfall Diet was published in 1999 I got a reputation as the guru of water retention. Hundreds of people who followed the Waterfall Diet have lost 10 lbs or more of water weight. The record was 25 lbs in 26 days. Linda’sFlat Stomach Secrets programme includes natural methods to help tackle several causes of water retention.
All you have to do is
Learn a simple exercise that you can do while walking, sitting at your desk, in the car or even while watching TV,
Follow a diet that won’t leave you feeling hungry,
Consume a special cleansing drink every evening.
You will learn some amazing new facts that will help you keep your figure as time goes by. Believe me, after you’ve read this book you’ll agree that ordinary diets, including even the low-carb and GI variety, are on the way out. If you’re not truly amazed by all the great new information in this E-book, I’ll give you your money back.
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Linda is the author of seven books on natural health and weight loss, including her UK bestseller the Waterfall Diet, Treat Yourself with Nutritional Therapy, the Big Healthy Soup Diet, and her latest book Linda’s Flat Stomach Secrets. She is the founder of the British Association for Nutritional Therapy, and former nutrition editor of the International Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. Linda worked for three years for the British National Health service, helping many people referred to her by doctors who were convinced that her methods were more successful than prescription medicines alone. Her work has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and TV programmes in the UK.
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From time to time I get enquiries from people on soy-free diets, asking about alternatives to soy.
Although the Waterfall Diet list of Yes foods does include soy, it is by no means a compulsory item. Soy milk, tofu and soy yoghurt are great for vegetarians seeking a good protein alternative to meat and dairy products. They are also beneficial in many ways for adult women, but they do not have to be consumed.
However the Waterfall Diet does exclude cows’ milk, so I will suggest some alternatives for those who are not able to use soy milk as a substitute.
1. Sheep and goat’s milk and yoghurt. These are becoming easier to find in supermarkets and health food stores.
2. Nut and rice milk. These are found in health food stores and in larger supermarkets. They can be quite expensive, and their palatability varies a lot. The Rice Dream brand is very good, and includes a variety flavoured with almonds and hazelnuts.
3. Oat milk. Worth experimenting with. I have personally not tried it, so would be interested to get feedback on whether it is good with gluten-free cereals, for instance.
4. Fruit juice. Some cereals can be pleasant with fruit juice instead of milk.
NB: You should not rely on any plant-derived milk as a good source of protein. Meat, fish and poultry are good protein sources. You can also get high quality protein by mixing ground-up or grated nuts (e.g. Brazils, cashews, pecans, hazelnuts) into bean or lentil soup, or combining them with mashed beans to make patties.
Water retention is common in pregnancy and can have many causes, including anaemia (anemia) which is not always an iron-deficiency anaemia. The Waterfall Diet is safe to follow in pregnancy, with the exception of any recommended herbs. Many herbal medicines are contra-indicated in pregnancy. To be on the safe side, even parsley should be used only in the normal way as a food flavouring, and not consumed as a tea or taken as a medicine.
Raspberry Leaf Tea
One herb which has definitely stood the test of time and is universally recommended by natural health practitioners for use during the last three months of pregnancy is raspberry leaf tea. You can drink raspberry leaf tea up to three times daily. It helps to tone the muscles of the uterus and aid a painless, easy delivery. It also promotes milk production.
Gentle Diuretics
Many fruit and vegetable juices such as those made from cucumber, watermelon, watercress, horseradish, carrot and celery have gentle diuretic properties. Cornsilk tea is also gentle and, according to Bartram, is suitable to help prevent swollen ankles in the later stages of pregnancy. Cornsilk is the silky strands found under the green outer sheath of a head of sweetcorn (maize).
Don’t forget to help blood flow by
Lying on your left side
Walking around from time to time instead of sitting still
Putting your feet up
Don’t cross your legs
If you can’t find raspberry leaf tea or corn silk tea locally, you can order them online:
I’m not an expert on anorexia. The advice I give to those who ask me for help aims most of all to be good common sense.
First, you need to think about why you have anorexia. The more honest anorexics I’ve spoken to admit it’s their way of feeling in control. And it’s also got a lot to do with having an addictive and maybe a compulsive personality.
Self-expression
Many people with anorexia are using it as a way of expressing themselves. Just like when you were angry with your mum as a small child and the only way you could manipulate her was by refusing to eat.
A woman with anorexia (let’s call her “Lisa”) worked in my office once. She was secretive about it, covering up her arms and legs so that I couldn’t see how thin she was. Lisa had issues with being told what to do. Whenever I asked her to do filing work, which she felt was beneath her because it was a job I never did myself, she never openly objected, but she would do it very sloppily.
It turned out that Lisa’s way of expressing her objections was by not eating. One day she very pointedly asked me to unscrew a jar for her. I unscrewed it very easily and she used this as an opportunity to say “I think you’ve probably realised there’s something wrong, haven’t you.” I didn’t really know what she was talking about, but I said yes anyway to encourage her to talk.
“The fact is, I’ve suffered from anorexia for a long time, and it’s got much worse since I’ve been working for you. I’m finding that the filing work is really making it worse, so could you maybe do that instead of me?”
Manipulation
Yes, it was childish manipulation and I wasn’t having any of it. But how sad it was to be stuck at that level of emotional development. When you have such a distorted way of looking at the world maybe it is very tempting, in a world where thin = beautiful, to take your habit just that little bit further until it becomes compulsive.
Some anorexics who claim to be recovering do not really have any intention of doing so. They approach nutritionists for help, not with eating more, but with coping with the side effects of malnutrition. For instance “Is there a vitamin pill I can take to give me more energy?” or “I’ve put on a lot of weight due to water retention because of my anorexia. What should I do to get rid of it?”
If you’re determined
If you’re really determined to get better, people around you will always be glad to help. Yes, it’s scary to eat normally – you think you’re going to look like Pavarotti the minute you eat a potato chip or a piece of steak. But you will not get rid of this mindset unless you throw down your defences and come out of isolation. A really good step is to join a group like the Eating Disorders Association or its US equivalent. Psychotherapy can also help. Try to make friends with people who eat sensibly. Ask them for help and copy what they eat. If they are not overweight then if you eat the same as them you won’t get overweight either. It’s hard at first as your appetite will be small, but perseverance will reap its rewards.
Here’s a picture of a starving child. The tummy is swollen with water retention caused by protein deficiency. I don’t want to be harsh but I think voluntary self-starvation is an insult to children like this who are dying because they cannot get enough food.
Back in the 1980′s I trained as a Nutritional Therapist. I learned all about recommending balanced diets, vitamins and minerals, weight loss programs, and helping people with problems like irritable bowel and chronic tiredness.
But when I started working as a practitioner, I found that helping people to lose weight wasn’t as easy as I’d been led to believe. The people who consulted me had already tried every imaginable diet. They’d done low-calorie, detox, low-fat, low-carb, food-combining; dieting plus jogging and swimming, dieting plus gym. But they were still overweight. Many had been turned away by their doctor. I heard tearful, angry stories that “My doctor more or less accused me of stuffing myself with chocolate”. One woman was on the verge of desperation, eating less than 1,000 calories a day, jogging for half an hour every morning and going to the gym twice a week. But she still weighed 180 lbs and her weight was still slowly creeping upwards.
I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to let people down. I believed my clients when they told me they were working hard at their dieting; but that meant I had to discover something for them that hadn’t been part of my training.
My Quest Begins
One thing that a lot of my clients seemed to have in common was that their weight would go up and down quite dramatically in the course of a single day. Some would also complain of problems like swollen knees or painful breasts. Some had been diagnosed with arthritis and were on long-term painkillers. Others had tight and bloated tummies. I wondered if they could be suffering from hidden water retention. I asked them if their doctor had mentioned this, but everyone said “No”.
But this was all I had to go on. Only water retention can make someone’s weight go up and down by 4-5 pounds in the course of a single day. I started looking for all the information I could find to do with water retention. This was in the days before the Internet was around. Whenever I could I would travel to the Science Reference Library in central London, and spend a day finding out everything I could about water retention and its causes. This is a giant library, with thousands of medical journals going back many decades.
An Amazing Discovery
After several visits I made a truly stunning discovery. There are two very distinct types of water retention. Like most health professionals, I was familiar with one type, which is the swelling caused by a tired heart or faulty kidneys. In these cases there is too much water in the blood as well as in the tissues. This kind of problem is best treated with diuretics – medicines which stimulate your kidneys to work harder.
But then I discovered that there was another type of water retention. Like the first type, this can cause bloating, or swollen legs and ankles but may also be distributed all over the body, causing general weight gain. This is sometimes known as “idiopathic edema”, which means edema of unknown cause. I prefer to call it “Type 2 water retention“.
What Causes Type 2 Water Retention?
Fired with excitement, I trawled through hundreds of volumes of the “Index Medicus” looking for medical articles which might give me clues. It soon became clear that with Type 2 water retention, there is not necessarily a lot of water in the blood. In fact it is possible for your tissues to be bloated with water, and yet for your blood to be dehydrated. Some doctors warn that with this type of water retention it could be damaging to take diuretics.
Water is constantly being exchanged between your smallest blood vessels, and the spaces between your cells. Water collects in your tissues when it leaves your blood to bathe your cells but cannot get back again. As it collects in your tissue spaces, your body gradually expands (and gets heavier).
My next task was to find out why the water doesn’t return. One reason is congestion of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic vessels should act like an “overflow” to return it. But they can get overloaded.
Another important factor is histamine. If you’ve ever had a rash, insect bite or hay fever, you know that histamine makes your tissues swell up with water. That’s because histamine makes your smallest blood vessels leaky. If your whole body is making too much histamine, water leaks out of your blood and may stay in your tissue spaces.
Too much histamine in your kidneys is very damaging. Scientists in France have been researching how histamine and inflammation in the kidneys can be triggered by abnormal reactions to foods. This type of kidney problem is known as Nephrotic Syndrome. It becomes very hard to urinate, and your body swells up with water.
Type 2 water retention can also be caused by eating a Very Low Calorie Diet. One of my clients (“Barbara”) was a vegetarian who had been dieting on and off since she was 13 years old. When she consulted me, she was 24, and weighed 175 lbs. Her total food intake was truly shocking: a grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast, a dry cracker with lettuce and tomato for lunch (no dressing), and plain steamed vegetables for dinner. She ate nothing else at all…. ever, but still her weight was slowly creeping up.
All in all, I found seven separate causes of tissue water retention. The sad fact is that so many people with water retention don’t realise their problem is water. They think it’s fat, and go on a fat-loss diet. Then they end up eating too few calories and so their water retention problem gets worse. They may lose a bit of weight at first, but then the weight-loss levels out and they can’t get any further.
I Design The Waterfall Diet
Taking into account all these seven causes of water retention, I put together a plan of action that could get rid of as many of these causes as possible. First you have to identify which of the causes apply to you, and this involves a procedure to find your “safe foods”. I tried the program on my clients, and was truly amazed at the results. “Jennifer” started Phase I of the program on Thursday June 12th 1997 and I had no idea what result what we would get. But when she returned on Thursday June 26th Jennifer told me the wonderful news that she had lost 14 lbs in 10 days. “After about 2 days I just started urinating constantly” she said. “My bladder was always full, but my clothes started getting looser.” The many trips to the bathroom eased off around the 7th day, but the water and the excess weight did not return.
I wondered what should I call the program. In view of the trips to the bathroom “The Waterfall Diet” seemed most appropriate. Soon I had tested it on many more clients, written down all the details, and my book entitled The Waterfall Diet was published in 1999 and instantly became a best-seller in the UK.
Does The Diet Work for Everyone?
If your weight goes up and down by more than a pound or two in the space of a single day, then water retention is a definite possibility. But I don’t want to get your hopes up unduly. Not everyone will lose 14 lbs in just a week. About 30 per cent of people with Type 2 water retention lose 10 lbs in 7-10 days on this diet. You might be retaining just a couple of pounds of water, but that couple of pounds could be cooling down your metabolism and preventing fat loss.
Another benefit of the Waterfall Diet is it can help to confirm whether or not your tissues are retaining water. If you follow the diet carefully without achieving any water loss, then (if your doctor agrees) you probably don’t have water retention.
If you want to try the Waterfall Diet, the book is available from Amazon.com or from Amazon.co.uk, or you can download an E-guide.
One of the most frequently asked questions about the Waterfall Diet is “Where can I get potassium salt?”
It used to be readily available from health food stores in the UK under the name “Ruthmol”. But just after the publication of the Waterfall Diet, the company that used to make this product was taken over by another company, which discontinued it.
Fortunately now that the UK government is recommending a reduction in sodium consumption (sodium is the main component of salt) the food industry has started making potassium salt products again. These are known as “salt substitutes”, and the following brands are available in health food stores and supermarkets:
United Kingdom
“No Salt” (from Prewett) or “Salt Rite”.
United States
“Also Salt” or “Morton Salt”.
Please do use them sparingly. Like sodium-based salt, potassium salt also has a high chloride content.
Some readers will note that there is a discrepancy between the first two editions of the Waterfall Diet, and the 3rd edition, which will be published in January 2010.
The discrepancy concerns the length of time allowed for Phase I of the diet. This was previously two months and has been reduced to four weeks.
The book also says that if you have serious problems with keeping to the diet for this amount of time, you can reduce Phase I to two weeks before proceeding to Phase II (testing). However it does also say that this is not ideal, because Phase I is not just for allergy testing, it also aims to give your body a rest from all the usual dietary stressors with a view to improving your metabolism.
In order to help as many people as possible I was torn between recommending the ideal (two months) and what most people would see as a more manageable target.
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In This Issue
New Blog
Waterfall Diet Book New Edition
Stress Can Make You Fat
Herb: Butchers Broom
Strategy For Food Cravings
Tips For Reducing Alcohol
WATERFALL DIET BOOK – New Edition published January 2010. This has three new chapters, dealing with water retention in legs and ankles, water retention in pregnancy, tummy fat and water, and holistic remedies for water retention. The diet section is hopefully now much clearer and starts with a proper seven-day meal plan.
Some important new research in the new edition:
1. STRESS CAN MAKE YOU FAT
When you are under stress all the time, you are constantly producing too much cortisol (a hormone produced by your adrenal glands). Cortisol not only suppresses your immune system and gives you water retention, it also reduces the power of most of your other hormones (including thyroid) and makes you accumulate fat around your middle. Wow.. If you’re developing middle-age spread it could be time to take up meditation as well as running and swimming!
2. BUTCHERS BROOM: This is now known to be one of the best herbs to take for swollen legs. But it’s not suitable for use during pregnancy (which, unfortunately, is a major cause of swollen legs). Ordinary orange peel (including the white pithy part) is rich in the flavonoid hesperidin, which has been used to good effect along with Butchers Broom in clinical trials. You only need to eat a bit every day, so shred it finely and add to desserts or whizz it into some fresh orange juice.
FOOD CRAVINGS
A major cause of overweight! We all know what it’s like to even consider doing without our favourite foods – Aaaagh…!
I’ve used a helpful technique on myself and with my clients for many years. Let’s take chocolate (many people’s downfall!) as the first example. Here are the Don’ts:
1. Don’t keep it in the house.
2. Don’t keep it in the house.
3. Don’t keep it in the house.
Now that is clear (I hope…), here are the ‘Do’s':
1. Do decide on your chocolate ration. E.g. instead of 1 medium bar once a day, decide on one medium bar once a week.
2. You may already have a favourite chocolate brand, but now you are going to look for an expensive, luxury brand instead, that you can only buy if you travel some distance to a special shop. Find one that you like as much as (or preferably more) than your usual brand.
3. On the allocated Treat Day, travel to the special shop, buy exactly the ration you have decided on, and no more. You can eat it whenever you want.
4. During the rest of the week, a hot chocolate drink can help you feel that you’ve had a treat. I make mine by whisking a teaspoon of cocoa powder into a cup of hot rice milk. It’s not the real thing but if you’re determined to let it take your mind off your cravings then it will. Ready-made hot chocolate powders tend to be high in sugar so try to use pure cocoa powder for this. Rice milk and almond milk are naturally sweet.
IS ALCOHOL YOUR DOWNFALL?
For most people, going out with friends means consuming a lot of drinks with them. Don’t forget there are lots of brands of alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer. Wine can be mixed with sparkling mineral water to make a spritzer. At home, it’s too tempting to finish off a bottle of wine just to avoid wasting it. So buy half-bottles instead of full bottles.
PERSONAL SUPPORT
Many people have quite a number of questions, which is only natural, but owing to the sheer numbers involved it is impossible to provide a free service to answer them all! Now I’m available to write you a personal Health & Diet Programme. There’s a special introductory rate so don’t delay too long. http://www.health-diets.net/lindalazarides/consultations.html.
If you are looking for nutritional and herbal supplements, these are my hand-picked personal recommendations from the US
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Miscellaneous Products
Waterfall Diet Aids
Jarrow Formulas: An advanced range of supplements, suitable for people with allergies and sensitivities. I love this company’s cutting edge approach and use several of their products for my own personal health.
Yogi Teas: Many of these teas are organic. There are some very tasty formulas which can make a substantial contribution to a nutrition programme, especially those with orange peel, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and other digestion-enhancing and yang-boosting spices.
Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice: Liquorice supplements are both soothing and healing for the digestive system, a good tonic for the adrenal glands, and in clinical trials have helped to reduce internal abdominal fat.
Organic Egyptian Licorice Tea: Liquorice is naturally sweet, good for the adrenal glands and soothing for the digestion. This tea could form a good base for adding some of the herbal tinctures mentioned on this page.
L-Tyrosine 500 mg: amino acid support for the thyroid gland. Tyrosine is not easily found in food and must be made by the body. Taking a supplement is an insurance policy in case this process is not fully efficient.
Raspberry Leaf Tea: medical herbalists recommend this tea for all pregnant women. It helps to tone the muscles of the uterus, aid delivery and promote milk production.
1. Women’s Support, 2. Healthy Menopause, 3. Black Cohosh Plus: No. 1 is a general women’s formula. Nos. 2 and 3 are more specifically for the menopause. No. 3 contains only three herbs, while No. 2 has smaller amounts of a wider variety of herbs. If you are having a difficult menopause I would suggest you experiment with Nos. 2 and 3. I would love to know how you get on with them.
Vision Support: a good and comprehensive eye health supplement.
Horsetail (alcohol-free tincture): In a study by Dr. Louis Kervran, rats with broken bones healed twice as fast when given silica compared with those given calcium. It’s well worth googling him and you may come to the same conclusion as I did: that silica (especially if taken with magnesium) is a better mineral to prevent osteoporosis than calcium. The herb horsetail is a very rich source of silica.
Goat Milk-Based Acidophilus: If you are sensitive to dairy products, you will be glad to know about this alternative Acidophilus supplement.
Cat’s Claw Liquid Extract: Cat’s Claw (Una de Gato) is an immune-boosting herb “par excellence”. Add a few drops to herbal tea.
Gotu Kola (alcohol-free tincture): This herb is also good for small blood vessels and has been shown to reduce the appearance of cellulite. Add a few drops to herbal tea.
Red Clover Tincture: rich in coumarin, which helps macrophages break down proteins in the tissue spaces. Add a few drops to herbal tea.
Jarrow Bromelain 1000: bromelain, an extract from pineapples, has been tested on injured athletes. Its helpful effects are thought to be due to its ability to break down proteins in the tissue spaces. Also used as a digestive aid.
Organic Classic India Spice Tea: a spice tea combination which helps to boost yang energy in the body. In Traditional Chinese Medicine yang tonics are said to drive away excess fluid.
Corn Silk (alcohol-free tincture): Corn silk tea is made from the silky strands found inside the green outer sheath of a cob of Indian Corn. It has been traditionally used as a diuretic which is gentle enough to be drunk in pregnancy. Add a few drops of the tincture to hot water.
Agnus Castus: Also known as “chaste tree” this herb helps the body to produce progesterone so can be a useful aid to prevent the condition known as “estrogen dominance”.
Cellulite Massage Cream: if you try this one, I’d be interested to know what results you get.
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If you are looking for nutritional and herbal supplements, these are my hand-picked personal recommendations from the UK All product names are clickable if you want to order them (supplied at competitive prices by Amazon.co.uk)
BioCare Agnus Castus, Motherwort, Red Clover This is a gentle women’s health formula. Agnus castus is known to support the body’s production of progesterone, which is often too low when women have hormonal issues.
Floradix Horsetail Fresh Plant Juice In a study by Dr. Louis Kervran, rats with broken bones healed twice as fast when given silica compared with those given calcium. It’s well worth googling him and you may come to the same conclusion as I did: that silica (especially if taken with magnesium) is a better supplement for maintaining bone strength than calcium. The herb horsetail is a very rich source of silica.
Lepicol Whole Psyllium Husks I always recommend whole psyllium husks rather than powdered. They are much easier to stir into water. Psyllium can absorb up to 100 times its volume of water and is an excellent fibre supplement for bowel health.
Lamberts Glucosamine Sulphate You will need to take two of these a day to get the 1500 mg recommended by scientists for joint health.
Lamberts Glucosamine and Chondroitin Some say that glucosamine is more effective when combined with chondroitin – another important component of cartilage.
Nanny Care Goat Milk Infant Nutrition 900g There is a question mark over the safety of soy milk infant formulas for babies. If your baby is intolerant to cow’s milk, goat’s milk formula may be the answer. Contact Vitacare for more information.
FSC Gotu Kola Extract Tincture This herb is also good for small blood vessels and has been shown to reduce the appearance of cellulite. Add a few drops to herbal tea.
BioCare Red Clover Extract Red clover is rich in coumarin, which helps macrophages break down proteins in the tissue spaces.
Higher Nature Bromelain Bromelain, an extract from pineapples, has been tested on injured athletes. Its helpful effects are thought to be due to its ability to break down proteins in the tissue spaces. Also used as a digestive aid.
Pukka Clarity Tea A spice tea combination which helps to boost yang energy in the body. In Traditional Chinese Medicine yang tonics are said to drive away excess fluid.
Lamberts Magnesium Citrate tablets Magnesium citrate is a very well-absorbed form of magnesium. I take this product myself almost every day.
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