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This is a standard american diet Is there another diet

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fit for humans that can solve some of our problems

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like obesity and disease while providing us with the nutrition

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we need come with us to find out if a

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whole foods plant based diet consisting of mostly on process

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plant foods such as vegetables fruits rana seeds beans lagoons

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and whole grains khun b a viable alternative to the

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diet that has long been ubiquitous in our country Some

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scientists believe humans evolved to be natural mediators and therefore

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cannot survive on a whole foods plant based diet Let's

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take a look at the photo on the left Here

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we see a creature you'd expect to be a natural

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meat eater This is an animal that cannot survive on

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a whole foods plant based diet as we look at

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the photo on the right Well really it's ridiculous to

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think that a creature with teeth like that could be

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a natural carnivorous predator Not until about ten thousand years

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ago was the creature on the right able to figure

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out animal husbandry in a way that meat eating was

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more than just scavenging leftovers from the animal on the

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left observation aly this creature looks like a behavioral omnivore

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a creature who evolved the ability to take advantage of

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the food that was available including insects fruits leaves bark

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and leftover mastodons In other words it was very cleverly

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designed to eat anything in order to survived but not

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requiring animal foods Specifically while ancient humans might have needed

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to eat insect plant and animal foods for sheer survival

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modern american humans now have access to superior nutritional information

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on a wide variety of plant foods Foods that provide

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nutrition without thean company risk of obesity diabetes heart disease

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and cancer Human ability to eat what is available makes

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us uniquely designed to be able to replace the standard

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american diet for the whole foods plant based diet Childhood

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obesity in america can be traced to a variety of

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social problems or risk factors that combined to provide children

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with artificially calorically dense food like that found in the

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standard american diet Some environmental and cultural risk factors include

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large portion sizes of hai fat high calorie food lack

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of quality supermarkets farmer's market and community gardens as well

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as a lack of physical activity other genetic and social

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Risk factors include race and ethnicity educational attainment and socioeconomic

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status Some government authorities claim that these factors appeared to

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be interrelated and cannot be individually addressed However studies have

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shown that a whole foods plant based diet might make

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a difference in mitigating childhood obesity by increasing the availability

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of fresh produce in the populations that are most affected

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by childhood obesity Research has proven that community interventions such

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as neighborhood markets that supply fresh produce below retail prices

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as well as community gardens have been successful in combating

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childhood obesity These interventions work because when local healthy food

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consisting of fruits and vegetables are available children are more

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likely to eat them And children who eat more fruits

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and vegetables are less likely to be obese Produce markets

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and community gardens can make a whole foods plant based

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diet a feasible alternative for children living in low income

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neighborhoods battling childhood obesity caused by the standard american diet

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and its accompanying lifestyle Knowing that a whole foods plant

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based diet can deliver just the right amount of protein

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can alleviate dual concerns of plant foods not providing enough

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protein or the dangers of ingesting too much protein here

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I've created to daily menus the one on the left

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illustrates a whole foods plant based diet and the one

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on the right The standard american diet notice that i

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was careful to craft a standard american diet that omits

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fast food and sweets It is a typical dive for

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health conscious followers of the standard american diet We see

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that the whole food plant based eater won't go hungry

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yet at thirteen forty six calories and average trim woman

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won't be gaining an extra weight she's gotta complete nutritious

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day as long as she makes sure to take a

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b twelve supplement The standard american diet eater won't go

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hungry either but at seventeen twenty five calories she going

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to be packing on the pounds by eating for sixty

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one calories more than she needs a day She's got

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more fat and more protein than she'll ever need Her

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body will eliminate extra protein for urine potentially damaging her

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kidneys and liver and increasing her risk for osteoporosis and

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kidney stones From this tasty example we can include a

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whole foods plant based diet from this tasty example we

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can conclude a whole foods plant based diet can absolutely

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delivered just the right amount of protein for excellent health

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as opposed to the standard american diet The question Where

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do you get your calcium is the second most common

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question people have when considering a plant based diet based

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on what we know about the importance of calcium for

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body functions and the scary prospect of osteoporosis obtaining in

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keeping calcium in the body is a huge concern Along

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with simply ingesting calcium we need to make sure we

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capture and keep that calcium in our bones yet were

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confused by conflicting messages from the usda the dairy industry

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and scientific researchers In addition we are bombarded with messages

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about obesity maintaining a healthy weight and jesting enough fiber

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Look at this beautiful salad you never guess that it

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contains almost the same amount of calcium as a glass

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of milk yet it is a full meal As a

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matter of fact this salad with my dinner last night

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hidden among the lettuce tomatoes broccoli avocado olives and persimmon

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is a fourth cup of ross and flower seeds I

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added flavored balsamic vinegar and spices If i were concerned

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about keeping the calorie count down i would have eliminated

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The olives and avocados which contain minimal cawsey um it

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is absolutely possible that a plant based meal can deliver

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a nutritious and superior alternative to milk and other dairy

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products and i won't lie to you The salad was

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delicious with the invention of new genetically modified crops you

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might think that it is easier to follow a whole

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foods plant based diet However most genetically modified crops grow

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in the united states today are not grown for food

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and said the bulk of these crops are highly lucrative

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corn and soybean crops used for biofuel cooking oil and

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animal feed Only small portions of these crops are used

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for human conception in the form of fructose corn syrup

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cereals and other processed food processed foods and other processed

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foods Opposition to gmos has remained fierce in spite of

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many scientific studies maintaining the safety of gmos The controversy

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of whether or not jay mo's are safe has discouraged

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investment in developing foods for human consumption like rice wheat

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and potatoes Presently there are only a few genetically modified

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fruits and vegetables grown specifically for human consumption papaya sweet

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corn and squash while gmos were originally intended to address

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Feeding or ballooning population with drought and infection resistant crops

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the main consumer of jay mo's in america remains livestock

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The feasibility of jay mo's providing plenty of plant food

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to enable the whole food plant based diet to replace

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the standard american diet remains inconclusive Until science and technology

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khun proved to the american public that altering the genetics

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of crops will not make it dangerous for humans as

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a group are most important findings were perhaps the most

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surprising Well we figured that a die it like a

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whole foods plant based diet that promotes lots of fruits

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and vegetables couldn't be all that bad We had no

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idea it could be so good as they traveled through

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our research we found that although it's really interesting and

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fun to conjecture about what our ancestors ate and how

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we evolved for our purposes it really doesn't matter what

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our ancestors consume What matters is that we now have

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superior nutritional information and access to a bounty of plant

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foods that can provide us with good health We were

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surprised to find that simply providing low cost produce markets

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or community gardens to communities where affordable and nutritious food

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Is difficult to obtain could trigger measurable weight loss An

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obese children We were stunned to learn that research shows

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that by implementing a whole foods plant based diet people

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cannot just manage but cure their diabetes We feel as

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a group this is the single most important finding we

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made finally are finding that people on a whole foods

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plant based diet can more easily and just keep a

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news Calcium over dari eaters was just a surprising and

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important as are finding that people on a whole foods

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plant based diet eat less genetically modified crops than their

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cohorts On the standard american diet our team found that

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a whole foods plant based diet is a feasible alternative

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to the standard american diet And even though our ancient

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ancestors probably evolved by eating animal foods there appears to

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be no significant physiological barriers to modern humans adopting this

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diet On the contrary it appears a whole foods plant

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based diet can supply the nutrients humans need in the

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proper amounts in order to achieve and maintain good health

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and proper weight So not only is this diet a

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feasible alternative it also appears to be a superior alternative

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To the standard american diet As we end our journey

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we're left with many more questions to answer We would

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have like to learn more about how what we eat

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impacts our environment and how we plan on feeding the

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world As we continue to add people and deplete sources

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we wonder what would happen to global conflicts global obesity

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global warming global disease and global environmental issues Everyone in

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the world replaced their diet with the whole food plant

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based diet We think it's worth investigating how public awareness

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campaigns might help in the promotion of a whole foods

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plant based diet Equally as interesting would be uncovering the

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barriers to a whole foods plant based diet like family

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eating habits lack of meal planning skills and a preference

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for meat Our journey to discover whether a whole foods

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plant based diet was a feasible alternative to the standard

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american diet It was like most other adventures We had

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a great time We learned a lot and we want 00:09:31.752 --> [endTime] to come back to explore some more

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