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ANH-USA Legislative Honorees
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Effective Then, Effective Now: Jarvis, (a Vermont medical practitioner) details how to use vinegar for weight loss in 1958. Jarvis describes how “Vermont folk medicine has much to give to those . . . who prefer instead to plan to be strong, active and free from disease to the very end of their ...
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