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If You're In A Diabetic Or Prediabetic State, It's Good To Have Medication To Go On For A Period Of Time. But Simply By Making The Changes - Get Your Sleep, 35 Grams Of Fiber And A Half-hour Walk - Your Cholesterol Will Come Down, Your Sugar Will Come Down, And Your Blood Pressure Will Come Down. Only The Minority Of People Can't Control It.

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Michael Moore

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If You're In A Diabetic Or Prediabetic State, It's Good To Have Medication To Go On For A Period Of Time. But Simply By Making The Changes - Get Your Sleep, 35 Grams Of Fiber And A Half-hour Walk - Your Cholesterol Will Come Down, Your Sugar Will Come Down, And Your Blood Pressure Will Come Down. Only The Minority Of People Can't Control It.

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I Don't Agree With The Copyright Laws And I Don't Have A Problem With People Downloading The Movie And Sharing It With People As Long As They're Not Doing It To Make A Profit Off My Labor. You Share Things With People And I Think Information, And Art, And Ideas Should Be Shared.

And Realising That Humour Is The Most Powerful Way To Make A Political Statement And Say The Things That You Want To Say. And It's Not Used Enough, At Least Not In The U.s.

Well, "the Washington Post" Three Weeks Ago Had This Investigation And They Said That President Obama Has Now Raised More Money From Wall Street And The Banks For This Election Cycle Than All - Than All Eight Republicans Combined. I Don't Want To Say That, Because If That's The Truth, That Wall Street Already Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama, Then We've Got A Much Bigger Problem.

Post-war Filmmakers Gave Us The Documentary, Rob Reiner Gave Us The Mockumentary And Moore Initiated A Third Genre, The Crockumentary.

I'm From The Midwest, And Guys Like Me Don't Go On Diets. We Don't Do Well On Spinning Classes.

This Is The Crux Of The Problem: Because The Republicans And The Right Wing Have Been Successful In Almost Eliminating Unions, Everyone Else Has Suffered As A Result.

We Are The Richest Country In The World. We Spend More On Health Care Than Any Other Country. Yet We Have The Worst Health Care In The Western World. Come On. We Can Do Better Than This.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning Deserves A Medal, Not Prison.

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One Thing I Learned As A Journalist Is That There Is At Least One Disgruntled Person In Every Workplace In America - And At Least Double That Number With A Conscience. Hard As They Try, They Simply Can't Turn Their Heads Away From An Injustice When They See One Taking Place.

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