"In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities."

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"In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities."

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"Smiling reduces blood pressure by lowering the stress-inducing hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. As my mother, who is now in her eighties, navigates the challenges of aging, her mantra has become, "Keep moving and keep smiling. She has observed the rapid decline of her friends who haven't. She is striving to stay strong, happy, and vital; her desire to smile is helping her to live a healthier, more satisfying, and longer life."

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"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

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"PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free."

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"The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans."

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"Distress is a disease of the mind."

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"My prescription for better health is to let go of the six things that could be destroying it-anger, regret, blame, resentment, worry, and guilt."

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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

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"Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done."

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"By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn."

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"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."

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"Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year."

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