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Eat more kiwis

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August 31st 2011
I have made an observation today: it’s no wonder there are less obese Chinese than Americans—they eat dried fruit for snacks and we eat fried food, chocolate, and processed sweets. Miss Li gave us some dried kiwi to try. I didn’t really like it at first, but that was probably because I had just had a few Oreos. But once I started trying more of the kiwis, I started to like them. But on to t ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more