At one point or another, nearly everyone has lived through the experience of seeing a loved one cope with sickness or a serious injury. You only have to go through that experience once to know just how much it means to have health insurance. Yet more than a quarter of a million children in Illinois do not have health insurance.

That means they may not be able to see a doctor or get medicine when they need to. When they do get medical care, it’s often in the emergency room, after a small problem has grown into a big problem. That’s wrong. Every child should be able to get medical care when they need it, before it becomes an emergency.

That’s why the Kids Medical insurance program was created, to make healthcare a reality for hundreds of thousands of families across the state. Illinois is the first state in the nation to provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance for every child. Of the 250,000 children in Illinois without health insurance, more than half come from working and middle class families who earn too much to qualify for state programs like KidCare, but not enough to afford private health insurance.

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Unless you live under a rock somewhere, You are probably aware of Oprah’s total colon cleanse. The iconic talk show hostess had tipped the scales at just this side of 200 lbs, when she decided that enough was enough. She decided to team up with an “all star” team of wellness professionals to lose weight and de-toxify her body. Her mission was certainly noble enough, but can it withstand the test of time?

So, Why A Total Colon Cleanse?

Oprah, despite her lifetime “battle of the bulge”, has always been very health conscious. Medical professionals, fitness professionals, and authors of books related to wellness are frequent visitors on her show.

One such medical professional is the highly entertaining and engaging, dr Oz. He has been an advocate of colon cleansing for many years, and a frequent visitor on Oprah’s show.

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I had never been a skinny person. My weight has gone up and down over the years, as a result of following various crazy diets that produced a week of weight loss that never lasted. I spent hundreds of dollars on these kinds of products and read every diet book in the library. But the end result was always the same, I was still fat. Then I found something different, the Acai berry.

An All Natural Supplement that didn’t break the Bank

I read about the Acai berry online one day, quite by accident. It was a small berry that came from South America that seemed to have these amazing properties that promoted easy weight loss and seemed to give people who took it all this extra energy. It cost far less than many of the products I had been spending my hard earned cash on over the years so I decided I had nothing to lose by ordering a bottle.

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