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Nutrition: You are what you eat

The Healthy Eating Plate created by nutrition experts

Photo credit: Harvard School of Public Health

What's in your kitchen? If the answer is a bunch of snack foods, sugary sweets and soda, you may literally be digging your own grave.

Six of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. are linked to poor diets, according to the New York State Department of Health Division of Nutrition.

What many fail to realize is how dramatically our healthy and not-so-healthy choices in nutrition...

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