Statement attributable to:
Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D.
President, American Medical Association

“The physicians of America are outraged that a group of Republican senators followed the direction of the Bush Administration and voted to protect health insurance companies at the expense of America’s seniors, disabled and military families.
“These senators leave for their 4th of July picnics knowing that […]

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Submitted by a Let Life In subscriber
A gallon of gas is not necessarily a gallon of gas. Here’s how to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have […]

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By Jason Rase

Both love and sex keep a relationship going. Love between two individuals cannot achieve fulfillment without sex and having sex with no feeling of love for your partner has no meaning at all. So, you have to keep both of them alive. How can you do that? Here are our suggestions:
1. Always […]

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Thanks to those wonderful “educational” emails I have received, I now sit in a darkened room, by myself, and do nothing.
Submitted by Ray Meyers
I just want to thank all of you for your educational emails over the past year.

Thanks to you, I no longer open a public bathroom door without using a paper towel.
I can’t […]

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By Elaine Williams

When my husband was diagnosed with esophagus cancer, we never talked about him dying, except in the very beginning. I think we were afraid to voice the worst scenario we could think of, him not making it through this disease.
He refused to consider taking the traditional route in medicine, which was chemotherapy and […]

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“Good grief!” George screamed. “We’re swimming in raw sewage.”
During the summer of the 1947, two neighborhood friends, Roger and George, took me to the “dam,” a kid’s swimming hole not known to everyone in our small midwestern town. It was built […]

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By Joel Block, Ph .D.

Studies have shown that people who have high self-esteem live longer, healthier lives, continue to enjoy sex throughout their lives, and are more optimistic about the future. At midlife, most of us suffer an occasional blow to our esteem. We look in the mirror and recoil at the image of our […]

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Imagine you had $3 trillion? How old would you have to be to spend it all? It boggles the mind. Here’s our attempt to un-boggle it.
The cost of the war in Iraq is conservatively estimated to reach 3 trillion dollars. Not being a trillionaire myself, the number seems abstract and a little hard to […]

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By Joel Block

“The Wrong Schwartz” is the debut novel of Dr. Joel Block, the ‘Let Life In’ love and relationships editor. It is a powerful story about a relationship between father and son.

Here is an excerpt. The son begins by speaking in first person:

I learned about mental toughness through the dictate […]

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By Dennis Martin Altman
Book Review by Gary Geyer
 
The author of ‘The First Liberal says, put “Love thy Neighbor” on the money.
The First Liberal starts with the intriguing sentence, “Jesus invented Liberalism on the day he said, ‘Love thy neighbor.’” The book traces how Jesus’ teachings have come down to us not only in Biblical […]

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