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The number of U.S. households reporting difficulty securing adequate food has soared. That Thanksgiving is tomorrow underscores this disturbing news. According to a survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 14.6 percent reported struggling last year to put meals on the table. The figure represents 49 million people, far more than in the previous year, and the highest percentage charted since the government began keeping track, in 1995. Though experts anticipated an increase, many said they were surprised by the size of it. With high unemployment persisting, today’s numbers may well be even worse.

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Doctors would jab sharp instruments into King Henry VIII’s arm and drain blood out of his body. The best medical minds of the 16th Century prescribed bloodletting as a means to “rebalance the body’s humors,” the spring equinox being the ideal time. Henry didn’t argue with his physicians. After all, Tudor England had the best health-care system in the world.

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