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How can a change in your surroundings prevent illness? i hear some people say that.

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Yes: Many illnesses are associated with smoke, smog, stress, industrial waste, weather, crowding etc. If you have lllness associated with these factors, yo ucould change it by changing you surrounding appropriately.

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