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Eating healthy, keeping the alcohol consumption low, and exercising have been must-dos for me. Whenever I've felt I need an exercise pick-me-up, I binge watch The World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji. It makes the virus just seem like a pimple on the arse of life.

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