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Simply put, the tens of millions of Americans with MSK conditions don't have to "tough it out."

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Bonafede agreed to continue the performance after he was assaulted because of the “tough it out” culture of the exhibition, the suit says, but suffered for years from emotional distress, and his mental health, body image and career were damaged as a result.

“You think you can tough it out.”

Julius Hunter, a program coordinator with San Antonio’s Diabetes Prevention and Control program, said some of that can be attributed to culture: Males, he said, are programmed from an early age to “tough it out,” and tend to ignore cuts and lesions that may be a telltale sign of serious diabetes problems, even after being told they have the disease.

Despite my many protests of a weak stomach, Mom argued that we couldn’t afford takeout and insisted we tough it out.

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