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	<title>Piercing and Tattoo News</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Migration &#8216;fuelling rise in Hepatitis B&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/migration-fuelling-rise-in-hepatitis-b-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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&#171;chat.dailymail.co.uk&#187; Have your say Which is the best tool to help a smoker to quit? 
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- Hypnotherapy/acupuncture
- NHS smoking helpline/support group  
Soaring rates of Hepatitis B have been fuelled by a new wave of immigration, specialists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s couch potato children are now among the fattest in Europe</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/britains-couch-potato-children-are-now-among-the-fattest-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/britains-couch-potato-children-are-now-among-the-fattest-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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British children are among the worst in a Europe-wide obesity league table, with around a third weighing more than they should. 
A couch potato lifestyle and a growing appetite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China finds problems with kids&#8217; snacks</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-103/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-103/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children&#8217;s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday. 
China&#8217;s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is the right time to take your pills?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/when-is-the-right-time-to-take-your-pills/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/when-is-the-right-time-to-take-your-pills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have your say Does alternative medicine do more harm than good? 
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While millions take medication every day, few of us pay much attention to the time of day we pop our pills. 
Yet new research shows that timing is key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milk campaign under fire ending</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/milk-campaign-under-fire-ending-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/milk-campaign-under-fire-ending-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - An ad campaign that suggested milk can help people lose weight is ending, the Federal Trade Commission told a doctors group that had complained.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine contended the weight loss claims were false and misleading. The group, in a 2005 petition, asked the commission to order a halt to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China plans new oral care regulations</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-plans-new-oral-care-regulations-88/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-plans-new-oral-care-regulations-88/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers&#8217; use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze. 
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you allergic to Teflon?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/are-you-allergic-to-teflon-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/are-you-allergic-to-teflon-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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A chemical found in Teflon non-stick coatings could raise the risk of allergies, researchers have said. 
The scientists claim the product may prime the immune system to overreact to allergy triggers, or allergens, such as dust mites or animal hair. 
Lab mice given the chemical - perfluoro-octanoic acid - before being exposed to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV ad for heart stent faces questions</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/tv-ad-for-heart-stent-faces-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/tv-ad-for-heart-stent-faces-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A television advertisement for a heart stent that promotes the products potential benefits but seems to play down the medical risks may deceive the public and should be reviewed by federal regulators, according to a commentary in The New England Journal ofMedicine. 
The 60-second ad for the Cypher stent, made by the Cordis subsidiary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China quake disaster set off by colliding land masses</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-quake-disaster-set-off-by-colliding-land-masses/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-quake-disaster-set-off-by-colliding-land-masses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China on Monday was a result of a continuing collision between India andAsia. 
India, once a giant island before crashing into the underside of Asia about 40 million to 50 million years ago, continues to slide north at a geologically quick pace of two inches a year. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government says China&#8217;s food safety issues under control</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/government-says-chinas-food-safety-issues-under-control-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/government-says-chinas-food-safety-issues-under-control-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  China played down international concerns about tainted food exports on Tuesday, saying the problems were not as bad as reported and displaying seized counterfeit products to show authorities were enforcing safety protections. 
To make its case, the government organized a rare visit by more than 100 foreign and domestic reporters to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Gastric bypass reduces death risk in the morbidly obese</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-gastric-bypass-reduces-death-risk-in-the-morbidly-obese-34/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-gastric-bypass-reduces-death-risk-in-the-morbidly-obese-34/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severely obese people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years following the procedure than similarly heavy people who don&#8217;t have the operation, according to two studies in today&#8217;s New England Journal of Medicine. 
Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine examined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laying Waste to the Deep Sea</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/laying-waste-to-the-deep-sea-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/laying-waste-to-the-deep-sea-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ken Stier 
Far out on the high seas, on any given day, hundreds of fishing vessels drag huge nets, big enough to snag a 747 jumbo jet, across the ocean bottom, vacuuming up 150-year-old fish, flattening ancient reefs and destroying everything else in their paths. 
Only the biodiversity of tropical rainforests rivals that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memory training can improve intelligence, research shows</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/memory-training-can-improve-intelligence-research-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/memory-training-can-improve-intelligence-research-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. 
Until now, it had been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience Д what psychologists call fluid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoo Expo hits Fresno</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/tattoo_and_decorations/tattoo-expo-hits-fresno/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/tattoo_and_decorations/tattoo-expo-hits-fresno/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that tattoo&#8217;s were the staple of society&#8217;s rebels, those who liked to live on the edge and weren&#8217;t shy about showing it. But in recent years that seems to have changed; tattooing has gone mainstream.
For anyone in the market for a tattoo, the Fresno Tattoo Expo was the place to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoos: permanent part of student body</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/tattoo_and_decorations/tattoos-permanent-part-of-student-body/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/tattoo_and_decorations/tattoos-permanent-part-of-student-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tattoos are a permanent form of body art that have existed for hundreds of years. However, in recent years, they have dropped their tough-biker stereotype and gained popularity among younger crowds, namely college-age individuals.
A number of Geneseo students are inked.
&#8220;I like how people with tattoos look,&#8221; said junior Elena Kurz, who has six tattoos herself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body art makes job hunt harder</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/body-art-makes-job-hunt-harder/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/body-art-makes-job-hunt-harder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What rebellious rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll and bell-bottom jeans were to the kids of the 60s, the art of body piercing and tattooing is to today&#8217;s youth.
According to a 2006 survey by Pew Research Center, 36 percent of Americans aged 18 to 25 - 40 percent aged 26 to 40 - have at least one tattoo. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare providers who discuss intimate piercings earn patients&#8217; trust</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/healthcare-providers-who-discuss-intimate-piercings-earn-patients-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/healthcare-providers-who-discuss-intimate-piercings-earn-patients-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients with genital and nipple piercings, also known as &#8216;intimate piercings,&#8217; are best served by healthcare providers who initiate positive discussions about them, according to a new article in the journal Nursing for Women&#8217;s Health.
Yet, too often, such discussions do not occur, even when treating infections and other conditions related to the piercings, due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School acts on piercings</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/school-acts-on-piercings/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/school-acts-on-piercings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Evesham schoolgirl has been banned from the classroom less than a month before she is due to sit important exams - for breaching a school ban on body piercings.
Becky Hirons, 14, of Shepherd&#8217;s Pool, was initially sent home from school last week after the Easter break, when a teacher spotted a tongue piercing. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GCSE girl with facial piercing not allowed to attend lessons</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/gcse-girl-with-facial-piercing-not-allowed-to-attend-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/piercing_news/gcse-girl-with-facial-piercing-not-allowed-to-attend-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A schoolgirl who is due to sit her GCSEs in two weeks has been banned from lessons after refusing to remove a facial piercing.
Georgia Bell, 16, who attends Highdown School, was told by teachers yesterday she was unwelcome in the classroom unless the piercing above her lip, done five weeks ago during the school holidays, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Considering a Tattoo, Read This</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/if-youre-considering-a-tattoo-read-this/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/if-youre-considering-a-tattoo-read-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tattoos may deposit more than color underneath the skin. Like car paint pigments. And lead.
These are just a couple of the substances that scientists have discovered taint some tattoo inks, raising safety concerns over the widely popular but loosely regulated industry. &#8220;Consumers should be aware of the fact that we really don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP: Nutrition education ineffective</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ap-nutrition-education-ineffective-100/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ap-nutrition-education-ineffective-100/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PANORAMA CITY, Calif.  The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education Д fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well. 
But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A great pox&#8217;s greatest feat: Staying alive</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/a-great-poxs-greatest-feat-staying-alive-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The findings were hardly earth-shaking. They dealt with an obscure bacterial infection found in an equally obscure group of natives in Guyana. Nonetheless, they made headlines. 
Why? Because the disease was syphilis. The new research suggested that syphilis originated as a skin ailment in South America, and then spread to Europe, where it became sexually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AGs urge crackdown on energy drink claims</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ags-urge-crackdown-on-energy-drink-claims-38/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ags-urge-crackdown-on-energy-drink-claims-38/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)  Beverage companies that sell alcoholic energy drinks were harshly criticized Tuesday by more than two dozen state attorneys general who want federal officials to examine the ingredients and marketing of the drinks they say are aimed at underage customers. 
In a letter to John Manfreda, the administrator of the federal Alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A great pox&#8217;s greatest feat: Staying alive</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/a-great-poxs-greatest-feat-staying-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/a-great-poxs-greatest-feat-staying-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The findings were hardly earth-shaking. They dealt with an obscure bacterial infection found in an equally obscure group of natives in Guyana. Nonetheless, they made headlines. 
Why? Because the disease was syphilis. The new research suggested that syphilis originated as a skin ailment in South America, and then spread to Europe, where it became sexually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Signs of autism show earlier in some children</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-signs-of-autism-show-earlier-in-some-children-99/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-signs-of-autism-show-earlier-in-some-children-99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children with autism can be identified as early as 14 months old, the youngest age at which the disorder has been diagnosed, a study by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore suggests. 
But about half the time, symptoms may not show up until months later. That suggests at least two distinct paths leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-5/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin. 
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press. 
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slimmer Thighs for Summer</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/slimmer-thighs-for-summer-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring has sprung. Its time to put away those bulky clothes and flash a little flesh! If you need a little help shedding those extra pounds, http://www.ediets.com/news/go.cfm to see what eDiets has to offer and choose from over 20 fantastic customizable plans. 
 Summer is right around the corner and its time to help you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China plans new oral care regulations</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-plans-new-oral-care-regulations-87/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers&#8217; use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze. 
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-4/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin. 
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press. 
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AGs urge crackdown on energy drink claims</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ags-urge-crackdown-on-energy-drink-claims-37/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/ags-urge-crackdown-on-energy-drink-claims-37/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)  Beverage companies that sell alcoholic energy drinks were harshly criticized Tuesday by more than two dozen state attorneys general who want federal officials to examine the ingredients and marketing of the drinks they say are aimed at underage customers. 
In a letter to John Manfreda, the administrator of the federal Alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dermcidin gene in cancer: role in cachexia, carcinogenesis and tumour cell survival.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-dermcidin-gene-in-cancer-role-in-cachexia-carcinogenesis-and-tumour-cell-survival/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-dermcidin-gene-in-cancer-role-in-cachexia-carcinogenesis-and-tumour-cell-survival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dermcidin gene in cancer: role in cachexia, carcinogenesis and tumour cell survival. 
Anabolic and catabolic signals Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 11(3):208-213, May 2008.
Stewart, Grant D a; Skipworth, Richard JE a; Ross, James A a; Fearon, Kenneth CH a; Baracos, Vickie E b 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: The diverse protein products of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin. 
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press. 
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational modeling of cancer cachexia.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/computational-modeling-of-cancer-cachexia-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/computational-modeling-of-cancer-cachexia-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computational modeling of cancer cachexia. 
Anabolic and catabolic signals Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 11(3):214-221, May 2008.
Hall, Kevin D a; Baracos, Vickie E b 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: Measurements of whole-body energy expenditure, body composition, and in-vivo metabolic fluxes are required to quantitatively understand involuntary weight loss in cancer cachexia. Such studies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut-price IVF for the women who donate their eggs for research</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/cut-price-ivf-for-the-women-who-donate-their-eggs-for-research-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/cut-price-ivf-for-the-women-who-donate-their-eggs-for-research-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#171;chat.dailymail.co.uk&#187; 
Childless women are to be offered cut-price fertility treatment if they donate eggs for cloning research. 
The unique deal is being paid for by the Government-funded Medical Research Council which says alternative schemes have all failed. 
It will now meet half the cost of a course, around 1,500, in return for half the eggs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin. 
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press. 
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Save the World by 2015?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/can-we-save-the-world-by-2015-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/can-we-save-the-world-by-2015-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bryan Walsh 
If international leaders were as united as the scientific community on climate change, warming might be a thing of the past. This year the UN&#8217;s Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a series of reports that laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real  and outlined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soluble vs. insoluble fiber: Which is more important?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/soluble-vs-insoluble-fiber-which-is-more-important/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/soluble-vs-insoluble-fiber-which-is-more-important/#comments</comments>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. I know that I should get about 30 grams of fiber a day. What I don&#8217;t know is how much of this fiber should be soluble and how much should be insoluble. What is the exact difference between the two? Is there any difference in how these different fibers are used by the body? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Make Your Diet Healthier (for the Planet)</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/five-ways-to-make-your-diet-healthier-for-the-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/five-ways-to-make-your-diet-healthier-for-the-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 22 will be the 36th anniversary of &#171;www.earthday.net&#187;. Have you ever stopped to think about how your dietary choices affect the health of our planet? Sure, buying organic products helps reduce the amount of pesticides and artificial fertilizers that are applied to the ground. But what about the environmental impact of transporting organic produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational modeling of cancer cachexia.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/computational-modeling-of-cancer-cachexia-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computational modeling of cancer cachexia. 
Anabolic and catabolic signals Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 11(3):214-221, May 2008.
Hall, Kevin D a; Baracos, Vickie E b 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: Measurements of whole-body energy expenditure, body composition, and in-vivo metabolic fluxes are required to quantitatively understand involuntary weight loss in cancer cachexia. Such studies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational modeling of cancer cachexia.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/computational-modeling-of-cancer-cachexia/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/computational-modeling-of-cancer-cachexia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computational modeling of cancer cachexia. 
Anabolic and catabolic signals Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 11(3):214-221, May 2008.
Hall, Kevin D a; Baracos, Vickie E b 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: Measurements of whole-body energy expenditure, body composition, and in-vivo metabolic fluxes are required to quantitatively understand involuntary weight loss in cancer cachexia. Such studies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quieting the inner demons and giving art a voice</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/quieting-the-inner-demons-and-giving-art-a-voice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher. 299 pages. $25. Houghton Mifflin. 
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process. Edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D. 200 pages. $21.95 Johns Hopkins Press. 
Marya Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer: humorous, articulate and self-aware. She is also, as she has now documented in two books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China finds problems with kids&#8217; snacks</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-102/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-102/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children&#8217;s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday. 
China&#8217;s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a varied diet over-rated?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/is-a-varied-diet-over-rated/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/is-a-varied-diet-over-rated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a very interesting session this morning at the &#171;www.nutritionandhealthconf.org&#187; that I&#8217;m attending here in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Daphne Miller, a professor of medicine at University of California at San Francisco, gave a presentation on her new book, &#171;www.amazon.com&#187; 
Over the past ten years, scientists have spent a lot of energy investigating the world&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living moment by moment: the cancer sufferer who refuses to give up</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/living-moment-by-moment-the-cancer-sufferer-who-refuses-to-give-up/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/living-moment-by-moment-the-cancer-sufferer-who-refuses-to-give-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have your say Does alternative medicine do more harm than good? 
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Adrian Sudbury was just 26 and looking forward to starting a family when hewas struck down by an aggressive form of leukaemia, which has halved his life expectancy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric pulse stimulation awakens man barely conscious for 5 years</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/electric-pulse-stimulation-awakens-man-barely-conscious-for-5-years-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/electric-pulse-stimulation-awakens-man-barely-conscious-for-5-years-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses of electric current, neuroscientists are reporting. 
&#8220;I still cry every time I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leucine-enriched nutrients and the regulation of mammalian target of rapamycin signalling and human skeletal muscle protein synthesis.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/leucine-enriched-nutrients-and-the-regulation-of-mammalian-target-of-rapamycin-signalling-and-human-skeletal-muscle-protein-synthesis/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/leucine-enriched-nutrients-and-the-regulation-of-mammalian-target-of-rapamycin-signalling-and-human-skeletal-muscle-protein-synthesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leucine-enriched nutrients and the regulation of mammalian target of rapamycin signalling and human skeletal muscle protein synthesis. 
Anabolic and catabolic signals Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 11(3):222-226, May 2008.
Drummond, Micah J; Rasmussen, Blake B 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: To highlight recent studies that have examined the cell-signalling mechanisms responsible for the amino acid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina brought a wave of Hispanics</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/katrina-brought-a-wave-of-hispanics-33/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/katrina-brought-a-wave-of-hispanics-33/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS  For proof that Hurricane Katrina is transforming the ethnic flavor of New Orleans Д and creating altogether new tensions Д look no further than the taco trucks. 
Lunch trucks serving Latin American fare are appearing around New Orleans, catering to the immigrant laborers who streamed into the city in search of work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food as sunscreen</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/food-as-sunscreen-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/food-as-sunscreen-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Now that the warmer weather has arrived, it&#8217;s time to remind everyone that applying a good sunscreen before heading outdoors will reduce your risk of skin cancer and prevent premature skin aging. Foods such as avocados and tomatoes can also help protect your skin&#8211;but I&#8217;m not suggesting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immunogenicity of Helicobacter pylori Urease B Protein and DNA Vaccines in a Mouse Model.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/immunogenicity-of-helicobacter-pylori-urease-b-protein-and-dna-vaccines-in-a-mouse-model-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/immunogenicity-of-helicobacter-pylori-urease-b-protein-and-dna-vaccines-in-a-mouse-model-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immunogenicity of Helicobacter pylori Urease B Protein and DNA Vaccines in a Mouse Model. 
Short Communications Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology &#038; Nutrition. 45(4):493-496, October 2007.
Begue, Rodolfo E *,+; Cruz, Alma R +; Ramgoolam, Andres *; Breslin, Mary B *,+ 
Abstract:
A vaccine could alleviate major morbidity and mortality associated with Helicobacter pylori infection. We immunized BALB/c [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s &#8217;caused by brain getting stuck in reverse&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/alzheimers-caused-by-brain-getting-stuck-in-reverse/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/alzheimers-caused-by-brain-getting-stuck-in-reverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have your say Do you suffer from back pain? 
- Yes - frequently
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Scientists believe they have found the key to understanding how Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (AD) causes profound memory loss. 
The normal forgetting process constantly &#8216;cleans up&#8217; our memories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find the gene that can help you to fidget yourself thin</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/scientists-find-the-gene-that-can-help-you-to-fidget-yourself-thin-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/scientists-find-the-gene-that-can-help-you-to-fidget-yourself-thin-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://chat.dailymail.co.uk/dailymail/threadnonInd.jsp?forum=108&#038;thread=9769519&#038;message=11998201 
Constantly fidgeting? If so there&#8217;s a chance your genes could be responsible - and the good news is you are less likely to be fat. 
Scientists say they have identified a gene that explains why some people burn off calories by simply swinging their legs under a table or drumming their fingers. 
It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One in four U.S. teenage girls have STD&#8217;s, study finds</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/one-in-four-us-teenage-girls-have-stds-study-finds-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/one-in-four-us-teenage-girls-have-stds-study-finds-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first national study in the United States of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported. 
Nearly half the blacks in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors say Lincoln had severe smallpox</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/doctors-say-lincoln-had-severe-smallpox-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/doctors-say-lincoln-had-severe-smallpox-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO (AP)  Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. 
Physicians in Baltimore said last week that Lincoln might have survived being shot if today&#8217;s medical technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists developing new liver drug that reverses damage of binge drinking</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/scientists-developing-new-liver-drug-that-reverses-damage-of-binge-drinking-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/scientists-developing-new-liver-drug-that-reverses-damage-of-binge-drinking-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists are developing a cure for cirrhosis of the liver, the scarring caused by severe alcohol abuse, bringing new hope for help heavy drinkers who struggle to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better options than Frappuccino</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/better-options-than-frappuccino-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/better-options-than-frappuccino-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks Iced Drinks: Watch what you Drink in the Summer Months 
Written by Elizabeth Daeninck, MS, RD
Published in May 2007 
The warmer weather brings with it the desire for fancy frosted drinks, cool iced lattes, and sweet iced teas. You may think of these refreshing drinks as a harmless way to help quench your desire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does baking with flax seed ruin the omega-3s?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/does-baking-with-flax-seed-ruin-the-omega-3s/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/does-baking-with-flax-seed-ruin-the-omega-3s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. I know that the fatty acids in flaxseed can quickly become rancid when exposed to air. (That&#8217;s why you&#8217;re supposed to grind them right before you use them.) But can baking with flaxseed destroy the valuable omega-3 fats they contain? 
A. You&#8217;re right that some polyunsaturated fats, such as the omega-3 fats in flax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to green your plate!</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/time-to-green-your-plate/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/time-to-green-your-plate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not you go in for the wearin&#8217; o&#8217; the green on March 17th, you should definitely plan to decorate your plate with lots of early Spring greens like arugula, baby spinach, and the other leafy greens that should be showing up soon at your local farmer&#8217;s market. 
The season&#8217;s first crops are nutritional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China finds problems with kids&#8217; snacks</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-101/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/china-finds-problems-with-kids-snacks-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP)  Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children&#8217;s snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday. 
China&#8217;s dismal health and safety record Д both within and outside its borders Д has increasingly come under the spotlight as its goods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong closes schools amid flu outbreak</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/hong-kong-closes-schools-amid-flu-outbreak/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/hong-kong-closes-schools-amid-flu-outbreak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG: The Hong Kong government on Wednesday ordered all kindergartens and primary schools to close for two weeks amid a growing flu outbreak. 
It also asked one of its top scientists to study the deaths of three children over the past week. 
Health secretary York Chow said Yuen Kwok-yung, who helped study Hong Kongs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston University Medical Center Researcher Honored By The Institute For Functional Medicine</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/boston-university-medical-center-researcher-honored-by-the-institute-for-functional-medicine-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/boston-university-medical-center-researcher-honored-by-the-institute-for-functional-medicine-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, was recently awarded the 2007 Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine. Holick, an internationally recognized expert in vitamin D and skin research, received the award for decades of pioneering work that elucidated the important role vitamin D plays in a wide variety of chronic health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fitness: On the Other End of the Line, Discipline</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/fitness-on-the-other-end-of-the-line-discipline-4/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/fitness-on-the-other-end-of-the-line-discipline-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[МCLOSE your eyes, breathe deeply, and imagine yourself at your most well. What does it look like?Н 
The voice on the other end of the phone belonged to neither a guru nor my primary doctor, but to a wellness coach, and the question wasnЙt rhetorical. The coach, Dr. Julie Desch of Palo Alto, Calif., wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perforated Peptic Ulcer in Children: A 20-year Experience.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/perforated-peptic-ulcer-in-children-a-20-year-experience-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/perforated-peptic-ulcer-in-children-a-20-year-experience-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perforated Peptic Ulcer in Children: A 20-year Experience. 
Original Articles Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology &#038; Nutrition. 45(1):71-74, July 2007.
Hua, Man-Chin *; Kong, Man-Shan +; Lai, Ming-Wei +; Luo, Chih-Cheng ++ 
Abstract:
Background: Although the detection of pediatric peptic ulcer disease (PUD) has recently been increasing, perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) in children is rare. We report our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity rates climb in most states</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/obesity-rates-climb-in-most-states-13/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/obesity-rates-climb-in-most-states-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)  Loosen the belt buckle another notch America: Obesity rates continued their climb in 31 states last year. No state showed a decline. 
Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30% barrier for adults considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabama were just behind, according to the Trust for America&#8217;s Health, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car crashes deadlier for younger teenagers</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/car-crashes-deadlier-for-younger-teenagers/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/car-crashes-deadlier-for-younger-teenagers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children in their early teens are more likely to be killed in a car accident than younger children are, a new U.S. study finds. 
Writing in the March issue of The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, researchers said they saw a big change in fatality rates after age 12. The researchers, led by Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Prevention, Treatment Methods For Patients With Painful Bowel Inflammation</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/new-prevention-treatment-methods-for-patients-with-painful-bowel-inflammation-4/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/new-prevention-treatment-methods-for-patients-with-painful-bowel-inflammation-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is an umbrella term referring to a group of disorders that cause inflammation of the intestines, including ulcerative colitis, diverticular disease and perianal fistula. Nearly one million Americans experience some form of IBD every year, which is often chronic or recurring. Research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2007 (DDW) looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubling Doses Of Vitamin A Does Not Help Mothers And Children</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/doubling-doses-of-vitamin-a-does-not-help-mothers-and-children-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/doubling-doses-of-vitamin-a-does-not-help-mothers-and-children-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giving mothers and children in developing countries twice the WHO recommended doses of vitamin A, as suggested by an international vitamin group, does not have a beneficial effect. The findings are reported in an Article published in this week&#8217;s edition of The Lancet. 
Providing vitamin A supplementation in countries where there is a deficiency of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Health: Some With MS Put Their Hopes in a Diet</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/personal-health-some-with-ms-put-their-hopes-in-a-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What you are about to read is not an endorsement of any particular &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187; as a therapy for &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187;. Nor is it a suggestion to forgo established medical treatments. 
But so long as it is part of a medically approved treatment program, the diet described here is unlikely to hurt, except perhaps to make meal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role of an Intestinal Rehabilitation Program in the Treatment of Advanced Intestinal Failure.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/role-of-an-intestinal-rehabilitation-program-in-the-treatment-of-advanced-intestinal-failure-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/role-of-an-intestinal-rehabilitation-program-in-the-treatment-of-advanced-intestinal-failure-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Role of an Intestinal Rehabilitation Program in the Treatment of Advanced Intestinal Failure. 
Original Articles Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology &#038; Nutrition. 45(2):204-212, August 2007.
Torres, Clarivet; Sudan, Debra; Vanderhoof, Jon; Grant, Wendy; Botha, Jean; Raynor, Stephen; Langnas, Alan 
Abstract:
Objective: To analyze outcomes in children with intestinal failure treated by our Intestinal Rehabilitation Program (IRP) in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study links sicknesses to day-care equipment</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-links-sicknesses-to-day-care-equipment-105/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-links-sicknesses-to-day-care-equipment-105/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)  Fewer children and workers at out-of-home day care centers would get sick if the centers had better equipment for changing diapers, washing hands and preparing food, according to a study. 
Automatic faucets and foot-activated, rollout bins for diaper disposal can help reduce the spread of infectious diseases. But those and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Native Americans can trace ancestry to just 6 women</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/most-native-americans-can-trace-ancestry-to-just-6-women-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/most-native-americans-can-trace-ancestry-to-just-6-women-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK: Nearly all of todays Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. 
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TB patient questions CDC&#8217;s actions</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/tb-patient-questions-cdcs-actions-62/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/tb-patient-questions-cdcs-actions-62/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA  The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health incident in May said Friday he was tricked into a federal quarantine. 
Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney, he would have gladly gone into isolation if health officials had asked him to. Instead, he said they asked him to swing by a New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Really?: The Claim: Identical Twins Have Identical DNA</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/really-the-claim-identical-twins-have-identical-dna/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/really-the-claim-identical-twins-have-identical-dna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE FACTS 
It is a basic tenet of human biology, taught in grade schools everywhere: Identical &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187; come from the same fertilized egg and, thus, share identical genetic profiles. 
But according to new research, though identical twins share very similar genes, identical they are not. The discovery opens a new understanding of why two people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oropharyngeal dysphagia and nutritional management.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/oropharyngeal-dysphagia-and-nutritional-management-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/oropharyngeal-dysphagia-and-nutritional-management-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oropharyngeal dysphagia and nutritional management. 
Nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 10(5):611-614, September 2007.
Logemann, Jeri A 
Abstract:
Purpose of review: This review examines recent studies of the evaluation and treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia as well as papers investigating oropharyngeal dysphagia and nutritional management.
Recent findings: There continue to be difficulties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: People doubt feds&#8217; ability to handle disease outbreak</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/poll-people-doubt-feds-ability-to-handle-disease-outbreak-70/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/poll-people-doubt-feds-ability-to-handle-disease-outbreak-70/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON  The public has little faith the government is adequately screening visitors to the country or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP-Ipsos poll. 
Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the U.S., the poll found. Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors&#8217; Response to Letter.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/authors-response-to-letter-16/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/authors-response-to-letter-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authors&#8217; Response to Letter. 
Letters to the Editor Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology &#038; Nutrition. 45(1):133-134, July 2007.
Albano, Fabio MD, PhD; Szajewska, Hania MD
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		<title>Avandia users seek answers</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/avandia-users-seek-answers-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/avandia-users-seek-answers-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people with type 2 diabetes are wondering whether to keep taking their medication now that a new report suggests Avandia, a pill widely used to help control blood sugar, can raise heart attack risk. 
As of Tuesday afternoon, the American Diabetes Association had fielded 70 calls from patients with questions spurred by publicity about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Native Americans can trace ancestry to just 6 women</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/most-native-americans-can-trace-ancestry-to-just-6-women/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/most-native-americans-can-trace-ancestry-to-just-6-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK: Nearly all of todays Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. 
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MRSA screening &#8216;does not stop infection spreading&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/mrsa-screening-does-not-stop-infection-spreading/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/mrsa-screening-does-not-stop-infection-spreading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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The government strategy to battle MRSA at hospitals by screening patients has been called into question by a study which suggests it does not stop the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spacecraft swings past Mercury</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/spacecraft-swings-past-mercury-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: The Messenger spacecraft dashed past Mercury on Monday, getting a glance at the solar systems innermost planet, which it will eventually orbit for detailed studies. 
The robot spacecraft, the first to visit the planet in more than three decades, passed about 124 miles above Mercurys cratered surface before continuing on a path that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well: An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/well-an-enduring-measure-of-fitness-the-simple-push-up/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/well-an-enduring-measure-of-fitness-the-simple-push-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up. 
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187;. 
МIt takes strength to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Protecting Bone Health, Dietary Calcium Better Than Supplements</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/for-protecting-bone-health-dietary-calcium-better-than-supplements-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/for-protecting-bone-health-dietary-calcium-better-than-supplements-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women who get most of their daily calcium from food have healthier bones than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Surprisingly, this is true even though the supplement takers have higher average calcium intake. 
Adequate calcium is important to prevent osteoporosis, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, MSG, the Secret Behind the Savor</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/yes-msg-the-secret-behind-the-savor-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/yes-msg-the-secret-behind-the-savor-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction Appended 
IN 1968 a Chinese-American physician wrote a rather lighthearted letter to The &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187;. He had experienced numbness, &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187; and weakness after eating in Chinese restaurants in the United States, and wondered whether the monosodium glutamate used by cooks here (and then rarely used by cooks in China) might be to blame. 
The consequences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breast cancer gene breakthrough &#8216;could halt disease from spreading&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/breast-cancer-gene-breakthrough-could-halt-disease-from-spreading/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/breast-cancer-gene-breakthrough-could-halt-disease-from-spreading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have your say Do you suffer from back pain? 
- Yes - frequently
- Yes - occasionally
- No  
 Boards &#038; chat Can magnets ease shoulder pain?
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Breast cancer patients could soon benefit from a treatment that appears to halt the disease in its tracks. 
Scientists have pinpointed a key gene, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyzing recipes on ND: how to make your results more accurate</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/analyzing-recipes-on-nd-how-to-make-your-results-more-accurate-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/analyzing-recipes-on-nd-how-to-make-your-results-more-accurate-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. I am using ND to analyze the nutritional content of some of the recipes I make at home. But I&#8217;m not always sure which entry from the database to select. For example, if I&#8217;m analyzing a soup recipe that contains carrots, should I select the listing for raw or cooked carrots? 
A. That&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Many using online &#8216;rogue pharmacies&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-many-using-online-rogue-pharmacies-43/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/study-many-using-online-rogue-pharmacies-43/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)  Drug shipments from illegal online pharmacies were once so frequent in Appalachia that delivery companies had to add trucks to their routes. 
Police have cracked down on such deliveries, but are still confronted by a booming global network of so-called rogue pharmacies operating online. 
RELATED: &#171;www.usatoday.com&#187; 
For people addicted to prescription [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Insights Into Contradictory Health Effects Of Bioflavonoids</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/new-insights-into-contradictory-health-effects-of-bioflavonoids-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/new-insights-into-contradictory-health-effects-of-bioflavonoids-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an advance toward understanding the contradictory health effects of bioflavonoids, scientists in Tennessee are reporting that these natural components of fruits and vegetables poison a key human enzyme critical for the normal function of DNA. The research is scheduled for publication in the May 22 issue of ACS&#8217; Biochemistry, a weekly journal. 
Neil Osheroff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vital Signs: Perceptions: Watch Your Weight, Sure, but DonЙt Worry About It</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/vital-signs-perceptions-watch-your-weight-sure-but-don%d0%b9t-worry-about-it-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/vital-signs-perceptions-watch-your-weight-sure-but-don%d0%b9t-worry-about-it-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worrying about weighing too much may be bad for you, no matter how much you actually weigh. 
Using results from a telephone health survey run by the &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187;, researchers analyzed data on more than 170,000 men and women nationwide. Among other information about health and lifestyle, all reported height and weight, how much they would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Parkinson&#8217;s drugs create obsessions?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/do-parkinsons-drugs-create-obsessions-26/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/do-parkinsons-drugs-create-obsessions-26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago, neurologist Mark Stacy encountered a strange problem with two of his patients. 
Both men had Parkinson&#8217;s disease, and they suddenly developed an out-of-control urge to gamble. Both maxed out their credit cards and lost $60,000 in just a few short months. 
Stacy realized that the gambling sprees started just after he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dial-a-GP blunder cost this girl her life, as her meningitis was diagnosed as flu</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/dial-a-gp-blunder-cost-this-girl-her-life-as-her-meningitis-was-diagnosed-as-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/dial-a-gp-blunder-cost-this-girl-her-life-as-her-meningitis-was-diagnosed-as-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have your say Do you suffer from back pain? 
- Yes - frequently
- Yes - occasionally
- No  
 Boards &#038; chat Can magnets ease shoulder pain?
&#171;chat.dailymail.co.uk&#187; Email newsletter 
When Kerry Dunn woke up feeling unwell two days before Christmas, she thought she was coming down with a cold. But by lunchtime she felt so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Losers, but Can Viewers Keep the Pace?</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/big-losers-but-can-viewers-keep-the-pace-4/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/big-losers-but-can-viewers-keep-the-pace-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AS if all the thin people on television werent bad enough, now dieters must contend with the jealously inspired by contestants on The Biggest Loser, the hit NBC reality series. The 18 obese Americans lucky enough to have been picked are sequestered on the shows campus, work out with a trainer up to five hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many doctors, many tests, no rhyme or reason</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/many-doctors-many-tests-no-rhyme-or-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/many-doctors-many-tests-no-rhyme-or-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently took care of a 50-year-old man who had been admitted to the hospital short of breath. During his monthlong stay he was seen by a hematologist, an endocrinologist, a kidney specialist, a podiatrist, two cardiologists, a cardiac electrophysiologist, an infectious-diseases specialist, a pulmonologist, an ear-nose-throat specialist, a urologist, a gastroenterologist, a neurologist, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore takes on dengue fever, but victory is not assured</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/singapore-takes-on-dengue-fever-but-victory-is-not-assured-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/singapore-takes-on-dengue-fever-but-victory-is-not-assured-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE: Under the sink, behind the cleaning detergents, Thurainadan Govindarajoo shined his flashlight into the shadows, searching for telltale signs of the enemy. 
&#8220;People only think of the obvious places. Were looking for what I call the hidden habitats,&#8221; he said. Under leaking sinks, in disused toilets, beneath potted plants: wherever a few drops of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phys Ed: Crash and Burnout</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/phys-ed-crash-and-burnout-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/phys-ed-crash-and-burnout-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand the toll that overtraining can take on an athleteЙs life, consider the competitive arc of Whitney Myers, a fifth-year senior and a world-class swimmer at the &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187;. In 2006, Myers won the womenЙs &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187; title in the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys and, to the surprise of almost everyone, won gold in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/starving-themselves-cocktail-in-hand-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/starving-themselves-cocktail-in-hand-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANOREXIA. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge Eating Disorder. 
All are dangerous variations on the &#171;topics.nytimes.com&#187; &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187; and &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187;, and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles. As celebrity magazines chronicle the glamorous and the suffering, therapists and a growing number of researchers are trying to treat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bogus toothpaste now in 6 states, Canada</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/bogus-toothpaste-now-in-6-states-canada-7/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/bogus-toothpaste-now-in-6-states-canada-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP)  Counterfeit Colgate toothpaste has now turned up in Canada, where testing has found dangerous bacteria but not the poisonous chemical previously detected in four states, a health official said Saturday. 
In addition, store owners and police say they have discovered that the bogus Colgate was sold in Michigan and Virginia. 
The FDA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Man has less severe form of TB</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/report-man-has-less-severe-form-of-tb-84/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/report-man-has-less-severe-form-of-tb-84/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA  An Atlanta lawyer undergoing treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB, in Denver has a form of the disease that is less drug-resistant and more curable than previously reported, doctors said Tuesday. 
Officials at National Jewish Medical and Research Center said multiple tests done there indicate Andrew Speaker&#8217;s TB will respond to some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The simple push-up: A sign of good health</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-simple-push-up-a-sign-of-good-health-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-simple-push-up-a-sign-of-good-health-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up. 
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer. 
&#8220;It takes strength [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial introductions.</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/editorial-introductions-11/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/editorial-introductions-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial introductions. 
Editorial introductions Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition &#038; Metabolic Care. 10(5):viii-x, September 2007.
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		<title>Q &#38; A: Midnight Meals</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/q-a-midnight-meals-3/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/q-a-midnight-meals-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q. Is there any truth to the idea that if you eat heavily late in the evening, you will gain weight? 
A. The research is not conclusive on a clinical effect of late meals, but there are suggestions that there might be one. 
МIf the &#171;health.nytimes.com&#187; are exactly the same, it shouldnЙt make a difference, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The simple push-up: A sign of good health</title>
		<link>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-simple-push-up-a-sign-of-good-health-2/</link>
		<comments>http://piercing.org.uk/health_issues/the-simple-push-up-a-sign-of-good-health-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up. 
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer. 
&#8220;It takes strength [...]]]></description>
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