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<description><![CDATA[Brenda Skidmore can testify to the many positive results improving water drinking habits can bring to human health. It is her sincere desire to help enlighten others by sharing this important health information. My Water 4 Life]]></description>
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<title>You Are What You Drink: Make My Next Drink A Glassful Of Antioxidant Filtered Water Please!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A necessity for life on Earth, clean water has been a long forgotten natural resource that many have taken for granted. We mistakenly think if we live in an area where rain regularly falls freely out of the sky it should, therefore, be safe and clean to drink.]]></description>
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<title>One Great Whole Body Detox Tip - Dry Skin Brushing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Did you know that your body's largest organ, the skin, is responsible for about one fourth of the daily detoxification needs that are required by your entire body? One of the easiest, and most inexpensive, ways you can help your skin do the job it was designed to do by nature, is in learning how to dry brush your skin. Dry skin brushing is a sort of spa like method that gives its participants numerous health benefits.]]></description>
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<title>An Old-Fashioned Wound Healing Treatment Resurrection - The Sugar Treatment Revival</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:40:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sugar is truly an excellent antibacterial medium. Sugar has reportedly been used since our ancestor's days to help aid the healing of wounds. As a matter of fact, some records indicate that sugar has been effectively used for its antibacterial properties for at least 5,000 years!]]></description>
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<title>Natural Health and Weight Management Regarding Butter Vs Margarine - What Do I Need to Know?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:26:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you are cooking for yourself or for your family, you will find that there are many dietary decisions that you need to make. When it comes to the hotly debated topic between margarine or butter, you might find that you are feeling just a little bit confused on the matter.]]></description>
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<title>Cure Bacterial Vaginosis With Simple, Natural Remedy Treatments</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:14:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Any woman that has ever suffered with a bout of bacterial vaginosis (BV) knows from experience, how utterly annoying, painful, and embarrassing the symptoms of this condition can be. Although the symptoms are quite similar, an overgrowth of bacteria or yeast are two different types of infections.]]></description>
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<title>Natural Options Can Boost Testosterone Levels in Older Men, Improving Sexual Performance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A number of natural options have been shown to free up testosterone, while suppressing excessive estrogen levels. These methods may be more desirable to a lot of men who are otherwise healthy, but are mainly suffering from a lack of desire or have anxiety associated with performance issues.]]></description>
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<title>Three All Natural Stress Balancing Tools For a Happier Life</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:03:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of time, the biggest challenge that has always faced human existence was in how to effectively cope with the physical environment that surrounds us. From the need to hunt and gather food, to searching for adequate housing protection from the elements, or escaping an occasional life threatening danger, our bodies are uniquely designed to handle brief episodes of stress..]]></description>
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<title>Nutrient Stripped Vegetables - The Downside of Modern Agriculture</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:21:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The average modern day vegetable producer has done a wonderful job of feeding massive amounts of people on a large scale. The trade off, however, seems to be at the expense of optimal taste and nutrition.]]></description>
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<title>Eating Blueberries With Milk Appears to Block Antioxidant Potential</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For many folks, a popular way of eating this fresh ripened fruit is in sprinkling a handful on top of a bowl of dry breakfast cereal with milk. Who would have ever thought that the high amount of phytonutrients, which are found in fresh, raw blueberries, would be severely compromised if ingested together with milk?]]></description>
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<title>Eating Nuts and Seeds Helps Lower the Risk of Diverticulosis</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:42:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The consumption of nuts, seeds, and popcorn have long been considered dietary no-noes for those with a painful digestive disorder known as diverticulitis. Diverticular disease is a rather common occurrence among the aging Western population. Roughly one-third will develop this condition by the age of 60, and two-thirds by the age of 85.]]></description>
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<title>Reducing Your Sugar Intake Successfully</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:52:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the taste of highly sweetened food and drink, humans are innately lured to the flavor. For many, the urge to indulge is so strong that it is akin to several other addictive and pleasurable behaviors such as strenuous exercise, sexual climax, and the use of narcotics. Due to a quick release of dopamine and endorphins within the brain, sugar brings on a surge of energy, happiness, and calm, at least temporarily.]]></description>
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<title>Smokers Need Vitamin C  To Prevent Vitamin E Loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been common knowledge for quite a while that tobacco smoke depletes blood serum levels of vitamin C in people who smoke. A recent investigative health study funded by the 'National Institutes of Health', and carried out by the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, have clearly shown that supplementing with vitamin C works at reversing vitamin E depletion and disappearance in people who smoke.]]></description>
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<title>Pleasant Music's Heart Health Benefits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't know how you feel about music, but I can really get into listening to some zippy tunes that can often lift my mood. I simply love all kinds of different types of music.]]></description>
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<title>Kidney Stones in Children? The Occurrence is on the Rise</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:42:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A urinary tract condition more commonly seen in adults in their 40's and 50's, is now being seen more often in children as well. In fact, the incidence of kidney stones is rising in all ages and genders.]]></description>
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<title>Brain Atrophy and Vitamin B-12 Deficiency - Should You Be Using Supplements?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:38:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A recent nutritional research study published in 'Neurology' 2008; 71: 826-832, suggests that having lower end levels of vitamin B-12, often considered to be within an acceptable range, could be damaging to normal brain size. Another study conducted at Tufts University in Boston in 2000 estimated that about 40 percent of the U.S. Population has a vitamin B-12 deficiency.]]></description>
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<title>Fluoride Safety - The Hidden Fallacy Behind the Truth</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:54:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If most people did not want fluoride added to their fresh water supplies, years ago, why were they not given the option to buy fluoride supplements instead? Mass fluoridation of our nation's municipal water supplies has never had anything to do with safe dental health from the earliest get-go. Arbitrarily, it has been a blatant political maneuver, in covering up of the the dumping of toxic wastes produced by the manufacturing of aluminum, nuclear arms, and phosphates due to our modern day industrial revolution.]]></description>
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<title>Improving Your Emotional Intelligence May Be As Easy As Getting More Sleep</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:52:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered how hard you should be working at solving a challenging problem in your life? No matter what the challenge may be, that little extra edge advantage may just lie in something that a lot of people seem to take for granted nowadays.]]></description>
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<title>Could Your Recurring Stomach Pains Be IBS? How to Treat it Naturally</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:28:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Irritable bowel syndrome (or IBS) is the most common digestive health condition that 20 percent of the American population seeks professional health care advice for. It is sometimes called a nervous stomach or spastic colon, and is twice as prevalent in women than men.]]></description>
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<title>The Medicinal Uses of Raw Apple Cider Vinegar</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:41:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Honestly, natural apple cider vinegar is one of nature's own, true miracle health elixirs. The long history of its use demonstrates, rather clearly, that using vinegar was once highly revered as a practical medical application long before Johnny Appleseed graced North America by planting apple trees. The healing powers of vinegar has been traced back as far as 3000 BC, Hippocrates, Babylonia, and to 15th century England as a means to ward off dangerous and infectious diseases, to keep one's general health fit and strong, and used as a simple antiseptic/disinfectant.]]></description>
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<title>What's Stress Got to Do With It? Control Those Negative, Second-Hand Emotions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:46:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At Some point in our lives, nearly everyone will experience a period of time suffering from an emotional upheaval. Or, otherwise known as stress and anxiety.]]></description>
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<title>Sweet and Tasty - The Health Enhancing Effects of Eating Blueberries</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:12:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's the summer blues season, and it is the perfect time to enjoy nature's bountiful blueberry harvest in full swing. Prime blueberry season runs from mid June to mid August. In fact, New England hiking enthusiasts may happen to find a patch of smaller, wild blueberries on their off trail hiking treks.]]></description>
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<title>The Joys of a Healthy Pregnancy Depends on Water</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:10:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you are a pregnant female or not, water is the key fluid required for the healthy functioning of all body organs. During pregnancy, your body actually needs more of this fluid to withstand the demanding changes that are being placed on your body to produce and nurture a healthy offspring.]]></description>
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<title>Papayas - A Powerhouse of  Digestive Enzyme Nutrition</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sweet and succulent, this elongated, pear shaped fruit is loaded with more vitamin C than an orange. It has a velvety soft, almost buttery-like, texture which Christopher Columbus described as 'fruit of the angels'. Once considered quite rare and exotic for most of us, papayas are now commonly found in most larger end supermarket chains.]]></description>
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<title>Bone Density Loss - Prevention a Far Better Option to Treatment</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you were meant to have strong, and healthy, bones throughout your lifetime? Unfortunately, about 40 percent, currently, of American women and about 6 percent of American men, over the age of 50, will have a vertebral fracture due to bone mass loss (or osteoporosis).]]></description>
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<title>Five All Natural, Hot Weather Health Safety Tips For Your Pets</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:36:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a proud pet owner, most people naturally want the very best for their furry, four-legged friends. It is likely your emotional investment began the moment you, and your new found companion, looked into each others eyes for the first time. If you happen to be a stickler in keeping high, physical health care standards for yourself and your family, then ensuring that your pet has a safe, healthy, and happy life is certainly going to become a top priority too.]]></description>
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<title>Crunchy Nuts And Seeds Are Healthy Food Snacks</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 09:26:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for some delicious, alternative dietary choices to replace those highly processed sugar, and hydrogenated fat food snacks? If so, look no further than to nuts or seeds.]]></description>
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<title>Laughing It Up For The Sake Of Your Health</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How much do you, happily, laugh at yourself and with others? How often you laugh at life, and with life, can definitely provide some positive, physical health effects.]]></description>
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<title>The Wonderful Healing Power Of The Pomegranate</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:51:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A new and odd looking fruit, at least to those who live in North America, has exploded onto the health food scene recently. The pomegranate is, originally, a native plant to Persia (Iran) and China.]]></description>
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<title>Vitamin C - An Antioxidant Powerhouse That Helps Prevent Strokes And Cardiovascular Disease</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:57:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After a recent love affair with Vitamin C, and its hyped up ability to be one of the best cold and flu fighting remedies around, this nutrient soon fell out of favor with the mainstream media, and the general public. If it were not for its glory days in curing scurvy in sailors, which is really an early stage of leaky blood vessels, its reputation would have been seriously compromised when it was discovered it was not the magical cure all for colds and flu. At least, not for everyone.]]></description>
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<title>Caffeine Causes Glucose Level Spikes In Type 2 Diabetics</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that nearly 18 million Americans have been diagnosed as having diabetes, and this figure continues to rise? Of those diagnosed, 95 percent have adult-onset (or Type 2) diabetes, and only about half of them are even aware that they they have the disorder. Adult-onset diabetes used to be a rare occurrence, developing in an individual around the mid-forties.]]></description>
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<title>Do Medical Healthcare Professionals Use And Recommend Dietary Supplements? You Bet They Do</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:11:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Currently, it is estimated that around 70 percent of Americans trust nutritional supplements. They are using them to fill in the gaps when consuming inadequate diets.]]></description>
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<title>Eat Your Way To Better Knee Health By Increasing Vitamins C And D Levels</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:08:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joint is a crippling disease that affects the entire joint including the articular cartilage, bone, and soft tissues. It is the most common form of joint disease, and the main cause of musculoskeletal disability in the aging population group.]]></description>
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<title>Healthy Edge Advantages Of Adding Probiotics And Prebiotics To Your Diet</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fermented foods and beverages have played an important role in human diets in many different cultures throughout the world for generations. First and foremost it was used as a food preservation tool before the advent of modern-day cold storage methods.    Recently, within the last decade, modern nutritional research science is revealing just how important these type of foods, and their active related bacterial ingredients, really are to human digestive health.]]></description>
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<title>Omega 3s May Help Calm Some Children With ADD Or ADHD</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:04:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you have a child that has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? Does treating your child, or children, with one of today's most common treatments for these conditions with an amphetamine-type drug like 'Ritalin' bother your conscious feelings of guilt? If so, you are not alone.]]></description>
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<title>Super Food Diet - A Fad Diet Plan Based On Healthy Facts or Fiction?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:01:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all know that we should treat our bodies better than we do sometimes. But, more often than we would like, that is easier said than done. Some of us tend to try to burn the candle at both ends, so to speak, and a little to often.]]></description>
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<title>The Real Health Deal In Drinking Raw Milk</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:01:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of the many positive health benefits of drinking (unprocessed) milk? If not, then you are in for a pleasant and eye-opening surprise.]]></description>
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<title>Meditating Can Help Break Old Bad Habits That Can Lead To Insomnia</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:00:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are suffering from, or have had in the past, some rather unpleasant experiences of not being able to sleep, take heart. You are not alone, and you definitely have lots of wide-eyed company sharing this dilemma with you.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Weight Loss Requires Taking A Break For Breakfast</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:06:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You really can start to form a new eating habit, that begins improving your overall health today. Regularly eating in the morning, or whatever time of the day you wake up, is one of the most important daily eating habits you will ever learn.]]></description>
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<title>Honey - Another Long Forgotten Cough Suppressant</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:47:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As you will discover, upon investigating, there are many different ways a parent can safely offer, natural and alternative approaches to dealing with an irritating cough in a child. You will also be clearing your conscious, and giving yourself a better nights sleep in the process.]]></description>
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<title>Seasonal Affective Disorder - Understand The Cause And Cure The Symptoms Naturally</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:40:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SAD, otherwise known as 'seasonal affective disorder', is systemic in nature, and this condition can affect anywhere from 5 to 25 percent of the American population. The symptoms can range from a relatively mild subtype form, of which affects a larger number of people and is commonly known as the 'winter blues', to more of a 'I can't get out of bed' type of clinical depression that affects a smaller portion of the population. Both though, disappear just as soon as daylight hours begin to increase in the spring.]]></description>
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<title>Beating The Odds Of Developing Glaucoma - With All Natural Approaches</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:10:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Glaucoma is a potentially, and very serious, threatening eye disease that can rob you of your ability to see. It is often called the 'sneak thief' of vision for a valid reason. For many people, years often pass with no noticeable affects of having glaucoma before a vision loss is finally noticed.]]></description>
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<title>Nutrients Can Provide An Oasis of Moisture Relief For Chronic Dry Eye Sufferers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:10:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many who experience this type of uncomfortable eye condition, often times, opt to quickly treat it with an over-the-counter or prescription eye drop solution. Unfortunately, most eye drops will only provide temporary relief, at best.]]></description>
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<title>Increased Cancer Risks Associated With Working The Graveyard Shift</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:33:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You may have heard some alarming health news recently, about how working the 'graveyard shift' may increase your odds for developing breast or prostate cancer. This story is based on recent research, over the last 20 years, that does, indeed, find an increased rate of breast cancer among women who work at night. But, please keep in mind that high cancer rates, that have been newly discovered in night workers, does not prove that nighttime work, alone, causes one to get cancer.]]></description>
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<title>Iodine Deficient? A Simple Self-Test Can Show You Now</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:39:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the United States alone, nearly 13 million people suffer from some type of thyroid imbalance and are, usually, totally unaware of it. Iodine is a necessary nutrient, not only for proper thyroid functioning but, it is also essential for the normal functioning of body cells, nervous system, muscles, brain development, oxygen utilization, metabolism, a strong immune system, and a whole lot more. Understanding how important a critical trace mineral is, such as this one, to your overall health is well worth the time spent in learning more.]]></description>
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<title>Super Foods Everyone Needs To Be Eating For Nutrition, Health, And General Wellbeing</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:37:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take a more in depth look at what the positive effects are to eating more color rich, dense plant 'super foods', and in eating more of the health enhancing properties of good 'super food' fat foods. 'Super Foods' are a classification of certain types of whole foods (minimally processed whenever possible) that are believed, and have been shown, to be good for you. If you begin to make a conscious effort to include more of these super foods into your weekly diet, and commit to understanding why they are good for your body, then you will be living a healthier life inside your body.]]></description>
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<title>Flu Vaccines Are Not A Reliable Answer For Prevention</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:11:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seems the number one reason, why many people do not get a flu shot, is really rather simple. Most Americans do not trust the flu vaccine. They believe it does not really work, and they also believe it can cause one to get the flu.]]></description>
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<title>Safeguarding Yourself Against Staph Infections - By Eating More Good Bacteria Protection</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:42:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Staph infections, at times, can circulate rapidly through communities. They definitely upset health officials because of their potential danger to harm vulnerable individuals who, for various different reasons, have suppressed immune systems.]]></description>
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<title>The Appendix - Your Body's Good Little Bacteria Factory</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:56:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A rather interesting new piece of information has recently come to the forefront on the apparent, and positive purposes, of having an appendix, and what that supposedly useless body organ actually does for you. The appendix, of course, has long mystified doctors in what necessity it has ever actually played inside the human body.]]></description>
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<title>Good Bacteria - How Probiotics Can Boost Your Internal Health</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:48:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since the 1940's, modern medicine has mainly focused on the killing off of harmful disease causing bacteria via newly discovered antibiotics. This practice came about with not much understanding of the role, in the advantages, that good micro-organisms (bacteria) played in maintaining good health.]]></description>
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<title>Sports Drinks - Safe Alternatives or Junk Food?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:01:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bucket loads of money is being spent by beverage manufacturers, on brainwashing advertisements, to get consumers to believe that these drinks are healthy, and essential. They claim they are needed to replenish those lost electrolytes, due to physical exertion.]]></description>
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<title>How To Avoid Daytime Fatigue</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:44:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is it the middle of the morning or afternoon, and you can barely think of anything else but catching a little more shut eye? Even simple projects or tasks can sometimes seem incredibly hard to manage.]]></description>
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<title>How To Heal A Urinary Tract Infection With Water</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:27:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Urinary tract infections are quite common and account for more than seven million doctor visits each year. The pain, burning, and interruption of normal living in having a UTI is a very real, painful, and private matter. Embarrassing, though it may be, do not be lulled into ignoring it.]]></description>
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<title>Vitamin K And Other Natural Tips For Treating Varicose And Spider Veins</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:39:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Varicose veins, and the less noticeable form of them called spider veins, are mainly a cosmetic concern for most and three times more prevalent in women than in men. According to a new research study published in the 'Journal of Vascular Research', varicosis also known as varicose veins, may be caused in part by a dietary lack of vitamin K.]]></description>
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<title>Monosodium Glutamate MSG - A Neurotoxin Or A Harmless Food Flavor Enhancer?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:40:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Manufactured/processed monosodium glutamate is the substance in question that causes the most reactions in MSG sensitive people. So what is MSG exactly?]]></description>
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<title>Saturated Fats Versus Polyunsaturated Fats - A Dietary Warning</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:00:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite a popular, misconstrued public belief in the healthiness of dietary polyunsaturated fat oils, this health scourge on human health has kept several industries and professions lucratively employed for almost a century. In objective, scientifically researched studies conducted over 70 years ago, researchers indicated that the human body does require a daily intake of fats to function optimally but, the type of fats consumed are just as important as the amounts, if not more so.]]></description>
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<title>Vitamin D - The Wonderful Healing Properties Of The Sunshine Vitamin</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:21:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many Americans simply take for granted the importance of this free and natural necessary nutrient. Vitamin D deficiencies in the United States are now in epidemic proportions, and in all age groups.]]></description>
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<title>Dangers Of Microwave Cooking</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:10:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, there is no doubt that the microwave oven was one of the eighties hottest must have kitchen appliances. Do you remember how much the first ones cost to own? Look how cheap and common place they have become since.]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Enzymes- For Digestion, Nutrient Absorption, and Longevity</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:05:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Overeating or bolting down the wrong foods can lead to bodily reactions such as excess gas and acid, bloating, and grogginess. Do you often find yourself needing an antacid after eating certain types of food? ]]></description>
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<title>Clean Water - A Precious Necessity</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 11:41:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone, no matter who you are or what your economic status in life is, should have the right to exist. That largely depends on safe, clean water.]]></description>
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<title>A Speed Freak For Energy Drinks? Damage May Come From Being Over The Limit</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 08:33:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What supposedly makes these drinks healthier than a regular soda is that you also get some vitamins, amino acids, and herbal supplements. The average energy drink has very little of these added ingredients to be of any real health value.]]></description>
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<title>Arthritis And Related Conditions - How To Treat Them  Naturally and Successfully</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 08:04:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Getting enough exercise to help increase joint mobility in arthritis sufferers is one option that is consistently being preached. But it alone will not be enough, it is very hard to freely move painful joints through exercises that are chronically dry and dehydrated.]]></description>
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<title>Negative Emotions - The Effect They Have On Back Pain</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:15:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that your positive or negative emotions can have a profound impact on your physical health? A new study has found that psychological interventions are extremely effective at reducing or eliminating back pain, arthritis, depression, and many other health-related problems.]]></description>
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<title>New Hope For Those With Age-Related Macular Degeneration</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:22:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Age-related macular degeneration, with the average onslaught age beginning in the early forties, is one of the four leading causes of vision loss in America. The other three are glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and cataracts. However, until recently AMD left its victims no hope in regaining lost vision.]]></description>
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<title>Give Your Allergies A Sniffle-Free Spring - Address Possible Nutrient Deficiencies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:58:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roughly 40 million in the U.S. Suffer from allergies, thousands do not even realize they do. Many suspect they have allergies and ignore their symptoms or routinely self medicate.]]></description>
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<title>Treat It For The Miracle It Is: Filtering Your Drinking Water</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:57:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While buying bottled water is certainly popular and convenient while traveling or when you are away from home, it is to expensive for long term household use. Simply put, a home filtration system is the simplest, cheapest, and most effective way to purify household tap water.]]></description>
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<title>Child Abuse And A Poor Diet Connection: Needs A Closer Look</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:21:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If anyone thinks they have not been affected by child abuse, looking at current statistics should tell you otherwise. The costs of child abuse in the United States has been estimated to be around $94 billion.]]></description>
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<title>Two Comparative Models Of Cancer Prevention: Which Is the Better Model of Truth?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:49:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seems rather obvious that as a nation and culture we are in complete denial of our poor eating habits. We are simply not paying enough attention to good sound nutritional practices.]]></description>
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<title>Ironing Out The Wrinkles With Botox? Demonstrative Details Need Researching</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:03:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If clearer, moister, and more tautly looking facial skin is important to you, you may be interested in taking a more natural approach. Natural methods are much less expensive, and not as time consuming as you may expect.]]></description>
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<title>Erectile Dysfunction: The New Young Male Sex Epidemic</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:43:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Poor lifestyle choices and bad habits are critical factors that could quite possibly cause you to lose what most men find as the most pleasurable experience of their lives, and so much more, their confidence depends on it. Take care of it now or risk losing it later.]]></description>
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<title>Open The Doorway To Great Sex: With Weight Control Through Diet And Exercise</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:48:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Consider the fact that being in love or out of love can be two of the best known diets out there. Both can be strong motivators in controlling or losing control of an individual's weight.]]></description>
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<title>5 Steps To Preventing Cancer Before It Begins - With Diet</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:28:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that what you eat can make a difference whether you develop cancer? Most nutritional experts agree that what you choose to eat consistently makes a huge difference.]]></description>
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<title>To Eat Fish Or Not: A Healthy Benefit Or A Contaminated Risk?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:41:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is sad but true, the typical American diet is tragically void of life giving nutrients. From vitamins and minerals to digestive enzymes and adequate water intake, healthy human functioning depends on a healthy diet to avoid illness and disease.]]></description>
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<title>EFT: The Ultimate Health And Happiness Tool</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:10:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, and is a relatively new discovery founded by Gary Craig, a Stanford engineering graduate and an ordained minister. Gary points out that, although he is neither a psychologist or a licensed therapist, he recognized at an early age that the quality of his thoughts was reflected back in the quality of his life. Gary has always had a profound interest in seeking only those procedures that, in his opinion, would produce results.]]></description>
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<title>Energy In A Can: Long Term Boost or Short Burst?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:28:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Energy drinks have exploded on the scene over the last several years in their brightly colored cans and bottles.
They line the shelves in convenience stores and supermarkets, and claim to help performance, concentration, and more stamina.]]></description>
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<title>ADHD: Links To Causes And Cures</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:50:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over one million children take prescription drugs for ADHD. It's not the only answer especially when there have been many studies done on more natural and cost effective options.]]></description>
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<title>Simply And Naturally: End Your Back Or Rheumatoid Joint Pain</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:06:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You owe yourself or your loved ones a more basic and natural approach. The many evasive treatments that are commercialized and profit driven currently are not in the best interest of a suffering public.]]></description>
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<title>Best Of The Best: Herbal And Other Natural Remedies For Better Sleep</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:28:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A staggering 69 percent of Americans suffer from a sleep disorder. Whether you have trouble falling asleep or wake earlier than you'd like, you can use a wide variety of natural approaches for a better nights sleep.]]></description>
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<title>Better Brain Boosters: Natural Not Artificial Ways To Brain Strength</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:36:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is possible to boost brain power at any age after making a few simple lifestyles changes. These powerful strategies can work in as little as two weeks!]]></description>
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<title>Feed Your Mind: Smart Brain Strategies And Nutrients</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:22:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So how can you improve your brain functioning? Smarter lifestyle and nutrient changes can affect the way you remember, think, feel, and behave.]]></description>
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<title>Friends More Than Family May Help You Live Longer</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:56:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Love is the strongest emotion that we can possibly feel and whether it comes from friends, family, or somewhere else, it is one of your greatest health and longevity tools. There is no denying that an optimistic mental attitude towards life, together with social interaction, has been found to positively affect your physical and mental health.]]></description>
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<title>Conventional Medicine's Vision: A Future In Preventive Health Care</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:09:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Could it be that modern man is creating a complex solution for a relatively simple nutrient deficiency problem? This simple solution should be examined first because there is a high probability that a nutrient and or dehydration problem could produce a much more cost effective answer.]]></description>
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<title>How To Cure Heartburn Effectively: On Pocket Change</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:35:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Heartburn and acid reflux disease is a signal your body is short of water. Medications only change the acidity level of stomach acid, so there is less burn.]]></description>
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<title>Soft Drink Alert: Dangers of Benzene</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:47:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Losing weight is a real major health concern for at least two-thirds of the American population. Many adults and children drink themselves into being overweight or obesity. Beyond those nutritionally empty calories that soft drinks have and the number one source of calories in a typical American diet, a long known about threat in soft drinks, benzene, has health officials concerned again.]]></description>
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<title>Water: Simply Creates Fluid Health</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:00:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Man really does have a way of messing things up sometimes, in thinking way to deeply on human health matters. Real winners grasp the simple concepts to benefit in long term results, that speaks loudly of success!]]></description>
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<title>Soda Pop Machines Lose Their High Calorie Fizz In Schools</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 13:15:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that aspartame is an addictive poison in beverages and food? It's only claim to fame is the lowering of calories and is actually counter productive in weight loss. Only one beverage on the planet has a proven weight loss history behind it, and that is water.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Secret to Achieving and  Maintaining Weight Loss</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2006 14:53:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you drink daily? All of us must drink something every day to stay hydrated. All weight loss problems can become much easier to handle by making one simple change.]]></description>
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<title>The No.1 Secret to Weight Loss I  Learned  From Reading One Very Important Book</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 16:04:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being overweight or obese is a self inflicted condition. Americans love super sizing their meals and some are paying for it with their health and their lives. Being overweight or obese is a profit maker for the medical and alternative health fields.]]></description>
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