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<description><![CDATA[Gene Millen's career began shortly after graduating from Modesto High School in 1949, when he joined Bank of America as a "trainee." This was the beginning of a banking career that included 15 years as the founding president of County Bank of Merced from 1977 to 1992. Gene tells about an experience that prompted a change in his lifestyle...and his life. "In 1990 at age 59, I went to Valley Heart Associates for a routine treadmill examination. The cardiologist looked up from the treadmill report and grimly stated, 'You're a walking time bomb. You need to go to the hospital ... ]]></description>
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<title>Exercise and Weight Loss Were the Furthest Things From My Mind</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My heart was pounding in my chest and my breath was coming in short, labored gasps. After about two minutes the technician stopped the instrument of torture and I was escorted to a chair for a welcome rest. As my pulse returned to normal my brain played a flashback of my exercise motto. "If I get the desire to exercise I'll lie down until it goes away." My daydreaming was interrupted by a pleasant nurse who announced, "The cardiologist will see you now."]]></description>
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<title>Breathe Deeply for Great Lung Power and a Long Life!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:56:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1990, as I was recovering from the trauma of a six-way heart bypass operation, restoration of my lung function was high on my priority list. Several times each day I breathed deeply into a device called a spirometer, which measured the volume of air I was able to suck into my lungs. This was a difficult task at first, but before long my lungs were in better shape than before the surgery.]]></description>
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<title>Brain Exercises Can Improve Memory and Just Might Stave Off Alzheimer's</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:16:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are brain exercises and how do they work? If you ask Doris, a 79-year-old former psychologist the answer may surprise you.]]></description>
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<title>Alzheimers and Exercise - Partners in Recovery?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:54:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alzheimers and exercise go hand in hand in slowing, or even reversing this dreaded disease. A recent study gives all of us hope. Patients with early Alzheimer's disease who exercised regularly saw less deterioration in areas of the brain that control memory, according to a study released at the 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.]]></description>
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<title>A Brain Plasticity Miracle - Pedro Rewired His Brain After a Stroke</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:45:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his book, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge, M.D. relates the brain plasticity miracle of Pedro.  At the age of sixty-five, Pedro Bach-y-Rita had suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed his face and half of his body. 	  He was unable to talk or walk, and his sons Paul and George were told there was no hope for recovery," and that Pedro would have to go into an institution. This story has a remarkable ending.]]></description>
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<title>Are Symptoms of Dementia Or Alzheimer's in Your Future?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:23:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you sometimes wonder if symptoms of dementia are in your future? You need to make some deposits in your brain reserve account.]]></description>
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<title>Brain Games - Do They Improve Memory and Brain Functions?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:28:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are "brain games" and how do they work?   Brain fitness programs generally are available either online or as computer software. They are designed for persons who want to maintain or improve memory, attention and problem-solving ability.  Most are interested in slowing or reversing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.]]></description>
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<title>Is Your Brain Getting Better With Age?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:15:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular myth and also what some of my younger friends have opined, most of us don't lose a lot of brain cells as we get older. There isn't that much difference between a healthy 75-year old brain and a 25-year old one.]]></description>
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<title>A Brain Fitness Program - Could it Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you often misplace your car keys or forget a friend's name? Just maybe a brain fitness program could revitalize that aging memory. Occasional forgetfulness is often written off as a "normal part of just growing old," but new research indicates that Alzheimer's may be in your future.]]></description>
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<title>This Aerobic Exercise Program Could Change Your Life</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:31:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Of the three key exercise variables... how often you exercise, how hard you work and how long you last, intensity has the most powerful effect.  Your body responds to short bursts of intensity by releasing a cascade of fat-mobilizing hormones and anti-aging growth hormones that supercharge your metabolism and burn extra calories for 24 hours or longer.  ]]></description>
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<title>Low Glycemic Foods and Aerobic Exercise Win The Battle of the Bulge</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:26:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequent questions from exercisers, as they affectionately caress their paunch is "How do I get rid of this?" The answer is low glycemic foods and the right aerobic exercise program.]]></description>
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<title>Cholesterol Numbers - Are Yours Too Low?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The general public has been "brain washed" by the deluge of misinformation regarding cholesterol - and it's no wonder when you consider the multi-million dollar advertising budgets of the makers of Lipitor, Crestor and Vytorin. Cholesterol that is too low can cause health conditions that are rarely mentioned by health care practioners. Learn what the right cholesterol numbers are and how you can keep yours in the optimum range.]]></description>
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<title>Vytorin Side Effects - Are They Really Rare?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:05:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Merck Pharmaceuticals is running a very clever TV commercial,  that suggests Vytorin side effects "are rare and minimal." There are some very good reasons to look upon this advertisement with a great deal of skeptcism. ]]></description>
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<title>A Low Fat Diet May Be Setting You Up For A Heart Attack</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:00:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New research shows that a low fat diet will lower the amount of HDL
cholesterol in your body.  

I can almost hear you saying, "And your point is?"

In a nutshell HDL cholesterol is composed of large buoyant particles known, 
as APO A1, which are "anti-atherogenic." This means that they act like guardian 
angels to reverse heart disease by scooping up the plaque that could clog your 
arteries and cause a heart attack or stroke. ]]></description>
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<title>High Cholesterol Just Might Save Your Life</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:24:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The standard cholesterol test ordered by physicians measures total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. The LDLs are off handedly described as the "bad cholesterol"...but there is much more to the story.]]></description>
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<title>Got High Cholesterol? Eat More Eggs!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:37:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're worried about high cholesterol you should eat eggs sparingly, right?

Wrong! A new study recently conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut has come up with the eggciting news that eggs lower the risks of having a heart attack or stroke.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Taking Atenolol or Other Beta Blockers? You Should Be Aware of These Risks</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:41:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you are taking Atenolol or other beta blocker to lower your blood pressure you need to read this.
Nearly 2 million Britons have been advised that beta blocker side effects include increased risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.]]></description>
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<title>Lose Weight and Feel Full on Fewer Calories</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:50:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's a common notion that people tend to eat the same number of calories from day to day. But that's not necessarily so, says Barbara Rolls, PhD. Many people eat the same weight of food from day to day. Therein lies the strategy behind her new weight loss book, "Volumetrics." If people consume the same volume of food they always do but with fewer calories than usual, they'll lose weight, without feeling hungry.]]></description>
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<title>Got Problems to Solve? Need More Brain Power? Try Exercise</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:48:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creative people have known for years that a link exists between exercise and solving problems. Charles Dickens orchestrated many of his novels after his amble through the streets of London. Frank Lloyd Wright engineered landmark designs after his daily saunter.]]></description>
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<title>Women and Exercise - And I Thought They Were The Weaker Sex</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:42:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When most of us were growing up a strength-conditioning program for a "lady" was unheard of. There have been very few women "muscle builders" in recent years and most women are not at all interested in getting big muscles.]]></description>
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<title>Stretching For Strength</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in improving the efficiency of your strength training sessions, you may want to make stretching a bigger priority. A recent study by researcher and author, Wayne Wescott, Ph.D., shows that stretching after your workout not only increases flexibility but improves strength as well.]]></description>
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<title>Is It Aging or Lack of Exercise That Makes You Feel Old? You Be The Judge</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:22:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[He looked down and stared in horror at his withered painful leg. "My God, whose leg is that?" he cried. "It can't be my leg. That's an old leg." But it wasn't old. The other leg was just as old, and it looked fine. His right leg had deteriorated because it had been in a cast for several weeks due to an injury.]]></description>
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<title>Cancer and Carbs - Is There A Relationship?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:22:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Brain Tumor Foundation in Oakland, California is so convinced by the studies linking carbohydrate and insulin to cancer growth they recently revised their dietary guidelines in a dramatic way.]]></description>
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<title>A Heart Attack Isn't As Much Fun As You Might Think</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:18:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've never had a heart attack... but I came a little too close for comfort.  I remember it like it was yesterday although it was 15 years ago. It was a pleasant early fall morning as my wife Bernie and I embarked on the drive to Modesto for a "routine" treadmill test.]]></description>
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<title>These Heart Exercise Principles Can Turn The Clock Back 30 Years</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:09:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although we've been touting the benefits of heart health exercise for fifteen years, a study published in Circulation: The Journal of the American Heart Association stunned even us. The report's bottom line: six months of regular exercise can reverse 30 years of aerobic decline.]]></description>
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<title>Too Busy to Exercise? How About 10 Minutes?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:05:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why don't we achieve our health and fitness goals? We are smart enough. We usually know what to do-but don't do what we know. We have good intentions but "busyness", procrastination and lack of discipline take control of our lives.   You can do it! And Dr. Sears proven PACE exercise program changes the way your body burns fat... and in only about ten minutes per session.]]></description>
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<title>Lose Weight By Eating Ice Cream</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hot new research reveals that ice cream, when eaten as part of a healthy diet, may actually melt away fat, helping you lose weight quicker than if you abstained! Plus a dish a day helps you get healthier in other ways according to Marsha Hudnall's book, THE ICE CREAM DIET.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Balanced?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:00:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Jordan has it. Scott Hamilton has it. Shannon Miller has it. What is it? It is balance. Experts tell us that it is the single most important component of athletic ability because it underlies all movement.]]></description>
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<title>Aging is An Attitude - How's Yours?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:56:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How we age is largely dependent upon our attitude and expectations. If we think and act young we will stay younger and enjoy life to a much greater extent.]]></description>
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<title>Heart Attack Odds - Would You Like to Reduce Them by 300%?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:53:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although there are already mountains of research proving that exercise is good for heart health but researchers at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas have discovered a new one that could help you avoid a heart attack.]]></description>
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<title>The Atkins Low Carb Diet - Heart Attack City or Weight Loss Heaven?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:52:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the big stories in the weight loss world is the recent acceptance of the Atkins Diet by an increasing number of recognized researchers in the medical field. ]]></description>
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<title>Low Carb Diet vs. Low Fat Diet - The Truth About Fat and Cholesterol</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:33:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How did the  "dietary fat is bad" roller coaster get started? Investigative reporter Gary Taub in his insightful and through research report published in the New York Times Magazine explains what happened.]]></description>
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<title>Exercise More and Eat Less - Why Is It So Difficult?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:30:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you on the road to Blobville or Heart Health City?]]></description>
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<title>Osteoporosis - Will a High Protein, Low Carb Diet Increase or Reduce Bone Density?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:30:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever since the 1970s, nutritionists have been arguing over the role of protein in maintaining bone health. Some claim a high-protein diet makes the body excrete more calcium, which in turn could weaken bones. Others assert just the opposite: That dietary protein is essential for maintaining strong bones. Who's right?]]></description>
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<title>Heart Health and Weight Loss Come Quicker and Better Using These Exercise Principles</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:29:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[About 100 years ago, when I was on the high school track team, Coach Miller "encouraged" us to do "wind sprints". We would jog around the track for a while, suddenly break into a sprint for about 40 yards and then slow down to a walk as our lungs cried out "Please don't do that again."]]></description>
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<title>Is A Low Carb Diet Part Of Your Anti Aging Strategy?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:26:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["It ain't fun getting' old... but it beats the alternative." Surprising new research indicates that a low carb diet may help us live longer. Since some of my friends have been so rude as to suggest that I'm "older than dirt" I thought it would be a good idea to learn more about aging... especially how to slow it down.]]></description>
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<title>High Carb or Low Carb - All Carbohydrates Are Not Created Equal</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:24:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Would you like to lose weight, be more energetic and improve your heart health, or do you like yourself just the way you are? If the latter is true congratulations are in order, and you may want to skip this article.]]></description>
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<title>Carbohydrates - These Are Heart Healthy and Great for Weight Loss</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:07:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You just can't beat fiber for its heart health, weight loss, and energy producing qualities.]]></description>
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<title>Stoves, Pigs and Other Pot Bellies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:03:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people live in hope that there is a secret formula that will quickly melt away their potbelly but unfortunately spot reducing just doesn't work. If you are interested in heart disease prevention you should realize that surplus abdominal fat increases risk of a heart attack. For every inch your waistline exceeds the size of your chest, you can deduct two years from your life.]]></description>
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<title>If I Were Any Better I'd Be Twins!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:59:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and when someone would ask him how he was doing, He would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!'

Sometime later, I heard that Michael had fallen 60 feet from a communications tower.
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<title>Taking Lipitor, Zocor or Crestor? Is Your Energy Lagging? You Need CoQ10!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:01:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Has your "get up and go got up and went"? If so you will be interested in this latest research on CQ10.

"CoQ10, is energy on call," says, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a board certified cardiologist at the New England Heart and Longevity Center. "I have long considered CoQ10 a wonder nutrient because of its ability to support heart health."]]></description>
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<title>Are You On A Bullet Train To Heart Attack City?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:23:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For more than two decades we've had it drummed into our heads that high cholesterol causes heart attacks and of course the major cause of the high cholesterol has been the high saturated fat that most of us love so much.

If high cholesterol is the villain then why do half of all heart attacks happen to people with normal or low cholesterol--and two out of three occur without major artery blockages? Cholesterol has gotten a bum rap.]]></description>
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