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		<title>Aspartame: Fibromyalgia and Preterm Birth</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2013/05/13/aspartame-fibromyalgia-and-preterm-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aspartame may be the reason that diet soda consumption during pregnancy has been linked to premature birth. When we learned how bad butter was for us, the food industry responded by giving us margarine, which turned out to be even worse. When the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) dietary guidelines directed us to lower our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Bioidentical Hormones Safe?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2013/04/16/are-bioidentical-hormones-safe-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause grew to prominence in the 1990’s when millions of women were sold hormones made from horse urine. The makers of Premarin (pregnant mare urine) promised HRT would prevent age-related diseases. When the truth got out in 2002 that the opposite was true, that it actually increased risk of heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Plant-Based Diet Fights Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2013/02/14/how-the-plant-based-diet-fights-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do centenarians, those who live to be over a hundred years old escape cancer? In the video, IGF-1 as One-Stop Cancer Shop you can see that as we get older our risk of developing and dying from cancer grows year by year until we reach 85 or 90 years of age and then begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer-Proof Your Body</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2013/02/08/cancer-proof-your-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifestyle nutrition pioneer Nathan Pritikin was an unlikely candidate to spark a nutrition revolution. He wasn’t a doctor or dietitian but actually an engineer. Featured in the video, Engineering a Cure, Pritikin reversed his own heart disease with a plant-based diet and went on to help millions of others. He even saved the life of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Enhance Mineral Absorption</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/12/28/how-to-enhance-mineral-absorption-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Concerns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Natural Alternatives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iron is a double-edged sword. If we don’t absorb enough we risk anemia, but if we absorb too much we may be increasing our risk of colorectal cancer, heart disease, infection, neurodegenerative disorders, and inflammatory conditions. Video: Risk Associated With Iron Supplements Other conditions that have been associated with high iron intake include Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, arthritis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnesium-Rich Foods Prevent Sudden Death</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/11/26/magnesium-rich-foods-prevent-sudden-death-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Concerns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whole Grains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most men and women who succumb to heart disease die suddenly without any known history of heart problems. As noted in my three minute video How Do Nuts Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death?, up to 55 percent of men and 68 percent of women have no clinically recognized heart disease before sudden death. They obviously had rampant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Arsenic In Rice Came From Chickens?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/09/21/how-much-arsenic-in-rice-came-from-chickens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Supply]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be no coincidence that the rice found most contaminated with arsenic originated from some of the top poultry producing states such as Arkansas, Texas, and Missouri. Earlier this year, researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found levels of arsenic in chicken feather meal up to 100 times that found in apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it Legal to Sell Unsafe Meat?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/09/18/why-is-it-legal-to-sell-unsafe-meat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/09/18/why-is-it-legal-to-sell-unsafe-meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the population in the U.S. suffers from an acute diarrheal illness, every year. According to a recent survey, most people correctly identified food as the most common source of infection, but fewer than half (45 percent) believed it legal for grocery stores to sell meat with food-poisoning bacteria on it. You can’t sell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury Testing Recommended Before Pregnancy</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/08/06/mercury-testing-recommended-before-pregnancy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/08/06/mercury-testing-recommended-before-pregnancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent testing of mercury concentrations in three national brands of canned tuna found that “55 percent of all tuna examined was above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s safety level for human consumption.” And the problem appears to be getting worse. Previous studies in 1993 and 2004 showed concerning levels of mercury contamination in canned tuna, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fight Inflammation With Food Synergy</title>
		<link>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/06/29/fight-inflammation-with-food-synergy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecomii.com/blogs/food/2012/06/29/fight-inflammation-with-food-synergy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Greger M.D.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthy Eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Produce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons some studies haven’t shown more impressive results tying disease reduction to the quantity of fruit and vegetable consumption (EPIC Study) may be because of the quality of fruit and vegetable consumption. People are more likely to eat bananas than blueberries; cucumbers instead of kale. Berries are the healthiest fruits (Best Berries) [...]]]></description>
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