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		<title>Folic Acid Might Promote Cancers of the Breast, Lung, and Colon</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2010/08/05/folic-acid-might-promote-cancers-of-the-breast-lung-and-colon/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2010/08/05/folic-acid-might-promote-cancers-of-the-breast-lung-and-colon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On page 59 in his book Crohn&#8217;s and Colitis: Understanding the Facts About IBD (1st edition, 20 April 2006), Dr. Hillary Steinhart (a leading Canadian physician and medical professor) states that the vitamin supplement folic acid might reduce the risk of cancer but that the evidence for this possible benefit is not conclusive. Data gathered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ulcerative Colitis Advice</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2010/03/14/ulcerative-colitis-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2010/03/14/ulcerative-colitis-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colitis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my earlier post Best of the Web: Ulcerative Colitis, I listed a few websites recommended by health professionals. Now I would like to say that I also like the University of Maryland writeup.
Here are the main lifestyle suggestions I found on these websites:
1) Exercise. And note that endurance exercise, such as long-distance running and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Household Ozone Generators</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2010/03/05/dangerous-household-ozone-generators/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2010/03/05/dangerous-household-ozone-generators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I looked up information about in-home ozone generators. A friend of mine was thinking of buying a house in Arizona (she bought it), and the sellers were using indoor ozone generators. The ozone gave my friend a severe headache and caused her blood pressure to rise to dangerous levels. (She takes blood-pressure medication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding BPA in Plastic</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/12/11/avoiding-bpa-in-plastic/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/12/11/avoiding-bpa-in-plastic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a good article on plastics and BPA (Bisphenol A), see this National Wildlife Federation Article. The authors identify the plastic products that contain BPA and they tell you how avoid them.
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		<title>Beware of Advice from Meetup.com Members</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/10/07/beware-of-advice-from-meetup-com-members/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/10/07/beware-of-advice-from-meetup-com-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you join a Meetup.com activity, let&#8217;s say a hiking group, and you hear the members giving out impromptu advice regarding survival, health, injury, etc., make sure you consult a professional, too, or at least do some reading. 
You might find that at a monthly hikers&#8217; meeting, an attractive know-it-all is showing you a stretching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tart Cherries May Help Sleep</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/08/09/tart-cherries-may-help-sleep/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/08/09/tart-cherries-may-help-sleep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AOL Travel has an interesting short article about how tart cherries may help fight jet lag. The cherries contain small amounts of melatonin, a hormone that co-regulates sleep patterns.
AOL: Tart Cherries
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		<title>Macular Degeneration and Lasik Surgery</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/01/macular-degeneration-and-lasik-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2009/07/01/macular-degeneration-and-lasik-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For up-to-date news about age-related blindness and macular degeneration, see the Macular Degeneration News page, and for links to web sites, clinics, and doctors specializing in macular degeneration, see the Macular Degeneration Links page.
You will also find daily health news on the new Macular Degeneration News Blog.
lasik.lastmed.com presents the latest news pertaining to Lasik surgery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calcium</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/10/calcium/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/10/calcium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are unable to eat milk products or if you are taking a medication such as prednisone, you should definitely take calcium supplements &#8212; at least 1000 mg of calcium per day, divided into 2 to 4 doses. Never take more that 500 mg of calcium at one sitting during the day: your body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Resource on Herbs and Alternative Medicine</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/13/great-resource-on-herbs-and-alternative-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2007/02/13/great-resource-on-herbs-and-alternative-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Maryland Medical Center is one of the very best online references for finding out about herbs. The site comes with a variety of cross-reference tools: Conditions by Organ and Body System, Interactions by Drug, Conditions by Signs and Symptoms, Interactions by Herb or Supplement, Herbs &#038; Supplements by Uses, and Depletions by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Venom</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/11/23/desert-venom/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/11/23/desert-venom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a number of medical professionals still recommend applying a tourniquet to rattlesnake bites (and then briefly releasing the tourniquet every 15 to 20 minutes), Tony Nester, the author of Desert Survival Tips, Tricks, &#038; Skills (Flagstaff: Diamond Creek Press, 2003), writes that most of the doctors he spoke to advise against applying a tourniquet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesothelioma and Asbestos Information</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/10/01/mesothelioma-and-asbestos-information/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/10/01/mesothelioma-and-asbestos-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical References]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lastmed.com/2007/10/01/mesothelioma-and-asbestos-information/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We often hear of opportunists building rather shallow web sites around mesothelioma and asbestos so that they might obtain top dollar from contextual pay-per-click Google Adsense advertisements (Google crawls participating web sites and serves ads that match each site&#8217;s content).  Or the myth is that content related to mesothelioma will bring webmasters some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Serves You Right?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/30/it-serves-you-right/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/30/it-serves-you-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So your grandparents passed down one or two genetic vulnerabilities and you have become ill with a genetic disease (maybe arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, or breast cancer). And you know that you did not bring on your condition, you know that it is not your fault, and your doctors and friends know that much, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of the Web: Ulcerative Colitis</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/16/best-of-the-web-ulcerative-colitis/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/16/best-of-the-web-ulcerative-colitis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digestion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A staff member at a local hospital recommended these medical sites as good, reliable and reputable sources of information pertaining to ulcerative colitis and IBD:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/colitis/
http://www.ccfa.org/info/about/ucp
http://mayoclinic.com
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		<title>Ulcerative Colitis and Diet</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/09/ulcerative-colitis-and-diet/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/09/09/ulcerative-colitis-and-diet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colitis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for dietary methods for toning down the symptoms of ulcerative colitis, read Dr. Barry Sears&#8217; book The Anti-Inflammation Zone: Reversing the Silent Epidemic That&#8217;s Destroying Our Health, where he explains how to remove grains from your meals and how to balance protein, good fat, and favorable carbohydrate.  
If you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotator Cuff</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/08/23/rotator-cuff/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/08/23/rotator-cuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today my doctor told me that I had pinched one of the shoulder muscles attached to my rotator cuff and that the muscle is swollen.  I&#8217;m supposed to stay away from the computer because holding my arm horizontally in ways that allow gravity to pull on it will just make my injured muscle swell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Ovarian Cancer &#8211; Important Information</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/29/signs-of-ovarian-cancer-important-information/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/29/signs-of-ovarian-cancer-important-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This e-mail was forwarded to me:
> I considered not forwarding this info. I had it in my inbox for months.
>
> SIGNS OF OVARIAN CANCER (even in the absence of Ovaries) THIS IS A
> MUST TO READ TO THE END. . . .
>
Basically, it was a new form of a discredited e-mail that has been circulating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Organic?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/is-it-organic/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/is-it-organic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicine.armed.us/2006/07/15/is-it-organic/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you tell if the food you buy is organic? See this government USDA factsheet and this USDA brochure.
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		<title>Drug-induced Gastrointestinal Disorders</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/drug-induced-gastrointestinal-disorders/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/drug-induced-gastrointestinal-disorders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digestion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicine.armed.us/2006/07/15/drug-induced-gastrointestinal-disorders/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: To view the article with Web enhancements, go to:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/437034
It is important to figure out what is bothering your digestive tract, since indigestion is not only a symptom but a condition that can lead to more serious ailments. You should be aware of how your medications affect your digestion and you should probably avoid foods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabbage Cures?</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/cabbage-cures/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/15/cabbage-cures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say cabbage heals ulcers and prevents cancer.  Here is one great site for finding information: The World&#8217;s Healthiest Foods: Cabbage.
Some people drink cabbage juice (the fresh juice is sweet, with a bit if an edge). If you buy a good WIDE MOUTHED juicer, the process is quite easy. 
Others go on cabbage soup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age-related Blindness</title>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/12/age-related-blindness/</link>
		<comments>http://lastmed.com/2006/07/12/age-related-blindness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvdmaxwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For news and links pertaining to macular degeneration, see Macular Degeneration Links and Macular Degeneration News.
]]></description>
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