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		<title>Free automatic reciprocal link exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a free automatic reciprocal link exchange. The exchange works by recording the referrer document from an incoming hit, which means that when your website links to our homepage, your site gets an automatic link back from the Medical Health homepage. (But please, no adult sites.)
Your link appears below every time you send traffic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/04/27/free-automatic-reciprocal-link-exchange/</link>
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		<title>Mental Illness in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for a recent debate on the topic of mental illness (aka mental health), then take a look at the June 2008 editions (both online and print) of the Globe and Mail newspaper. Here is one response to their series of articles that I particularly liked, The face of mental illness.
This series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/06/24/mental-illness-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Living for Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was told that Europeans do not &#8220;live to work,&#8221; they &#8220;work to live.&#8221; And I once read that European women prefer rather unambitious husbands &#8212; Europeans cherish time and European women feel that overachievers spend way too much psychological and physical time away from their wives and families.
What has ambition brought us? Early death [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/04/01/living-for-work/</link>
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		<title>Spinal Stenosis and Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my friends will soon find out if she needs surgery for spinal stenosis, a narrowing of her spine. Back surgery can be dangerous and often only partially alleviates the pain and immobility associated with spinal problems.  I made an online search. The reputable sites recommend that patients obtain second opinions before proceeding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/04/01/spinal-stenosis-and-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Weight Loss and Wu-Yi Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us prefer green tea, not Wu-Yi.
I think we hear about obesity daily, how it contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and  shorter lifespans. And we are bombarded by news and advertisements of diet plans and exercises and even surgical techniques. Not only are a vast number of adults fighting weight gain, our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/03/30/weight-loss-and-wu-yi-tea/</link>
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		<title>The American Presidency: Selfish Candidates or Candidates for Selfishness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The headlines today are &#8220;Mitt Romney quits after pouring $35 million of his own money into failed campaign.&#8221; Of course, we all know that Mitt Romney was running in the Republican primary, the race in which Republican voters choose which Republican leader will run against the Democrats for the U.S. presidency. But I do not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/02/07/selfish-candidates-or-candidates-for-selfishness/</link>
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		<title>Fitness and the Superbowl?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Super Bowl was boring, as usual (you know . . . football) and had way too many TV commercials, as usual. And Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers&#8217; half-time show was like brown snow &#8212; tired winter, dead flowers, bronchitis brought on by lifestyle &#8212; which brings me to my point: The half-time show&#8217;s producer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2008/02/03/fitness-and-the-superbowl/</link>
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		<title>Mesothelioma and Asbestos Information</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/10/01/mesothelioma-and-asbestos-information/</link>
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		<title>Spa and Salon Software Bundles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I imagine that as the baby boomers retire and grow older a great number of them will not only access medical and pharmaceutical systems more often but also health spas and gyms. Baby boomers are staying active longer (resulting in more sports injuries, and then follow ups with physical therapists) and many of them have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/09/16/spa-and-salon-software-bundles/</link>
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		<title>Advances in Cigarette Cessation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jude Lewis submitted this entry:
Stopping smoking is now considerably more complicated than it was when I was a little kid. While everyone agrees addiction to nicotine is the primary reason cigarettes are so hard to quit, not everyone agrees that the prescription of antidepressants is a safe solution. Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and dopamine reuptake inhibitors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/05/06/advances-in-cigarette-cessation/</link>
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		<title>The Carnival of Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a short note to say that my earlier post where I explained that consumers should refrigerate Emu Oil was &#8220;published&#8221; in the 84th Carnival of Healing.
You may submit your best blog entries to a variety of sites and subject areas listed on blogcarnival.com.
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		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/05/06/the-carnival-of-healing/</link>
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		<title>Truth is Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quote from John Updike&#8217;s book Seek My Face, page 48:
Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth. The only virtue left in this day and age is courage before the hopeless.
He means your courage best serves the hopeless.
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		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/05/03/truth-is-ugly/</link>
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		<title>War and Immortality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent this to CTV News:
Comment re. your 27 April 2007 piece about cancer rates
During the 20th and 21st centuries, we spent a lot of money on war &#8212; World Wars I and II, to name just the big ones. If we had spent all that time, energy, money, and life on life-extension, we would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/28/war-and-immortality/</link>
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		<title>The Virginia Tech Shootings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Universities should act quickly and institute compulsory courses in ethics and human kindness. We can show a substantial number of people that goodwill provides positive benefits.
I hate to say this, but when you provoke people, it is then pretty easy to run around saying that they might be a danger to you or someone else.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/19/the-virginia-tech-shootings/</link>
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		<title>Emu Oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have noticed that some stores offer to refill your small bottles of emu oil for a discount. They usually dispense the &#8220;new&#8221; oil from a large bottle they keep at room temperature under the counter. But the emu-oil manufacturers say, &#8220;For extended storage refrigerate unused portion.&#8221;
Emu oil is a fat, and fats go rancid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/11/emu-oil/</link>
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		<title>Inflammation: The Speed of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the anti-inflammatory drug prednisone makes it difficult to sleep&#8211;that&#8217;s one of the side effects&#8211;but not only that, it takes my sense of time back to a childhood level: time slows down (so to speak), days seem longer, not as rushed.
As we age, we say that the years just keep going by faster and faster, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/11/inflammation-the-speed-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Calcium</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/10/calcium/</link>
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		<title>World Health and Arrogant Ecologists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We cannot assert that all ecologists and environmentalists are arrogant, but I have encountered quite a few who would have made stronger contributions had they attended compulsory courses in ethics and human kindness. In fact, I believe that many of our professional conservationists have retarded our fight against global warming. If we had replaced them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/04/07/world-health-and-arrogant-ecologists/</link>
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		<title>Doing It For The Next Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pharmacist once told me, &#8220;You have to do it for the next guy.&#8221;
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		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/03/27/doing-it-for-the-next-guy/</link>
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		<title>Slander, libel, gossip, rumor, hearsay and betrayal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A doctor once told me, &#8220;You are their movie and they want you to be the bad guy.&#8221;
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		<link>http://lastmed.com/2007/03/16/slander-libel-gossip-rumor-hearsay-and-betrayal/</link>
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