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		<title>How to Raise Confident Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask ten people about the best way to raise children, and you’ll get at least eleven different opinions. All correct in the eyes of the holder. The opinions range from “Children don’t need discipline if parents model good behavior” to “Children come to us wild and need to be broken.” Yikes! You don’t need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mercury Contradiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bette Dowdell Did’ja ever get the feeling you’re in Wonderland looking for Alice? Where two plus two doesn’t equal four any more, and too much of what you see offers only puzzlement? For instance, our powers that be outlawed mercury thermometers. Better you shouldn’t know your temperature than risk breaking a thermometer that could leak, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Brain Damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bette Dowdell Every day of every year, people across the fruited plain engage in do-it-yourself brain damage. Sadly, we have no idea what we’re doing.. How can this be? I’m glad you asked. First, some background: Along the bottom of the brain is a small, sort of pancake-shaped thingy called the hypothalamus. And although it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangerous Truth About Soy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bette Dowdell There’s a huge soy bandwagon roaring down the tracks. It’s everywhere; 60% of prepared foods contain soy. Even some vitamins, too. Can we talk about this? Of course it’s everywhere; it’s the cheapest and easiest crop to grow. Farmers make some money. Food manufacturers get a little more profit. Certainly nothing wrong with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thyroid Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bette Dowdell Back in the olden days–say 1960–doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands. Ah, but then blood tests, purportedly able to diagnose thyroid problems, came on the scene. Symptoms, being anecdotal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salting Your Way to Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bette Dowdell So, let’s talk about salt. Poor salt! It pours out its very life to benefit mankind and gets only disdain in return. Well, maybe that’s a little over the top, but salt doesn’t deserve the bad rap it gets. It’s not manna from heaven, but it’s good stuff. Essential to life stuff. Here’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Cholesterol</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 00:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we all get over our fixation on cholesterol? I mean, now that it’s clear that cholesterol isn’t what’s causing heart disease? But, but, but, if cholesterol is building up in my arteries, doesn’t that mean cholesterol’s the problem? Actually, no. Your cholesterol is simply trying to patch up arterial raw spots caused by inflammation–which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Get There From Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man stops to ask directions, only to be told, "You can't get there from here. If you were in Freeport, you could get there, but you can't get there from here."

So he asks how to get to Freeport. "See.  That’s the hard part. You can't get to Freeport."]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Strength Through Muscle Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a much mourned fact of life that watching exercise videos doesn't build muscles. It takes sweat and effort to build muscles. And so it is with emotional muscles. ]]></description>
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