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		<title>Scientists Discover New Flu-Fighting Proteins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pandemic, but not &#8211; so far &#8211; a particularly deadly one. Health officials are still concerned, though, that the H1N1 influenza virus may acquire the right mutations during this initial period of infection to make it a much more formidable foe during the next year. Which is why scientists are still working feverishly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity Gene Discovered, New Excuse Already Prepared</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve got thyroid problems.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m just big boned.&#8221; &#8220;I eat way more calories than I need, even if I were to run two marathons every single day of my life. That is why rolls of my abdominal fat are spilling over the armrest onto your seat.&#8221; People use all sorts of excuses to justify their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacteria Really Hate Us: Intestinal Microbes May Be Causing Human Obesity</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Disease Origins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epidemiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[do bacteria cause obesity?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firmicutes bacteria and obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gut microbes and bacteria may cause obesity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bacteria, eh? Nasty little things. Strutting around, with their tiny little genomes, doing nothing but bringing misery to mankind: food poisoning; meningitis; halitosis and&#8230;obesity? That&#8217;s the theory being put forward in a new paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Here&#8217;s the basics of this study: researchers from St Louis and Boulder, headed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hajj And H1N1: Religious Pilgrimage And Epidemiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scientific and religious worlds are soon to collide in an unusual way (that is, one which doesn&#8217;t involve Richard Dawkins, a Southern minister, and several tedious hours spent shouting questions at each other about the shape of giraffe&#8217;s intestines and the discovery of fish fossils on mountaintops). No, this time the stakes are rather [...]]]></description>
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