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Health Headlines - November 7
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Meredy
FDA Issues Warning Letters To Flavored Cigarette SellersWarning letters have been sent to companies using Web sites to sell illegal flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.A ban on the sale of candy- or fruit-flavored cigarettes that took effect Sept. 22 is meant to reduce the number of children and teens ...
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bob's red mill holiday baking sale
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Rabbit
Two sales announcements in one morning! Bob's Red Mill is having a sale on holiday baking essentials, including gluten-free flours, baking soda, baking powder, brown sugar, xanthan gum, and gluten-free oats. There's no promotion code, just visit the Monthly Specials page to see the discounted prices. Note that not every product on the specials page ...
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New Bike Love
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Karen Voyer-Caravona
No, I don't have a new bike and still am passionate about the Breezer Uptown 8 but my eye did wander this week. The story in brief as follows: The Running Bob and I visited Absolute Bikes early in the week so that he could reserve his bike rental for this weekends Blue Water Triathlon. As we walked in Bob nodded his head toward a vision of lovelin ...
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Mangalorean Style Mackerel Dry Curry
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Niyaprakash
Mangalorean Style Mackerel Dry Curry ( Bangude Dry Curry )Ingredients12 medium sized mackerels ( or 25 sardines / boothai ), clean and make 3 - 4 horizontal slitsFor masala:For dry roasting:25 whole red chilies 2 tablespoon coriander seeds 1 teaspoon jeera 1/2 teaspoon methi ( fenugreek ) seeds A pinch of ajwain ( optional ) Dry roast all the ab ...
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De-stressing in the Car
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Paulineh
Image via WikipediaDriving to work or anywhere for that matter during peak periods can be a very stress experience. We seem to get all the red lights or they aren’t working, banked up traffic and construction zones. There is also the noise and pollution associated with driving in the city. The kids can get bored and restless and you arrive ...
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Desmoplastic melanoma, a common missed diagnosis.
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Dr.Prashant Jani
Introduction: Although desmoplastic melanoma represents less than 2 percent of all melanomas, it's frequently misdiagnosed, due to a lack of distinctive clinical presentation features. Histologic diagnosis is rarely straightforward either. Patients are often middle age-to-elderly and present with the tumor most often on the head and neck region. ...
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Ankle again
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Clare
Andra's back in full swing...happy again (we had a fussy couple of days, highly unusual), crawling like a champ, and getting much better at standing without falling over (for a couple seconds at least!). We just found out the insurance company WILL pay for her hemangioma surgery (well, 80% of it since the doctor is out of network) which is now sch ...
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Dipping a Toe in the Alternative Medicine Waters (Part I)
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Alyson
My journey down the path of alternative medicine began due to the influence of my current doctor. She is an Internal Medicine doctor who treats many patients with HIV/AIDS or CFS. I think she is used to dealing with patients who have been marginalized or brushed off by others in the healthcare field. She has an amazing amount of compassion for her ...
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Drilling Down: Saturated Fat Epidemiology
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Richard Nikoley
I've got to get this reader data out there; sooooo, the post I've been planning and writing to slam dunk a certain "researcher" from New Zealand will just have to wait until the first of next week. I'd planned to incorporate that with this, per my style, but I'll just have to link it.Whenever back when, I did a post on saturated fat ...
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