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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On Nutrition: Reduced Fat&#8230; What Does it Really Mean?</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/07/15/on-nutrition-reduced-fat-what-does-it-really-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taking Care of Ourselves</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eating Well]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food For Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health and Wellness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of short articles intended to help you better understand your nutrition options.
By Donna Paquette
Today it seems we need to have a degree in nutrition in order to decode the content of a product. Does anyone control what’s placed on a label? Who decides the difference between whole and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing loss and hearing aid primer</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/04/20/hearing-loss-and-hearing-aid-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/04/20/hearing-loss-and-hearing-aid-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Preventative Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hearing aids]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hearing loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re in the age group that is just now beginning to regret listening to those loud rock concerts of your youth, you’re in good company. About one in six boomers have a hearing loss according to the Better Hearing Institute, a non-profit educational group financed by the hearing aid industry. The AARP reports that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Treatment, But a $240 Medical Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/03/09/no-treatment-but-a-240-medical-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/03/09/no-treatment-but-a-240-medical-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[autoimmune disorder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Gombassy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hartford Courant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hospital billing error]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[improper billing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Manchester Memorial Hospital]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical billing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Karl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last November, my wife and I had to make a trip to the emergency room of a local hospital. I&#8217;d like to tell you about our experience there and what happened after they gave us a bill without delivering any service. This is exactly what happened to us as reported in yesterday&#8217;s (3/8/09) Watchdog column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrabble as service</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/02/13/scrabble-as-service/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/02/13/scrabble-as-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food For Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health and Wellness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disabled]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scrabble]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[volunteering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vidacura.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that for the vast majority of Americans, we all talk a good game about civic service but as the saying goes, we don&#8217;t &#8220;walk the walk&#8221; as often as we could. This is a story about one person&#8217;s experience at helping.
My wife and I have a 21 year old son in the house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Company Gifts are Bad Medicine</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/01/03/drug-company-gifts-are-bad-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2009/01/03/drug-company-gifts-are-bad-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food For Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post was written by Dr. Stephen R. Smith, professor of family medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
One way to thank someone for giving you a gift is to say; &#8220;I&#8217;m obliged.&#8221; That&#8217;s exactly what drug companies want doctors to say for the gifts, large and small, that they bestow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare reform- it&#8217;s about information and choices, stupid!</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/12/19/healthcare-reform-its-about-information-and-choices-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/12/19/healthcare-reform-its-about-information-and-choices-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting articles caught my attention this week and I hope you’ll take the time to read them too. What’s the Right Decision appearing in the Fall edition of Cure magazine and written by Jeffrey Belora, director of Decision Services at University of California, San Francisco Breast Care Center and then in the 12/22 BusinessWeek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Twinkie Effect&#8221; or &#8220;How to get an additional $557 tax incentive&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/21/the-twinkie-effect-or-how-to-get-an-additional-557-tax-incentive/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/21/the-twinkie-effect-or-how-to-get-an-additional-557-tax-incentive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Berk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health and Wellness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Preventative Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tax incentive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Twinkie Effect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think we’re all beginning to figure out that to a large degree, We the People are going to have to fix some of this country’s problems ourselves. We’ve heard some great plans for fixing our broken healthcare system. Over the next few weeks, I’d like to offer up some ideas about what we each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compression Stockings: Tips for Savvy Shopping</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/compression-stockings-tips-for-savvy-shopping/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/compression-stockings-tips-for-savvy-shopping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taking Care of Ourselves</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Preventative Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic venous insufficiency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Compression Stockings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lymphedema]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[post-thrombotic syndrome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Support Socks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Varicose Veins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vidacura.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[




































Support socks can
prevent fatigue.



Are you shopping for:
Support socks for a cross-country plane trip or to prevent the achy legs and swollen feet that come with long hours of sitting or standing on the job?
Compression stockings to deal with mild-to-moderate aches, pains, leg and ankle swelling, and varicose veins or to hasten recovery after leg surgery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whole Grains: Hearty and Healthy Foods</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/whole-grains-hearty-and-healthy-foods/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/whole-grains-hearty-and-healthy-foods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taking Care of Ourselves</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eating Well]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food For Thought]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Antioxidants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cardiovascular Disease]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CVD]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health and Wellness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minerals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reduce Cancer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Starch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sugars]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Whole Grains]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.vidacura.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[




































Cooked grains
have been
a food staple
for over
5000 years.



Whole grains or foods made from them contain all the essential parts and naturally-occurring nutrients of the entire grain seed. Their health effects have been evident for centuries. Indeed, when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote &#8220;Let food by thy medicine and let medicine be thy food,&#8221; he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimists Live Longer, Study Says</title>
		<link>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/optimists-live-longer-study-says/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.vidacura.com/2008/10/17/optimists-live-longer-study-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taking Care of Ourselves</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Wellness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medical Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Live Longer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Optimism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pessimism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[




































Is your glass half-full or
half-empty?



Are you an optimist or a pessimist? How long (and healthily) you live may depend on your answer. 
Over the past decade, studies have shown conclusively that having a good attitude influences physical health. And that certain personality traits - especially being optimistic, but also being extroverted and conscientious and open [...]]]></description>
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