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		<title>UNICEF says hunger causes stunted growth in early 200 million children around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children

ROME — Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.
The head of a U.N. food agency called on the world to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNICEF: Nearly 200 million children are undernourished and have stunted growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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UN: 200 million kids have stunted growth
LONDON — Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because they don&#8217;t get enough to eat, according to a new report published Wednesday by UNICEF.

The vast majority are in Asia and Africa: more than 90 percent of children with stunted growth live on those two continents.
&#8220;Unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of Oklahoma seniors rally to protest cuts to nutrition programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Talley</dc:creator>
		
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Okla. seniors protest cuts to nutrition programs

OKLAHOMA CITY — Hundreds of seniors waved empty paper plates Wednesday to protest cutbacks in nutrition programs for the elderly that could eliminate thousands of meals for some of Oklahoma&#8217;s most vulnerable citizens.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not right,&#8221; rally organizer Charlie Campbell said as about 400 seniors, some using wheelchairs or leaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US, lawyers concerned as Guantanamo&#8217;s longest hunger striker loses weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Fox</dc:creator>
		
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Guantanamo hunger striker losing weight
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk.

Abdul Rahman Shalabi, who is fed liquid nutrients through a nasal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unable themselves to put government on a diet, Congress and Obama could go Jenny Craig route</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/unable-themselves-to-put-government-on-a-diet-congress-and-obama-could-go-jenny-craig-route-207439/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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Congress could try Jenny Craig route on debt

WASHINGTON — If Congress can&#8217;t stop itself from spending the nation into everlasting debt, give the controls to somebody else.
Who says?
A sizeable number of senators themselves.
An unpopular but must-pass vote next month to let the government borrow almost $1 trillion has nine Senate Democrats saying enough is enough. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food industry stops promoting &#8220;Smart Choices&#8221; after FDA says it will tackle misleading labels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Skidmore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Ore. — A food industry group is voluntarily halting promotion of its nutrition labeling program after federal regulators said such systems may be misleading consumers, officials with the group said Friday.

Industry leaders launched the &#8220;Smart Choices&#8221; program in August to identify foods that meet certain nutritional standards and then highlight them for consumers with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food industry suspends nutrition labeling program activity over regulatory concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Ore. — The Smart Choices nutrition labeling program, created voluntarily by nine large U.S. manufacturers, is halting after federal regulators said such systems could mislead consumers, officials with the labeling group said Friday.

Industry leaders launched the program this year to highlight foods that meet certain nutritional standards with a green label on package fronts.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Froot Loops, Cocoa Puffs are &#8216;Smart Choices&#8217;? FDA warns food producers about inaccurate claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Perrone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Ever wondered how that &#8220;Smart Choices&#8221; sticker wound up on the front of Froot Loops or Cocoa Puffs?

Well, federal health officials are having similar thoughts, and they&#8217;re warning food manufacturers.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that nutritional logos from food manufacturers may be misleading consumers about the actual health benefits of cereal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA rejects labeling claims on vitamin C-enhanced version of Vicks Nyquil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Perrone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators warned Procter &#038; Gamble on Wednesday for adding Vitamin C to its Vicks cold formulas, a combination not allowed by federal regulations.

The Food and Drug Administration said medications like Vicks Nyquil and Dayquil are not permitted to contain the vitamin.
According to the agency, a panel of experts found &#8220;no study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate sends Obama agriculture spending bill boosting aid to dairy farmers, food stamp program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Dairy farmers suffering from low milk prices would benefit from $350 million in emergency funding approved by the Senate on Thursday as it cleared a $121 billion agriculture spending bill for President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature.

The bill also delivers a record $58.2 billion for the food stamp program, which when combined with benefit increases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nutrition, food stamp, dairy programs among winners in spending bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Abrams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Nutrition, food stamp and dairy aid programs were among the winners as the House on Wednesday approved a $121 billion agriculture spending bill for the 2010 budget year.

Reflecting the growing number of people scrambling to get by in tough economic times, the bill provides $58.2 billion for the food stamp program, a jump [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would-be pro baseball player warns of dietary supplements containing dangerous steroids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederic J. Frommer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Jareem Gunter, a college baseball player with dreams of playing professionally, thought he had found a &#8220;diamond in the rough,&#8221; a safe and legal dietary supplement that would make him healthier.

Instead, he told Congress on Tuesday, &#8220;It gave me liver failure.&#8221; Gunter said the experience with Superdrol four years ago, when he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress looks at supplements with steroids; baseball players union wants products tested</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frederic J. Frommer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An influential senator is looking into whether Congress should re-regulate dietary supplements because steroids and other banned substances are finding their way into over-the-counter bodybuilding products.

Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Democrat and Philadelphia Phillies fan, is convening a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the issue Tuesday.
He said his interest was piqued in part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When baseball is the only escape from poverty, some Dominicans see steroids as worth the risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan M. Katz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic — A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as &#8220;the cradle of shortstops.&#8221; Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind tin shanties and on fields cut from sugar plantations.

Bernardino Jimenez was one of those kids. He became a victim of his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multinationals selling baby formula in Vietnam break milk law meant to promote breastfeeding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HANOI, Vietnam — Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found.

International guidelines and Vietnamese law recognize breast milk as superior to formula for an infant&#8217;s health. Yet dozens of interviews with mothers, doctors, health officials and shopkeepers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA chief warns industry, part of drive to restore agency&#8217;s image after Bush-era product woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Perrone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A pledge Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s new chief to crack down on companies that break the law reflects her effort to restore the agency&#8217;s image after high-profile safety problems during the Bush administration.

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told an audience of food and drug company lawyers they should expect to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New food safety standards for eggs, meat, vegetables being adopted by Obama administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Clare Jalonick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The White House is trying to make Americans&#8217; food safer after recent recalls of popular products like peanut butter and cookie dough.

A food safety working group established by President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the government will try and boost the safety of some of the nation&#8217;s most popular foods, announcing stricter rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A free lunch: Other cities look to replicate Philly&#8217;s no-strings-attached school meal program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Matheson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA — For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch — and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached.

The Philadelphia school district&#8217;s unique program provides free food for all children in schools with a high percentage of low-income students, dispensing with the cumbersome forms parents must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No ifs, ands or butts: Obama signs anti-smoking bill, cites own struggle with cigarettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Elliott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he got hooked on as a teenager as he signed the nation&#8217;s strongest-ever anti-smoking bill Monday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for kids.

&#8220;The decades-long effort to protect our children from the harmful effects of tobacco has emerged victorious,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama signs anti-smoking measure, saying it will help keep children from getting hooked</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed the strongest anti-smoking measure ever, calling it an extraordinary accomplishment that will help keep children from getting hooked on cigarettes.

Standing in the Rose Garden with a number of lawmakers and other guests, Obama declared: &#8220;It is a law that will save American lives.&#8221;
The legislation gives the Food and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No ifs, ands or butts: Obama lauds anti-smoking bill giving FDA authority over tobacco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed the strongest anti-smoking measure ever, calling it an extraordinary accomplishment that will help keep children from getting hooked on cigarettes.

Standing in the Rose Garden with a number of lawmakers and other guests, Obama declared: &#8220;It is a law that will save American lives.&#8221;
The legislation gives the Food and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No ifs, ands or butts: Obama to sign anti-smoking bill giving FDA authority over tobacco</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.

Obama is scheduled to sign the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act during an event Monday in the Rose Garden. The law allows the FDA to reduce nicotine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction and death: Regulating tobacco products is a personal issue for many senators</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Abrams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin was just 10 or 11 when he and his cousin Mike sneaked out behind a garage in East St. Louis, Ill., to have a smoke, Durbin&#8217;s first. He didn&#8217;t care much for the taste of the cigarette but, unfortunately, Mike did.

Mike died two weeks ago of tobacco-related lung disease.
&#8220;There he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lab tests show many supplements have contaminants, unlabeled contents, misstated amounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilynn Marchione</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby&#8217;s colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in &#8220;natural&#8221; products and dietary supplements in recent years.

Set aside the issue of whether vitamin and herbal supplements do any good.
Are they safe? Is what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP IMPACT: Hospitals try acupuncture and &#8216;mumbo jumbo&#8217; as alternative medicine goes mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilynn Marchione</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE — At one of the nation&#8217;s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient&#8217;s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.

They are doing Reiki therapy, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama pick for FDA chief pledges to restore public&#8217;s confidence in troubled agency</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-pick-for-fda-chief-pledges-to-restore-publics-confidence-in-troubled-agency-56526/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama&#8217;s pick to oversee food and drug safety says she will revamp the FDA to better protect the nation&#8217;s food supply and help prevent outbreaks of illness.

Dr. Margaret Hamburg, a bioterrorism expert who once served as New York City health commissioner, also says she wants to restore public confidence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants more money for pandemic flu preparations, food safety inspectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — With the swine flu still claiming victims, President Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 budget would devote an additional $584 million to pandemic flu preparation efforts.

That&#8217;s on top of $1.5 billion Obama requested from Congress for this year when the flu first emerged. The House Appropriations Committee approved that request Thursday and added an additional $550 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True to their image, French top leisure habits list for eating and sleeping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS — The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at the two leisure activities, spending more time at table and in bed than many other nations.

The Paris-based Organization for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada says 1st pigs found with new swine flu virus, but says no food safety risk</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/canada-says-1st-pigs-found-with-new-swine-flu-virus-but-says-no-food-safety-risk-49581/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 07:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charmaine Noronha</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA — Pigs on a Canadian farm have been infected with the new swine flu virus — apparently by a farm worker back from Mexico — and are under quarantine, officials said Saturday. It is the first known case of pigs having the virus.

But officials quickly urged caution. Swine flu regularly causes outbreaks in pigs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US swine flu cases near 100, spread to 11 states; Obama mourns first death _ in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The swine flu outbreak began hitting home across the U.S. Wednesday, spreading to 11 states and closing schools amid confirmation of the first U.S. death — a Mexican toddler who visited Texas with his family — and the confinement of dozens of Marines after one came down with the disease in California.

Some 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US swine flu cases near 100, Obama mourns death in Texas; spread deepens in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Geneva-based World Trade Organization on Wednesday raised its alert level for the fast-spreading swine flu to its next-to-highest notch, signaling a global pandemic could be imminent.

The move came after the virus spread to at least 10 U.S. states from coast to coast and swept deeper into Europe.
&#8220;It really is all of humanity [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauran Neergaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>US swine flu cases near 100, Obama mourns death in Texas; spread deepens in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>US swine flu cases near 100, Obama mourns death in Texas; spread deepens in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fla. pharmacy says supplement given to 21 polo horses that died was incorrectly made</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Skoloff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Unable to legally bring a supplement into the U.S. to make their horses more resilient, a Venezuelan polo team used another way to get ready for a champion match: Have a pharmacy mix up the concoction. What happened next, though, was disastrous. The chemicals were mixed wrong, and 21 horses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Venezuelan polo team member links commonly used supplement to deaths of 21 polo horses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Skoloff</dc:creator>
		
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Juan Martin Nero, of Lechuza Polo, told the newspaper La Nacion for Wednesday&#8217;s editions that the horses were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt as the new food villain: NYC presses industry to reduce sodium, save lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Nano</dc:creator>
		
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