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	<title>Dr. John Hong &#187; Digestive System</title>
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		<title>Athletic GI Problem &#124; Running into Trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pathetic&#8211; a good term to describe my my aerobic endurance. I can&#8217;t tell you the number of times I&#8217;ve vomited or almost vomited from intense workouts. Once while playing tennis I lobbed the ball really high to allow myself time to vomit by the fence and then continue the rally. (Then I won the point!)
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hepatitis C &#124; Should you be screened like Pamela Anderson?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2011/hepatitis-c-should-you-be-screened-like-pamela-anderson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 18:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamela Anderson is one of the biggest blond bombshells in the history of Hollywood.  I have never watched an episode of Baywatch, but I still know her famous look in the red swimsuit while carrying that funny little floating device that looks like a huge suppository. 
   In 2002, she announced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gastric Cancer &#124; Hard to Stomach for Many Asians</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2011/gastric-cancer-hard-to-stomach-for-many-asians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you stomach it? I&#8217;ve learned, with my middle-aged wisdom, to learn to be more tolerant of things that don&#8217;t quite settle well in my stomach, such as news stations named after animals, bumper stickers that say &#8220;Bite Me,&#8221; and Charlie Sheen.
Asian people in general have strong stomachs, which is why we can eat spicy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mallory-Weiss Tears &#124; Vomiting Up Blood</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2011/mallory-weiss-tears-vomiting-up-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starvin&#8217; like Marvin! Yes, don&#8217;t we all feel that from time to time? You know you shouldn&#8217;t eat it, but it taunts you. It whispers to you, &#8220;C&#8217;mon. Eat me. You&#8217;re hungry, and I&#8217;m delicious. Just eat me!&#8221;
Recently I ate some two-day-old baked ziti that had been out of the fridge for a few hours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constipation &#124; Are you backed up? Video</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/constipation-are-you-backed-up-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/constipation-are-you-backed-up-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;I&#8217;m on hold,&#8221; is something all of us have said. With companies facing increasing demands but less profit, we&#8217;re being put on hold everywhere. Even on the computer-help chat rooms, I&#8217;m put &#8220;on hold&#8221; sometimes for 30 minutes&#8211; which isn&#8217;t so bad because while waiting I can play Solitaire and read the latest entertainment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox29 Philadelphia &#124; Botox, Depression, Colon Bacteria</title>
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		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/fox29-philadelphia-botox-depression-colon-bacteria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gastritis &#124; Follow Your Gut Feeling and See the Doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/gastritis-follow-your-gut-feeling-and-see-the-doctor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/gastritis-follow-your-gut-feeling-and-see-the-doctor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digestive System]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Can you stomach it?&#8221; That&#8217;s a very good question. 
Having a lot of fortitude is a good thing, but some things are over the top. Enron didn&#8217;t prepare most people to stomach the alleged crimes of Goldman Sachs. No matter how many episodes of What Not to Wear, I sometimes can&#8217;t stomach how some ladies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diverticulitis &#124; Pimples of the Colon</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/diverticulitis-pimples-of-the-colon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/diverticulitis-pimples-of-the-colon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Heidi Klum, former supermodel and host of Project Runway, says, &#8220;In fashion, one day you&#8217;re in, the next you&#8217;re out.&#8221; She&#8217;s right— look at designer Isaac Mizrahi. One day he was in Nieman Marcus; now he&#8217;s in Target.
In his documentary, Unzipped, Mizrahi introduced us to the world of high fashion and dealing with supermodels like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fecal Incontinence &#124; More than just a slip</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/fecal-incontinence-more-than-just-a-slip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 &#8220;Let Go and Let God&#8221; is an expression I&#8217;ve heard for a couple of decades. I still haven&#8217;t mastered it. Actually, I can&#8217;t really say I&#8217;m trying to master it. Well, really&#8230; oh, never mind. The point is that some things are just out of our control, like the weather, traffic, and Lindsay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiber Video&#124; It&#8217;s more than a gas!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/fiber-video-its-more-than-a-gas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/fiber-video-its-more-than-a-gas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digestive System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 &#8220;Beans, Beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot.&#8221; Every kid has chanted this mantra on the playground at least once.
There are many types of beans: lima beans, kidney beans, navy beans, L.L. Bean, les-beans.
But I don&#8217;t know too many people who eat beans. I don&#8217;t eat many beans myself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cholera &#124; Diarrhea that kills</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/cholera-diarrhea-that-kills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/cholera-diarrhea-that-kills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digestive System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Good vibes? Bad vibes? Don&#8217;t we all have a sixth sense at times? The problem is that sometimes we don&#8217;t listen to our inner voice. We follow a slick vibe, like investing in Enron or hanging out with people who are more toxic than Love Canal in the &#8217;70s.
I watched a movie with Naomi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Poisoning</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/food-poisoning-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/food-poisoning-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digestive System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What can you do to prevent getting food poisoining?  It is no fun to eat something bad and end of vomiting and having diarrhea.
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		<title>Hepatitis B &#124; Liver has never tasted so bad</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/hepatitis-b-liver-has-never-tasted-so-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/hepatitis-b-liver-has-never-tasted-so-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Digestive System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Chopped liver?   When we feel undervalued, we sometimes ask, &#8220;What am I&#8211; chopped liver?&#8221; I don&#8217;t think the liver should be referenced as something undervalued, as it&#8217;s a vital organ that filters the junk in our blood. (Too bad it doesn&#8217;t filter the emotional vomit on today&#8217;s blogs and in those with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemochromotosis &#124; Too Much Iron!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/hemochromotosis-too-much-iron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/hemochromotosis-too-much-iron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Blood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When I was a kid, I used to read everything from Spider-Man to X-Men, but Iron Man was never one of my favorite comic book heroes. Who would have imagined in years to come that all these superheroes&#8217; stories would become blockbuster movies? I guess it&#8217;s like Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s hit song, &#8220;I Need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GERD is the Word &#124; Heartburn isn&#8217;t the only symptom</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/gerd-is-the-word-heartburn-isnt-the-only-symptom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/gerd-is-the-word-heartburn-isnt-the-only-symptom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 Pineapple upside down cake was something I had never experienced until my TV news producer asked me to talk about Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) with a cookbook author. I had never heard of this cook (her name escapes me&#8211; well, more likely the trauma created by her has caused a mental block. For artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemorrhoids Are a Pain in the&#8230; &#124; Video</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/hemorrhoids-are-a-pain-in-the-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/hemorrhoids-are-a-pain-in-the-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 POP is such a powerful word.  You want things to visually POP out, like a bright tie in contrast to a dark shirt.  For my webpage design, I used Opti-POP to make such I wouldn’t be ignored like Glen Close in Fatal Attraction.   As a kid, I loved my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lactose Intolerance &#124; Or should we really say lactose tolerance lucky</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/lactose-intolerance-or-should-we-really-say-lactose-tolerance-lucky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/lactose-intolerance-or-should-we-really-say-lactose-tolerance-lucky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; is probably one of the best ads ever. The milk mustache, though, is kind of weird to see on supermodels and athletes. But then again, as I get older I see that I&#8217;m starting to spill food and miss my mouth more often when I eat and drink. (Why does this happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas &#124; Fart is not a 4 letter word</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/gas-fart-is-not-a-4-letter-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/gas-fart-is-not-a-4-letter-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What a gas! How did that expression ever come about? Maybe it&#8217;s because all of have flatulence every day (i.e. we fart). One reader told me his mother said, &#8220;Fart is a four-letter word. We ‘toot&#8217; instead.&#8221;
Few people understand the terms flatulence or passing gas, and almost everyone knows fart. Does that make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nausea and Vomiting</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/nausea-and-vomiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nausea and vomiting is such a horrible feeling and experience and can be due to many reasons.  I discuss some causes of nausea and vomiting in this video.
 
 &#8220;I think I&#8217;m going to throw up,&#8221; should be a mantra for most Americans. Audits make most people throw up (and tax evaders throw up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pancreatic Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/pancreatic-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/pancreatic-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pancreatic cancer is the #4 cause of cancer deaths. Pancreatitc cancer has a low survival rate. Pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed too late, making it hard to cure
 
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		<title>Hemorrhoids Are a Pain in the&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/hemorrhoids-are-a-pain-in-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ POP is such a powerful word.  You want things to visually POP out, like a bright tie in contrast to a dark shirt.  For my webpage design, I used Opti-POP to make such I wouldn’t be ignored like Glen Close in Fatal Attraction.   As a kid, I loved my dinosaur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nausea &amp; Vomiting &#8211; Bleh!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/nausea-vomiting-bleh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;I think I&#8217;m going to throw up,&#8221; should be a mantra for most Americans. Audits make most people throw up (and tax evaders throw up their hands as they&#8217;re arrested). Most country music makes me nauseated (don&#8217;t take offense, country music fans; most people hate my show tunes).
Getting insurance pre-authorization for medicine makes my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fecal Incontinence</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/fecal-incontinence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Let Go and Let God&#8221; is an expression I&#8217;ve heard for a couple of decades. I still haven&#8217;t mastered it. Actually, I can&#8217;t really say I&#8217;m trying to master it. Well, really&#8230; oh, never mind. The point is that some things are just out of our control, like the weather, traffic, and Lindsay Lohan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constipation &#124; Are you backed up? (Video Included)</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/constipation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;I&#8217;m on hold,&#8221; is something all of us have said. With companies facing increasing demands but less profit, we&#8217;re being put on hold everywhere. Even on the computer-help chat rooms, I&#8217;m put &#8220;on hold&#8221; sometimes for 30 minutes&#8211; which isn&#8217;t so bad because while waiting I can play Solitaire and read the latest entertainment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pancreatic Cancer &#8211; Something to get an upset belly over</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/pancreatic-cancer-something-to-get-an-upset-belly-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/pancreatic-cancer-something-to-get-an-upset-belly-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hypochondria is a horrible thing. One of my best friends suffers from it &#8211; - although it&#8217;s getting better each year. I didn&#8217;t realize he suffered from hypochondria when initially he kept thinking he had testicular cancer. What he had was a groin pull. In his head it was definitely testicular cancer, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GERD is the Word for heartburn and more</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/gerd-is-the-word-for-heartburn-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/gerd-is-the-word-for-heartburn-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pineapple upside down cake was something I had never experienced until my TV news producer asked me to talk about Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) with a cookbook author. I had never heard of this cook (her name escapes me&#8211; well, more likely the trauma created by her has caused a mental block. For artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diverticulosis: Deep Pores&#8230;In The Colon</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/diverticulosis-deep-poresin-the-colon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/diverticulosis-deep-poresin-the-colon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heidi Klum, former supermodel and host of Project Runway, says, &#8220;In fashion, one day you&#8217;re in, the next you&#8217;re out.&#8221; She&#8217;s right— look at designer Isaac Mizrahi. One day he was in Nieman Marcus; now he&#8217;s in Target.
In his documentary, Unzipped, Mizrahi introduced us to the world of high fashion and dealing with supermodels like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endocannabinoids: Can you lose weight with &#8220;anti-marijuana&#8221; medicine?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/endocannabinoids-can-you-lose-weight-with-anti-marijuana-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/endocannabinoids-can-you-lose-weight-with-anti-marijuana-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endocannabinoids: losing weight?
Rosie O&#8217;Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America!  C&#8217;mon, Donald! You&#8217;re a rich successful man and, yes, your last name is &#8220;Trump, but you&#8217;re acting more like Donald Duck.
Lionel Ritchie needs to hash it out with his daughter, Nicole. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveler&#8217;s Diarrhea: don&#8217;t get pooped out during vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/travelers-diarrhea-dont-get-pooped-out-during-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/travelers-diarrhea-dont-get-pooped-out-during-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical representatives, a.k.a. pharm reps, tend to be a bit pushy because they have only seven seconds on average to talk to a doctor. I know you can say a lot in seven seconds because I&#8217;ve always been a fast talker, like Charo. On the TV news at NBC29, I usually recite the disease name, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottoms Up! Screening Colonoscopies Save Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/bottoms-up-screening-colonoscopies-save-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/bottoms-up-screening-colonoscopies-save-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My office coordinator says to me, &#8220;Someone comes in for a cold, rash, or hangnail, and they leave with an order for a screening colonoscopy.&#8221; I say to her, &#8220;I also order mammograms, do PAP smears, check prostates, and do other health maintenance things&#8211; don&#8217;t those count?&#8221; 
Are colonoscopies that dreaded? Should the name be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gluten Enteropathy &#124; Celiac Sprue &#8211; Food Allergy Causes Diarrhea and Havok</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/gluten-enteropathyceliac-sprue-food-allergy-causes-diarrhea-and-havok/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/gluten-enteropathyceliac-sprue-food-allergy-causes-diarrhea-and-havok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my friends said I write and talk about poop better than anyone else he knows. Is that a compliment or an insult? I learned in college there are three sacred things in life: eat, sleep, and poop. 
Let&#8217;s face it: our lives revolve around bowel movements. If you don&#8217;t poop enough, you get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constipation on Hold</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/constipation-on-hold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Carly Simon&#8217;s song, &#8220;Anticipation&#8221;? I never heard of the song until Heinz Ketchup used it in a commercial. (In the commercial, the anticipation of eating the food slathered in ketchup was worth the wait.) 
When it comes to a bowel movement, for most people, constipation is not a fun way to experience anticipation. In [...]]]></description>
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