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	<title>Dr. John Hong &#187; Food</title>
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		<title>Weight Watchers &#124; &#8220;Count&#8221; on Losing Weight</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2011/weight-watchers-count-on-losing-weight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2011/weight-watchers-count-on-losing-weight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch is 87 years old and still at her target weight of 142 pounds. Eighty-seven and still thin! I joke with everyone that when I turn 70, I&#8217;m going to eat the entire world: no exercise except for 12 oz. beer curls, Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s my middle name, only fried food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Food Restaurants and Food Stores &#124; Do Americans Even Want to Eat Healthy Foods?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ McDonald&#8217;s was my place as a child:  Happy Meals to apple turnovers that always scalded the roof of my mouth.  When we first moved to Kenton, OH, there wasn’t a McDonald&#8217;s and I was an Unhappy-Meal camper.  Instead there was a Kentucky Fried Chicken, which became my home away from home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine Wine Good for the Heart &#124; Flavonoids &amp; Polyphenols are Antioxidants in Foods</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/wine-wine-good-for-the-heart-flavonoids-polyphenols-are-antioxidants-in-foods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wine plays a huge role in many cultures. I think tap water in France is wine (sans the fluoride). My first taste of wine was Manischewitz, and&#8211; Oy Vey!&#8211; I felt like Barbra Streisand singing off key. Needless to say, I didn&#8217;t drink wine again for a long time.
It wasn&#8217;t until I moved to Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Superbugs &#124; E. coli and Klebsiella</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/640/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oprah was sued by Texas cattle farmers in 1998 when she said she wouldn&#8217;t eat another hamburger. Really! Was it her comment that caused the cattlemen to lose $11 million in sales, or was it the mad cow disease scare sweeping the UK? Should all newly converted vegetarians be sued by the cattle industry because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffet Line &#124; Do We Eat Too Much?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/buffet-line-do-we-eat-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/buffet-line-do-we-eat-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wasting away in Margaritaville.&#8221; Know the song? You should if you&#8217;re a Jimmy Buffett fan. 
My parents just treated the family to a Caribbean cruise. The first port of call was Turks and Caicos, and guess what was there? It wasn&#8217;t a Cheeseburger in Paradise, which can even be found in the land of Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Bottled Tea, and Text Messaging &#124; Fox29 August 25, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has no cure or effective treatment.  Hopefully a new retrovirus might shed light on its cause and lead to a cure. &#124; Tea is for intellectuals and coffee is for hard workers (like myself).  However, the polyphenols that improved cholesterol, fight cancer and heart disease, aren&#8217;t that high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botulism &#124; Food Poison That Will Stop You Dead in Your Tracks</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/botulism-food-poison-that-will-stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/botulism-food-poison-that-will-stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Botox for the face is the number-one non-surgical cosmetic procedure. It&#8217;s like &#8220;Take that frown and turn it upside down&#8221; because it paralyzes the muscles&#8211; although depending on where the Botox is used, both happy and frustrated faces can be erased. 
A recent a study indicates emotions might be blunted because of this Botox effect. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Second Rule &#124; Is it valid?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/5-second-rule-is-it-valid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/5-second-rule-is-it-valid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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July 21, Kerri-Lee of Fox29 and I discuss the 5 Second Rule.  True there are bacteria on the floor and even your kitchen counter that can get you sick.  I would never eat anything dropped on the street or ground. But is it really that much of a risk to eat something like [...]]]></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>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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		<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>Sweet Drinks &#124; Are you drinking yourself to obesity?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/sweet-drinks-are-you-drinking-yourself-to-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2010/sweet-drinks-are-you-drinking-yourself-to-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Mocha choca lata ya ya.&#8221; Sing it, Lady Marmalade! 
I never knew what a mocha was until I was in college. (Then again, I didn&#8217;t know what brie was either, until one time when I ate practically an entire wheel at a college function. Mmm.) Back then, coffee was something that came from a [...]]]></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>Mercury Poisoning &#124; Not Freddy Mercury</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/mercury-poisoning-not-freddy-mercury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/mercury-poisoning-not-freddy-mercury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Planets are pretty fascinating. Don&#8217;t you think it is amazing there are other planets, suns, and moons? Not to sound like Katherine Hepburn (remember, Barbara Walters asked her if she were a tree, what kind would she be?), but if I were a planet, I would definitely be Mercury, named after the Roman messenger [...]]]></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>E. Coli or EEEEK. Coli : The Deadly Type of E. Coli</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/e-coli-or-eeeek-coli-the-deadly-type-of-e-coli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/e-coli-or-eeeek-coli-the-deadly-type-of-e-coli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. When I was growing up in Ohio, there was no butcher shop&#8230; or bakery&#8230; There was one supermarket with hitching posts in the parking lot for the Amish buggies. My mother would ask the supermarket butcher to thinly slice the beef for Korean BBQ. I never saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Fructose and Obesity &#124; High Fructose Corn Syrup &#124; High Fructose Syrup Video</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/high-fructose-and-obesity-high-fructose-corn-syrup-high-fructose-syrup-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-fructose corn syrup is sweet. High dose fructose is associated with Metabolic Syndrome X. High fructose corn syrup is associated with obesity

 Soda is soda and a pop is a Popsicle in NYC, where I used to live. But when I moved to Kenton, Ohio at the tender age of 7, I ordered an orange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Poisoning &#124; Salmonella in Peanut Butter</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/food-poisoning-salmonella-in-peanut-butter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/food-poisoning-salmonella-in-peanut-butter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 20:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food Poisoning &#124; Salmonella in Peanut Butter

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		<title>Trans Fats</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/trans-fats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trans Fats &#8211; Yummy but don&#8217;t be a dumby with your heart &#124; Trans Fats &#124; No Trans Fats
 
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		<title>Water intoxication</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/water-intoxication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/water-intoxication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water intoxication happened to Jennifer Strange. Water intoxication happened by drinking too much water in a &#8220;Hold Your Wee for a Wii&#8221; contest held by KDKN

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		<title>Fiber &#8211; It&#8217;s more than a gas!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/fiber-its-more-than-a-gas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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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>B12 Deficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2009/b12-deficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;She may be weary, Women do get weary, Wearing the same shabby dress&#8230;&#8221; Don&#8217;t you ever get tired and demoralized, feeling like you&#8217;ve been run down by a 100-ton freighter? 
This is not a multivitamin commercial, as I&#8217;m not an advocate for multivitamins; I&#8217;m an advocate for eating balanced healthy meals to get vitamins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Young, Stay Healthy</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/stay-young-stay-healthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Facebook is pretty amazing to me…and a lot of fun! I was resistant for years to use this Internet site because I have too many things to do. However, it has connected me to long-lost friends as well as led me to make new associations for my growing media empire.
Connecting with long-lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caffeine &#8211; Love it! But is too much of a good thing not good?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/caffeine-love-it-but-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing-not-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/caffeine-love-it-but-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing-not-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Caffeine makes the world go round. As a child, I never liked my parents&#8217; instant coffee. It tasted like brown water to me. 
But when I was a college freshman and had to study all night long, I was really tired. So, one day, my friends had me drink a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Poisoning &#124; Salmonella in Peanut Butter</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2008/food-poisoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Poison is such a sneaky way to murder someone. Kings and Queens made servants sample their meals beforehand to ensure they weren&#8217;t poisoned. (Something tells me these servants hated buffets.) Though increasingly now it seems like our current food system is accidentally poisoning Americans. I don&#8217;t mean to throw tomatoes at the FDA, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans Fats &#8211; Yummy but don&#8217;t be a dumby with your heart</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/trans-fats-yummy-but-dont-be-a-dumby-with-your-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/trans-fats-yummy-but-dont-be-a-dumby-with-your-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DuPont used to advertise &#8220;better living through chemistry.&#8221; Couples usually talk about the &#8220;chemistry&#8221; that brought them together. (In Britney Spears and K-Fed&#8217;s case, I think their chemistry involved ethanol, among other things.) Bad chemistry between Moonlighting&#8217;s Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis made the show a smash. 
When I was taking organic chemistry, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Fructose and Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/high-fructose-and-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/high-fructose-and-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Soda is soda and a pop is a Popsicle in NYC, where I used to live. But when I moved to Kenton, Ohio at the tender age of 7, I ordered an orange pop but got an orange soda instead. The confused worker at the Dairy Freeze told me, &#8220;You ordered an orange pop, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water intoxication: you can drink yourself to death&#8211;with water</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/water-intoxication-you-can-drink-yourself-to-death-with-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2007/water-intoxication-you-can-drink-yourself-to-death-with-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.&#8221; 
Gulp!  I read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in ninth grade, and I still remember parts of it. Ms. Patrick-Brown was my quirky and incredible English teacher who said, &#8220;You will hear this over and over [...]]]></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>Dehydration: Don&#8217;t Sweat It Off</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/dehydration-dont-sweat-it-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/dehydration-dont-sweat-it-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweat&#8211; or is it perspire? According to the dictionary, both verbs sweat and perspire mean &#8220;To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.&#8221; Proper Brits know &#8220;Horses sweat; men perspire; but ladies glow.&#8221; Judy Garland didn&#8217;t know about glow. She said, &#8220;I wish I could just perspire. Unfortunately, I sweat!&#8221; Tina Turner sweats so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glucose Intolerance: Pre-Diabetes is not so sweet</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/glucose-intolerance-pre-diabetes-is-not-so-sweet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/glucose-intolerance-pre-diabetes-is-not-so-sweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in college, I saw a crazy, steamy movie called, 9-l/2 Weeks. There&#8217;s a scene beside an open refrigerator in which blindfolded Kim Basinger eats unidentified food given to her by Mickey Rourke. Oscar-winner Basinger reportedly said later that Rourke&#8217;s breath smelled like cigarettes the whole time, so I wonder if she opposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Allergies: Very Untasty</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/food-allergies-very-untasty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2006/food-allergies-very-untasty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has a comfort food. Oprah, Dr. Phil, Oprah, Kirstie Ally, Oprah, Star Jones, Oprah, Prime Minster Ariel Sharon, and Opr&#8230; ooh&#8211; let it go! 
Okay, so I will share a deep dark secret. I too have a comfort food. Well, actually a couple of comfort foods. Chinese Family Style Tofu is one. Yes, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Cheer = Holiday Pounds</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/holiday-cheer-holiday-pounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/holiday-cheer-holiday-pounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love fruitcake. Does that make me odd? Hey, anything soaked in rum long enough tastes like&#8211; well, rum! Yum, yum! I&#8217;m starting to tell all my patients, &#8220;If I see you before the holidays, make sure you bring me fruitcake&#8211; and your co-payment. Haha.&#8221; 
Most patients frown and say, &#8220;I&#8217;ll gladly give you any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heat Stroke &amp; Heat Exhaustion: It&#8217;s too damn hot!</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/heat-stroke-heat-exhaustion-its-too-damn-hot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/heat-stroke-heat-exhaustion-its-too-damn-hot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke. 
Here&#8217;s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity: Who&#8217;s Fat?  Not me?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/obesity-whos-fat-not-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2005/obesity-whos-fat-not-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My mother&#8217;s favorite ride is Disneyland&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s A Small World.&#8221; All the little toy children spin around and sing the same song in different languages. At the time Walt Disney oversaw the creation of &#8220;It&#8217;s A Small World,&#8221; the country was not top-heavy with overweight or obese people as the US is today&#8211; 66 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercise: Not a 4 Letter Word</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/exercise-not-a-4-letter-word/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/exercise-not-a-4-letter-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2004 22:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the song, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Physical?&#8221; Olivia Newton John wore a cute little pink sweat-suit when she sang that smash hit from the &#8217;80s. It still fits her.  Her Grease co-star, John Travolta, is not fit. After they finished singing &#8220;We Go Together,&#8221; he stopped dancing and gained 60 pounds. 
I see people at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gobble Gobble: Overeating on the holidays makes you a turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/gobble-gobble-overeating-on-the-holidays-makes-you-a-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnhong.com/blog/2004/gobble-gobble-overeating-on-the-holidays-makes-you-a-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monty Python&#8217;s movie The Meaning of Life has a disgusting&#8211; but funny&#8211; scene at a restaurant where a morbidly obese man takes gluttony to a new level. At the end of his meal, the waiter forces upon him a &#8220;wafer-thin&#8221; mint. Despite his obvious lack of control over his eating, he reassures the waiter that [...]]]></description>
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