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		<title>The Zamboni Myth</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-zamboni-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story has nothing to do with lifestyle diseases but it is valuable is showing the creation of a medical myth in real time. Usually the sort of papers published by  Dr. Zamboni would have been rapidly relegated to the dumpster of science but this myth received a huge boost when two reporters working for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1059&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JUNK FOOD TURNS RATS INTO ADDICTS</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/junk-food-turns-rats-into-addicts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More proof, if  more is needed, that junk food has been carefully formulated to appeal to innate attraction to the taste of sugar and salt and the mouth feel of fat. So, just don&#8217;t buy the junk and you don&#8217;t have to worry about getting addicted to it and suffer all the miserable consequences.
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Bacon, cheesecake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1055&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junk food addiction</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/junk-food-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[david kessler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The type of reactions Kessler describes when some people are presented with junk food is classical addictive behaviour. Why doesn&#8217;t Kessler like to call junk food obsession an addiction? My guess is that as a former FDA Commissioner he would like to think that the problem can be solved just by banning junk food. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1045&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can say no</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/1037/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great book, but Kessler calls everything that can be digested &#8220;food&#8221;. Artificial concoctions formulated to appeal to addictions to sugar, fat and salt are junk food and have no more reason for existence than cocaine or tobacco. It is impossible to eat too much of unrefined cereals, vegetables, fruit, legumes, low-fat dairy products or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1037&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Pet Obesity Awareness Day</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/national-pet-obesity-awareness-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the pandemic of cat and dog obesity tell us about the pandemic of human obesity? Animals don`t get fat in the wild, only when they live with obese humans and are fed the same junk food. No junk food, no obesity. No survey has looked at the association between pet obesity and obesity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1035&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHUM hires a new director</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/chum-hires-a-new-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[junk food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paire&#8217;s waist circumference looks at least 45 inches. Abdominal obesity is a preventable disease resulting from junk food addiction that increases the chances of many other diseases such as Type 2 diabetes. Another example of how the &#8220;health care&#8221; system is showing you how to care for your health.
CHUM hires a new director
AARON DERFEL GAZETTE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1033&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting more for less in health care (National Post, 06 Oct 2009)</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/getting-more-for-less-in-health-care-national-post-06-oct-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esmail assumes that producing &#8220;health care&#8221; is analogous to producing widgets; the law of supply and demand applies to both. Not so. Demand for &#8220;health care&#8221;, really disease care, is infinite. Deluded inhabitants of developed societies believe that any money spent on doctors and hospitals will prolong their lives. But, there is no correlation between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1028&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weight gain destroys body and mind</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/weight-gain-destroys-body-and-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being obese in middle age lowers a woman’s chance of being alive and free of chronic diseases after age 70 by nearly 80 per cent, according to new data from the landmark U.S. Nurses’ Health Study. The findings suggest every bit of weight gain between ages 18 and 50 lowers a woman’s odds of being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1025&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;When diet doesn&#8217;t work&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/when-diet-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atherosclerosis]]></category>
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Here is a graphic illustration of the concept of moral hazard as applied to the drug treatment of lifestyle diseases.
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Reprinted from AdWatch

Many studies confirm that doctors’ behaviour can be influenced by drug advertising, but many of them are unaware of this.
Not only the advertising text, but also the images play an important part.
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		<title>Low fat diet trumps junk food gene</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/low-fat-diet-trumps-junk-food-gene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low fat diet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily (Sep. 14, 2009) — The risk of becoming obese is 2.5 times higher for those who have double copies of the best known risk gene for overweight and obesity. However, this is only true if the fat consumption is high. A low fat diet neutralizes the harmful effects of the gene.
“This means that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=1014&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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