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Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/health/22real.html

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by Richard Knox
Morning Edition, December 24, 2008 · The human heart requires a certain amount of sleep every night to stay healthy, and that link between sleep and heart health is stronger than researchers suspected, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Earlier studies had suggested a weak association between the [...]

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Commonly-used food additives may fuel the growth of lung cancers, a Korean study on animals has suggested.

Processed foods including meat, cheese, and drink contain inorganic phosphates.
Researchers fed mice with lung cancer a diet with similar percentages of phosphates to those in human food, and found tumour growth accelerated.
But UK experts stressed the findings reported in [...]

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Can a Sleep Disorder Predict Parkinson’s?
By ALICE PARK
Calming the tremors of Parkinson’s disease remains a challenge for patients and doctors alike, but new research suggests that future therapies for the condition may emerge from an unlikely place: people’s sleep habits.

Scientists at Sacre-Coeur Hospital at the University of Montreal report in the journal Neurology that [...]

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By JOHN TIERNEY
If I’m serious about keeping my New Year’s resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? Should the to-do list include, “Start going to church”?
This is an awkward question for a heathen to contemplate, but I felt obliged to raise it with Michael McCullough after reading his report in the upcoming issue of [...]

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Half our bags got taken at the airport. Ugh. Hopefully we can either get them released in to Bali or get them back when we ar returning to the US.

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We’ve hit a bit of a snag and had to halt operations to file a bit more paperwork. What we’ve done so far - the systems, paperwork, organization, team structures - has been extremely effective and is definitely a reproducible model. More info to follow.

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Got our first bag held hostage at customs. Argh. The rest have gotten through okay.

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It’s been a while since I’ve traveled through Beijing – 4 or 5 years – and while the city is fundamentally the same it seems to have grown even more polluted and crowded. There are many more “foreigners” here than there were before. By “foreigners” I’m not referring to Westerners but to Chinese from other [...]

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