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		<title>Macedonia Plants 5 Million New Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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The tiny Balkan country greets spring – and safeguards the environment – with a massive reforestation initiative.
By Chris Deliso
SKOPJE, Macedonia – Campaign season has arrived in Macedonia, with presidential and municipal elections next Sunday. Nevertheless, the locals made time for the third installment of the “Day of the Tree” initiative that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Your Brain on Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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By Penelope Green
Oprah Magazine
Circuits in your brain light up when you&#8217;re happy. One groundbreaking researcher has discovered how to keep them lit.
There are no dark corners in Madison, Wisconsin, a university town that sparkles with endowment and research dollars—more than $900 million last year—as well as just plain Midwestern niceness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Hospitals Make Happy Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2009)
Imagine a
hospital where morale is high, employee turnover is low and patient
call buttons rarely go unanswered&#8212;and if they do, you can call the
hospital&#8217;s CEO.
That&#8217;s exactly the type of culture and service that &#8220;delights&#8221;
patients and makes for the most successful community hospitals in the
country, as rated by caregivers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Alternative&#8217; Medicine Is Mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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By DEEPAK CHOPRA , DEAN ORNISH , RUSTUM ROY and ANDREW WEIL
The evidence is mounting that diet and lifestyle are the best cures for our worst afflictions.
In mid-February, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Bravewell Collaborative are convening a &#8220;Summit on Integrative Medicine and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Lift Your Mood? Try Smiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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By John Cloud
My personal trainer sometimes gives me an odd piece of advice during workouts: &#8220;Relax your face.&#8221; For a long time, I found this advice confusing. Isn&#8217;t physical exertion supposed to be expressed in grimaces? I thought of the face as a pressure-relief valve that helps emit the pain the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grape-seed Extract Kills Laboratory Leukemia Cells, Proving Value Of Natural Compounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died after being exposed to the extract.
The investigators, who report their findings in the January 1, 2009, issue of Clinical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditate on This: You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that meditation opens the gateway to compassion
By David Biello 
Like athletes or musicians, people who practice meditation can enhance their ability to concentrate—or even lower their blood pressure. They can also cultivate compassion, according to a new study. Specifically, concentrating on the loving kindness one feels toward one&#8217;s family (and expanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates Foundation Invests in 104 Novel Ideas for Global Health</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2008/10/gates-foundation-invests-in-104-novel-ideas-for-global-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from diverse set of disciplines and regions receive $100,000 each to explore bold, untested projects.
BANGKOK &#8212; The Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 104 grants to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health. The grants of US$100,000 each will be made to scientists from 22 countries and five continents. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bee Gees Hit Could Save Your Life</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2008/10/bee-gees-hit-could-save-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephcolin</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t read every day.
US medics have found the Bee Gees&#8217; 1977 hit Stayin&#8217; Alive is an ideal beat to follow to perform chest compressions on a victim of a cardiac arrest.
Research says it contains 103 beats per minute, close to the recommended rate of 100 chest compressions per minute.
An author of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Reveals Coffee Seems to Protect Against Liver Cancer</title>
		<link>http://woohooreport.com/2008/07/study-reveals-coffee-seems-to-protect-against-liver-cancer-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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The more coffee a person drinks, the lower their risk of developing liver cancer, suggests a large study.
University of Helsinki researchers found that coffee seems to be connected to lower blood levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), a liver enzyme involved in the secretion and absorption of bile that has been linked to liver cancer.
The researchers studied [...]]]></description>
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