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      <title>February Heart Month: Keep it healthy</title>
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      <title>Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank</title>
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      <title>Research With Resistant Starch Has Widespread Health Implications</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:03:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Women Less Successful Quitting Smoking Than Men</title>
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      <title>Regular Exercise Helps In Blood Glucose Control</title>
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      <title>Living a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle</title>
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      <title>Don’t Blame Genes For Children’s Inactivity</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for diseases such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy says declining levels of physical activity may help explain why childhood metabolic diseases are becoming more common. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>LSU AgCenter Nutrition Expert Points The Way To Healthy Aging</title>
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      <title>Remove Odors from Refrigerator and Freezer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If food has thawed in your refirgerator or freezer, you are probably facing an odor problem. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>LSU AgCenter Nutritionist Advises Prudent Use of Herbal Supplements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As baby boomers age, many reach for herbal supplements in hopes of staying young. Supplements can be harmful, cautions LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Soy Helps Build Bones</title>
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      <title>Prevent Adult Obesity in Childhood</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One quarter of all U.S. children ages 2 to 17 are obese, according to the Center on an Aging Society. Several more million children are at risk. Obese children are more likely to remain obese in adulthood, says LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Massive Study Examines Role of Genetics, Disease and Exercise</title>
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      <title>Soft Drink Consumption Steadily Rises</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:01:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[White adolescents are more occupied with thinness than black adolescents. LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy examines this phenomenon found in a Pennington Biomedical Research Center study. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Power Foods for Cancer Prevention</title>
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      <title>Vitamin C Acts As Anti-inflammatory Agent In Men</title>
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      <title>Effect of Exercise Debated</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Both obesity and being overweight have increased significantly in recent years, with nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults being one or the other. Whether this weight gain has resulted more from an increasing sedentary lifestyle or from less exercise is under debate, according to LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Weight Attitudes Different as Black and White</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[White adolescents are more occupied with thinness than black adolescents. LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Heli Roy examines this phenomenon found in a Pennington Biomedical Research Center study. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Seafood Oil Protects Against Heart Disease</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dietary fat is important in determining cardiovascular health and risk of heart disease development. Some fats actually help protect against heart disease. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Carotenoids Protect Against Heart Disease in Women</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:38:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tomatoes Valuable Antioxidant Source</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Americans each eat more than 16 pounds of fresh tomatoes a year and consume the equivalent of 79 pounds in processed tomatoes annually. Tomatoes are a rich source of antioxidants, including vitamin C and lycopene, according to LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Beth Reames. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Common Reactions to Crisis by Ages</title>
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      <title>Strategies for Helping Youth Cope with Reminders of Disaster</title>
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      <title>Nutritionist Observes National High Blood Pressure Education Month</title>
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      <title>Yet Another Study Points to Obesity</title>
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      <title>DASH to Lower High Blood Pressure</title>
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      <title>Fluids Important To Everyone, Especially Seniors, In Hot Weather</title>
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      <title>Childhood Inactivity Bad Omen</title>
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      <title>Control High Blood Pressure With Diet</title>
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      <title>Men Also Susceptible To Osteoporosis</title>
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      <title>Removing Odors from Refrigerator and Freezer</title>
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      <title>Common Sense Prevents Spread Of Staph Infections</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 12/05/07) A certain type of staph infection (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus – MRSA) can easily be prevented with proper hygiene and heal with treatment, according to Terri Crawford, Northeast region nutrition agent with the LSU AgCenter. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[May generally brings higher temperatures, more mosquitoes and more chances to contract West Nile virus. The disease is carried by birds and transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. So far this year, more dead birds that were confirmed to have carried West Nile virus have been turned in to state health department offices than at the same time last year. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>What Parents Need To Know About Secondhand Smoke</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do you smoke around your young children? Does your child’s child-care provider smoke in the child-care environment? If your answer to either of those questions is "yes," LSU AgCenter experts caution there are multiple concerns about children and their exposure to secondhand smoke. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Be Alert to Carbon Monoxide Dangers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every year some 500 Americans die suddenly in their homes from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. A little knowledge about the gas and taking some simple precautions can help reduce the chances of a dangerous situation happening in your home, says LSU AgCenter housing professor Dr. Claudette Reichel. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Hunger Always with Us, Says LSU AgCenter Nutritionist</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For most people, fasting is an occasional choice, but for many people hunger is a year-round reality, according to LSU AgCenter nutritionist Dr. Annrose Guarino. She offers ways to help alleviate hunger. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>More Blacks Needed In Health Studies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recruiting volunteers for clinical trials is an on-going challenge. Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity affect blacks disproportionately. Black participation could identify effective prevention and treatment strategies for minority groups. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HRoy@agcenter.lsu.edu (Heli J. Roy)</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 06/01/01) Health is more than just the absence of illness, according to an LSU AgCenter family development authority. Mental and spiritual health account for much of our quality of life, says family development expert Raye Neely. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Hot Weather Endangers Seniors</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[(Distributed 06/01/01) Hot weather can lead to loss of body water loss, dehydration, heat stroke and even death. Senior citizens especially need to be careful, warns an LSU AgCenter nutritionist. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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