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		<title>Daryl Hannah arrested in demonstration at White House</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/09/01/daryl-hannah-arrested-in-tar-sands-demonstration-in-front-of-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, August 30 actress and activist Daryl Hanna was arrested in front of the White House for sitting in against the Keystone XL oil pipeline. That pipeline, if built, would transport oil from Alberta, Canada&#8217;s tar sands fields to Texas at the Gulf of Mexico. What does that have to do with our health? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The price of clean natural gas</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/05/18/the-price-of-clean-natural-gas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve grown accustomed to seeing those signs on the local buses that say, &#8220;Powered by Clean Natural Gas.&#8221; It always gave us a bit of a lift to see that cheerful improvement touted, even knowing that the buses in this area sporting that sign hold fewer seats than the older buses and are less comfortable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear energy and your health</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/03/24/nuclear-energy-and-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us, no doubt, choose to ignore what&#8217;s going on in Japan whether because it&#8217;s too much to bear or because we just don&#8217;t care. But for the rest of us, whether we are glued to the TV for the latest update or following it at a distance, the ordeal befalling so much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fluoride Deception</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2011/02/09/the-fluoride-deception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read our previous posts on fluoride, you will likely recognize the name of Christopher Bryson. Journalist and author, he wrote The Fluoride Deception. Here in this interview, he gives a good overview of the issues and information you will find in the book.]]></description>
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		<title>Bisphenol-A poses major health risks</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/29/bisphenol-a-poses-major-health-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We first wrote about bisphenol-A (BPA) about two years ago. In that article, we noted that while parents were shying away from plastic baby bottles containing the substance, they were largely unaware that BPA was actually found in larger quantities in most liquid baby formulas because it leaches from the linings of the cans used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dental amalgams revisited</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/12/14/dental-amalgams-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new report out that says mercury fillings&#8212;the so-called &#8220;silver&#8221; dental amalagam most of us have in our teeth&#8212;may not be so harmful after all. Using x-ray analysis, Graham George of the University of Saskatchewan analyzed the surface of mercury-based fillings that were about 20 years old and compared those to the surface of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fluoride affects IQ, brain development and thyroid function</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/22/fluoride-affects-iq-brain-development-and-thyroid-function/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/10/22/fluoride-affects-iq-brain-development-and-thyroid-function/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fluoride]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthspectator.com/?p=2810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read our previous articles on fluoride&#8212;Fluoride message still not getting through and Fluoride still not safe, despite tooth-decay data&#8212;you already know most of the information here. However, there is something about seeing the actual authorities speak on camera that makes it all the more convincing and reassuring. Phyllis Mullenix is here, as are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of vaccines, mercury, autism and Julie Gerberding</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/14/of-vaccines-mercury-autism-and-julie-gerberding/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/14/of-vaccines-mercury-autism-and-julie-gerberding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wouldn't mind the job security conferred upon the ruling elite by these arrangements nearly so much if only those public servants were more diligent in their defense of the public (as opposed to corporate) interests while serving their brief tenure in public posts.]]></description>
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		<title>FDA reverses stance on mercury fillings</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/07/29/fda-reverses-stance-on-mercury-fillings/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/07/29/fda-reverses-stance-on-mercury-fillings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tuesday announced its decision that mercury amalgam fillings&#8212;the so-called &#8220;silver&#8221; fillings most Americans have in their teeth&#8212;contain insufficient mercury to warrant concern. &#8220;While elemental mercury has been associated with adverse health effects at high exposures, the levels released by dental amalgam fillings are not high enough to cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fluoride message still not getting through</title>
		<link>http://healthspectator.com/2009/07/25/fluoride-message-still-not-getting-through/</link>
		<comments>http://healthspectator.com/2009/07/25/fluoride-message-still-not-getting-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Suydam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we come across pieces in our files that never made it into &#8220;print&#8221; because they still had a few unfinished paragraphs or sentences, or maybe we just didn&#8217;t find time that week to do a final edit, after which it was forgotten. We think of them as orphans. This is one of those that [...]]]></description>
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