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		<title>Is It Morally Wrong to Eat Animals?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/10/02/the-morality-of-my-lunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an annual conference for religion journalists last month, I saw a film that radically altered the way I look at eating meat. At the end of a long and boring speech, which I mostly ignored, Wayne Pacelle, the president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), showed the film Eating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2827&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds 16% of Americans Have Had a &#8220;Miraculous Physical Healing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/25/study-finds-16-percent-of-americans-have-had-a-miraculous-physical-healing/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/25/study-finds-16-percent-of-americans-have-had-a-miraculous-physical-healing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter of American adults report having witnessed a &#8220;miraculous, physical healing,&#8221; and, perhaps more surprisingly, 16% say they have actually experienced such a miracle themselves.
Researchers from Baylor University&#8217;s Institute for Studies of Religion released these survey results in a standing-room-only press conference in Washington, D.C., on September 18.
The pool of 1,721 respondents from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2491&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Religious Fasting Could Be Good for Your Brain</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/17/why-ramadan-might-be-good-for-your-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/17/why-ramadan-might-be-good-for-your-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan is in its third week now, and the required dawn-to-dusk fasting often feels like a daily mini–marathon. By late afternoon, hunger and thirst have sucked me dry, leaving me sleepy, slow-minded, and sometimes short-tempered.
I know that the purpose of fasting is spiritual—God will reward us in the next life—but in this lifetime, fasting sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=2261&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>Salvia Divinorum: Could Hallucinogenic Drugs Have Healing Properties?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/10/salvia-divinorum-could-hallucinogenic-drugs-have-healing-properties/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/10/salvia-divinorum-could-hallucinogenic-drugs-have-healing-properties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a popular article this week, The New York Times reported on the rash of online videos showing teenagers smoking the hallucinogenic drug derived from leaves of the plant Salvia divinorum. In this video (warning: it has a fair amount of profanity), a girl named Shannon takes one hit from a bong and appears overwhelmed; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1971&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Religion Influence the Choice to Continue a Down Syndrome Pregnancy?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/04/religions-place-in-the-decision-to-continue-a-down-syndrome-pregnancy/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/09/04/religions-place-in-the-decision-to-continue-a-down-syndrome-pregnancy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Sarah Palin continued her pregnancy after learning that her son would be born with Down syndrome. That fact has become an important part of her public persona since Senator John McCain announced that she was his vice-presidential pick. And it got me wondering how much religion plays a role when families decide whether to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1735&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>Ramadan and the Working Mom: Finding Room for Fasting</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/28/ramadan-axienty-for-the-working-mother-finding-room-for-fasting/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/28/ramadan-axienty-for-the-working-mother-finding-room-for-fasting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week my three young sons and my husband (a teacher) go back to school. Like many people across the country, I feel the usual mix of stress and excitement about the transition. But next week is also the beginning of Ramadan, the monthlong fast for Muslims around the world, which adds another level of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1568&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>What I Learned From Watching Michael Phelps</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/21/what-i-learned-from-watching-michael-phelps/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/21/what-i-learned-from-watching-michael-phelps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith and Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have two things in my life that require equal parts discipline and inspiration: praying and exercising. As a Muslim, I am obliged to pray five times a day, and as a new convert to running, I try to pound the pavement at least three times a week. Persistence is required for both commitments, of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1399&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>Vacation: Good for Your Health, Good for Your Soul?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/13/body-and-spirit-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/13/body-and-spirit-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I snuck away from work for a few days, taking only one of my three sons with me, and spent a few heavenly days on the eastern tip of Long Island with my brother. Walking by myself on the beach, with a misty spray blowing off the surf, I asked myself: Why do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1294&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>Olympic Doping Debate: Is Genetic Enhancement Fair?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/06/gene-doping-wrong-for-beijing-olympic-athletes-but-right-for-your-grandchildren/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/08/06/gene-doping-wrong-for-beijing-olympic-athletes-but-right-for-your-grandchildren/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s a peek at the Summer Olympics of the future: a swimmer racing with surgically lengthened arms, widened nostrils (for more efficient breathing), and enlarged webbing between his fingers. Sounds scary, right? Not to Andy Miah, who teaches bioethics at the University of the West of Scotland and outlined this exact scenario in a Washington [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=1034&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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		<title>Is Runner&#8217;s High a Religious Experience?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/30/the-ecstasy-of-running-and-the-brain-science-behind-it/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/07/30/the-ecstasy-of-running-and-the-brain-science-behind-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Useem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day after my 35th birthday this spring, I ran my first half-marathon. I expected it to be a grueling physical challenge, and it was. What I didn&#8217;t expect was this: Somewhere around mile 10, while listening to a favorite song on my iPod, I experienced a fantastic, expanding sense of joy. I could not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=787&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Andrea Useem</media:title>
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