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		<title>Veritas Health Returns to Blogspot&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a data-driven person. I have been disappointed with my inability to control, track, and understand who is visiting my blog and improve my website to reflect those statistics since I have moved to WordPress.With this in mind, I have decided to return Veritas Health to blogspot. My posts have been transferred (&#8230;manually&#8230;) back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=309&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New NY Ads Target Sugar-Sweetened Drinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the most eye-catching public health campaign ad that I have seen in a long time that does not have to do with violence. While it specifies cutting back on sodas in the text, the liquid resembles sugar-laden iced team more than Coca-Cola and could apply to a wide range of beverages. In fact, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=298&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year of a Public Health Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August came and went so quickly that I hardly even realized that there is an anniversary to celebrate &#8212; one year of Veritas Health, my beloved public health blog. I started Veritas Health because I could not find anything on the web like it. Individuals just didn&#8217;t seem to be writing about their public health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=289&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Eating Local Challenge @ TastyKate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to commit to increasing my consumption of locally grown/raised foods during my last year at HSPH (Harvard School of Public Health). It was difficult to decide whether to initiate this using Veritas Health or my food blog, TastyKate, but finally decided that TastyKate was a better venue. Check out my first post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=286&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Chemicals In Drinking Water Be Safe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about an article in today&#8217;s New York Times: Debating Just How Much Week Killer is Safe in Your Water Glass It would be impossible to eliminate all chemicals and microbes from drinking water, right? Rather than elimination, the EPA often sets standards of &#8220;allowable&#8221; levels of chemicals and microbes in the water supply. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=282&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Public Health Passion: Round 2</title>
		<link>http://veritashealth.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/passion-round-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day by day I am getting closer to identifying what makes me spring out of my chair, telling each and every person I meet the latest offense against our nation&#8217;s health. Some days it is fast food commercials. I get so angry over them because I know they work! For example, I craved Dunkin Donuts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=271&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Racial Disparities in Boston Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://veritashealth.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/racial-disparities-in-boston-swine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health status differs by race and ethnicity. This is not news to people working in the health arena, in fact an entire department of the Boston Public Health Commission is focused on reducing racial health disparities. Often such inequities in health are assumed to be a result of genetic differences or differences in income or socioeconomic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=261&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gluten-Free = Wallet Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few months living in California I was struck by the number of food allergies and intolerances of my friends, colleagues, and their families. Gluten-free, lactose-free, peanut-free, pit-free...the list goes on and on. I don't believe that these diseases are just more 'common' in people living in the Bay Area, rather I think it is more likely that  doctors (and patients) are probably more aware of food allergy signs and symptoms and thus more apt to screen for and diagnose these problems. In a highly educated, wealthy area like the Penninsula (i.e. Silicon Valley) this makes sense.

The peanut allergy epidemic (I'm not sure that it would officially be characterized as such....) that led to pretzels in airplanes and banning of peanut products in some schools surely raised America's awareness about some food allergy issues. Lactose intolerance has been around for a long time and is fairly well-known. Although many Americans suffer through stomachache after stomachache unwilling to believe that glass of milk or bowl of ice cream could be the culprit. Celiac disease, an extreme form of gluten intolerance is another story.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=256&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters Picks Up Trafficking Story in SE Asia</title>
		<link>http://veritashealth.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/reuters-picks-up-trafficking-story-in-se-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of hard work compiling data for the United Nations Development Programme our final report on the intersection of HIV/AIDs and sex trafficking was presented in Bali (see my previous post on this international conference). Reuters picked up the story and published it in its AlertNet section on Wednesday. Trafficking is a public health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=252&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Kids Lack Calcium and Vitamin D&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://veritashealth.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/kids-lack-calcium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katelyn Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;feed them Trix and Lucky Charms?! The commercial begins with two cute kids in the frame. One is trying to figure out the other&#8217;s height with measuring tape; they are playing in a large kitchen. Then the fact, which is something to the effect of &#8220;Did you know: not enough kids are getting enough calcium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=veritashealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8669115&amp;post=247&amp;subd=veritashealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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