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    <updated_at>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:57:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I haven't read this book, but based on your review of it, I think you would like 'Stones from the River' by Ursula Hegi.  A friend of mine who grew up in Germany recommended it to me - it's a pretty powerful story.  Laura Sutherland]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:34:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book when I WAS a student nurse!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:48:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:45:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book presents a new paradigm for health. First there is an opportunity to evaluate your current health status. Then Dr. A gives you the tools you need to make the lifestyle changes necessary to move toward Optimal Health.  The first step is losing weight through the Take Shape For Life eating p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61088312">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178788.The_China_Study_The_Most_Comprehensive_Study_of_Nutrition_Ever_Conducted_and_the_Startling_Implications_for_Diet_Weight_Loss_and_Long_term_Health">The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/104148.T_Colin_Campbell">T. Colin Campbell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:29:10 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very enlightening about the research out there relating to diet that the food industry would like to have suppressed!  The best diet for disease prevention is a plant-based diet.  Nobody really needs milk after all!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:04:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Beware those health care providers who have no conscience and who are &quot;in it for the money&quot;!]]></body>
        
    
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