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Week of November 30, 2007

This week's topics include a cardiovascular age score, the benefits of whole grains, a return of rickets, and too many X-rays in pregnant women.

Program notes:
0:28 Rickets is a vitamin D deficiency
1:10 Sunshine transforms vitamin D
2:12 Osteoporosis as adults
3:10 Cereal intake and diabetes risk
4:18 High glycemic index
5:14 Substitute whole grain bread
6:10 Important to reduce cardiovascular risk factors
7:07 People did modify behavior
8:04 X-rays in pregnant women
9:04 Alternative tests
10:03 Newer CT
11:42 End

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