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	38% of U.S. Adults Use Alternative Treatments

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/683d52ba-70e6-4358-9a62-b4704e2bb64c/4D6F69F6-15E9-4E61-9EC0-CECEFFF7A934/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html" href="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html" style="font-size: 11px;">health.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html">38% of U.S. Adults Use Alternative Treatments </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html">By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html"><P>
 - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 (<SPAN id="lw_1228970992_0" class="yshortcuts">HealthDay News</SPAN>) -- An estimated 38 percent of 
U.S. adults and 12 percent of children use some type of <SPAN id="lw_1228970992_1" class="yshortcuts">complementary and 
alternative medicine</SPAN>, a new U.S. government survey finds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html"><P><SPAN id="lw_1228970992_2" class="yshortcuts">Complementary and alternative medicine</SPAN> -- sometimes called CAM -- is an 
umbrella term for a collection of wide-ranging medical and <SPAN id="lw_1228970992_3" class="yshortcuts">health care 
systems</SPAN>, practices and products that aren't generally considered 
conventional medicine. It includes herbal supplements, meditation, 
chiropractic treatment and <SPAN id="lw_1228970992_4" class="yshortcuts">acupuncture</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html"><P>The question about CAM use is really the same as that for conventional 
medicine -- is it safe and effective? For CAM, the answer has been mixed. 
Some remedies have been found to be safe and effective, some are safe and 
not effective, and others are unsafe. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/38ofusadultsusealternativetreatments.html">The most common supplements used by adults are fish oil/<SPAN id="lw_1228970992_7" class="yshortcuts">omega 3</SPAN>/DHA, 
glucosamine, echinacea, <SPAN id="lw_1228970992_8" class="yshortcuts">flaxseed oil</SPAN> or pills, and ginseng.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4D6F69F6-15E9-4E61-9EC0-CECEFFF7A934/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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