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Eat your tomatoes to lower birth risk odds
dfiskey
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3-12-2007 12:52 PM
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tomatoes
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food
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health
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birth defects
dfiskey
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good thing i looooooove tomatoes!
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3-13-2007
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Sorgalim
me too...thanks god...
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