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That Orwell--he was so 1984. Today, when Youth is a secular religion and a huge industry, you can choose your favorite age and, with the help of wonder drugs, stay there. So let's join the 21st century and hear it for Botox, which may soon guarantee that at 50 everyone will have the face she, or he, can afford...
...Botox: short for botulinum toxin. The name won't make you smile, but the injection can keep you from frowning. A decade ago, the toxin that causes botulism (a form of food poisoning) was a treatment only for spasmodic eye muscles. Then doctors saw that it also smoothed skin. Now it is the most popular cosmetic procedure, with more than a million injections in 2000 (according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), 89% of them to women. Botox is just the thing to erase worry and anger lines, to take years and cares off the most fretful visage...
JUDGMENT CALL Gross, but would you rather have your facial muscles paralyzed with Botox...
...wrinkle reducer--is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: Mila Skin Care's new Amber Cream Placental has become a hot seller by proudly promoting the taboo ingredient. A 59-year-old aesthetician in Beverly Hills, Calif., says she gave up Botox injections a month after she started using the skin smoother. "The lines are just staying away," she says...
Botulinum toxin--yes, the same poison that causes muscle paralysis when ingested in bad restaurants and smooths forehead wrinkles in trendy clinics--may also relieve aching backs. Scientists report in the journal Neurology that patients with longstanding lower-back pain who receive Botox injections are three times as likely as those who get injected with a saline solution to report less pain and less difficulty walking, sitting and exercising. The shots, five in all, not only eased muscle spasms along the spine--which might be expected, given Botox's known muscle-relaxing effects--but somehow also quieted the nerve firings...