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About a month ago, Ben & Jerry’s broke devastating news to ice cream lovers everywhere. The franchise’s chocolate chip ice cream, favorite of grandmothers and college students alike, has kicked the bucket...
Chocolate chip ice cream addicts may choose to seek “Chocolate Therapy” instead—a mix of chocolate ice cream, pudding, and cookies which is replacing the simpler flavor of yesteryear. B&J’s claims that it will provide therapy for any “discombobulated state” into which it may have inadvertently thown consumers...
...would binge and purge only before school dances or just before we were going home for the holidays, and then we would ferret away all the chocolate brownies and ice cream we could get and gobble it up until our stomachs were swollen as though we were five months pregnant. Then we would put our fingers down our throats and make ourselves throw it all up. We assumed that we were the first people since the Romans to do this; it was our secret, and it created a titillating bond between...
Later it became ritualistic, with specific requirements: I had to be alone (it is a disease of aloneness) and dressed in loose, comfortable clothing. In a catatonic state, I would enter a grocery store to buy the requisite comfort foods, starting with ice cream and moving to breads and pastries--just this one last time. My breathing would become rapid (as in sex) and shallow (as in fear). Before eating, I would drink milk, because if that went into me first, it would help bring up all the rest later. The eating itself was exciting and my heart would pound...
...question, of course, is whether any of those things actually work. The cosmetics industry spends millions on real science, employing teams of chemists, pharmacologists and microbiologists in labs all over the world. And in clinical tests, each company says its cream decreases the depth of fine facial lines to some degree. None of them claim, however, that their products make wrinkles disappear completely, the way a shot of Botox can. Still, the search for a better fountain-of-youth cream continues. Avon is about to complete a $100 million state-of-the-art research facility in Suffern, N.Y. And Clinique...