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...sold in Asian pharmacies and natural-medicine shops, even in beauty parlors and spas. Indeed, Asians tend to trust Chinese medicines as natural and safe dietary shortcuts based on 3,000 years of trial and error. Ancient Chinese apothecaries, however, never treated obesity. Lacking a time-tested herbal cure, Chinese drugmakers are lacing their products with artificial chemicals. "These slimming pills are registered as herbal medicines or health food and do not need to pass through drug trials," says Dr. Lo, a liver specialist at the University of Hong Kong. "There's no safety data, and their efficacy...
...singing bawdy songs?interspersed with the occasional long run?could be considered an athletic event, then the biennial Interhash would be the Olympics of hashing. Taking place Sept. 27-29 in Goa, India, this event promises lots of drinking, great food, good company and the traditional Hash House Harrier cure for a brutal hangover: another run. More than 3,500 participants are expected to slap down $250 each to join the weekend bash. With some 60,000 registered alcoholics in Goa, according to the event organizers, the former Portuguese colony is a natural for hashers. Go to www.goa2002.com for more...
...gave clearance to French cosmetic company L'Oréal and Swiss food giant Nestlé to market food products designed to improve the appearance of hair, nails and skin. The beauty snacks could hit the shelves as early as next year. What's next, nail polish that can cure the common cold...
Implants aren't a cure-all. And there's always the Wonderbra...
Alzheimer's disease, when the lights go out to the point that you don't recognize your own family, is one of the cruelest afflictions, as much for the once-loved ones as for the oblivious victims. There is no cure, and little treatment beyond a bottomless well of patience. But what if, as a healthy young person, you were told for certain that Alzheimer's was going to strike you down in your 40s or 50s? Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people...