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Function Drinks come in three categories: Urban Detox, Light Weight, and Alternative Energy. According to the back of the bottle, the Urban Detox variety targets the “city warrior” who “jog[s] in the smog and part[ies] on work nights.” (We can't help but wonder—do Cambridge residents qualify as city warriors?) Light Weight, at only 10 calories a bottle, supposedly "ignite[s] your natural metabolism" and keeps you looking slim. Finally, Alternative Energy can “keep you going all day and all night...
Treating heroin addicts by giving them heroin might seem counterintuitive. But for some of the most hardened addicts, administering heroin in supervised clinics may just do the trick where detox and methadone have failed...
...Organic Pharmacy (dbp) Health and beauty expert Margo Marrone reveals the secrets of the all-natural remedies, detox regimes and skin-care products that keep celebrities flocking to her London and Los Angeles spas...
...growing popularity of detoxing? The idea of cleansing is appealing enough that many customers may not stop to ask if there's any scientific proof that these treatments will benefit their health. "People are not coming to a spa and saying, 'Does your detox program really work?'" says Susie Ellis, founder of SpaFinder...
...Even detox practitioners acknowledge that there is little evidence of the effectiveness of their work. "We would love to have that kind of good research, but that takes time and money, " says Mark Toomey, director of the Raj spa in Fairfield, Iowa, which offers cleansing oil-based massages, enemas and diets. The problem is, without those studies, you may never know if you have really done something to improve your health or if you feel better simply for having done something. If it's the latter, you might as well just take a nice relaxing bath in your...