Word: detox
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...with growing competition and a need to differentiate, spas are expanding services to focus on health and fitness," says Naphalai Areesorn, president of the Thai Spa Association. Christine Galle of the Chiva-Som resort agrees. "Holidays for a specific health purpose are becoming more popular," she says, "including detox, weight loss, fitness or handling stress...
...That means more people are passing up the lavish meals and lazing around usually associated with holidays, and are preparing instead for the nausea, headaches and grumpiness that can occur when fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol are flushed from the system. The good news is that detox programs get easier after the initial shock. "What was strange was that there was no hunger at all," says Kurt Thompson, a Seoul-based marketing-research manager, of his weight-loss vacation at the Farm?a health retreat in the Philippines' lush Batangas province. The self-confessed "300-pound man mountain" shed...
...SAMUI, THAILAND The trailblazer among the country's detox spas, Spa Samui, tel: (66-77) 230 976, was set up on the island's Lamai beach in 1992 by Californian Guy Hopkins, who began looking into wellness treatments after his mother succumbed to cancer. A supervised seven-day Clean-Me-Out fast is offered...
...surprise-- is moderation. If you're experiencing all the bad and none of the good of caffeine, cut back. Mixing caffeinated drinks with decaf can make for a comparatively painless detox. When a 20-oz. latte can set you back nearly $4, there's more than one reason to keep the joe under control. --By Jeffrey Kluger. With reporting by Paul Cuadros/ Chapel Hill, N.C., and Charlotte Faltermayer/ New York
...DETOX DORMS Colleges provide safe havens for recovering addicts...