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Creatine--more accurately, creatine monohydrate--is one of the country's most popular nutritional supplements. Almost as easy to buy as a pack of gum, it's available as capsules, powder or liquid at health-food stores, drug stores and on the Internet. The packaging promises to maximize your strength, endurance and muscle size. Last year an estimated $400 million worth was sold. Most buyers are adults looking to get a better pump at the gym, but there are signs that users are getting younger...
Krebs' parents say their son has always been a performer. They had a closet full of costumes that he played with when he was young. His favorite character was a sort of cowboy; he called him "gum-fighter-stick...
...skimped; it's there in Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt and in a host of lesser figures across the world, including Australia--Sydney Long's Pan, 1898, with its fauns and sweetly sexless hippies cavorting discreetly by the evening billabong, takes great formal advantage of the serpentine shapes of native gum trees...
...disease or stroke isn?t enough to keep you from lighting up, maybe the idea of walking around without any teeth will do the trick. According to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoke is a major contributor to the development of gum disease and subsequent tooth loss. In fact, smokers who puff away on a pack a day are six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop periodontitis, or advanced gun disease. More moderate smokers are also at a high risk; as little as half a pack a day can mean...
...report, which crystallizes long-standing theories linking smoking with gum disease, follows on the heels of last week?s announcement from the Surgeon General analyzing the various causes and effects of poor oral hygiene. That survey also pinpointed the populations most likely to be affected by gum disease: Black men and low income adults. Those populations are also the most likely to smoke. As grim as the findings may be, health officials sounded optimistic Tuesday as they discussed the implications of the study. Faced with a clear causative relationship between cigarettes and gum disease, officials figure they are in perfect...