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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There is a world of difference, however, between an herbal supplement that you might take for a few weeks at a stretch and something you could easily eat or drink every day for the rest of your life. Ginkgo biloba, for example, has been linked to bleeding problems. It would be a whole lot easier for you to ingest too much of it accidentally if it is found in your iced tea, your corn chips and your soup than if you take it only sporadically as a supplement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Herbal Warning | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...ironic that many herbally enhanced foods contain such small amounts of their active ingredients that they probably don't have any biological effect at all. What they do have plenty of, however, is excess calories, which hardly seems healthy or worth the added cost. So while the FDA and the food manufacturers duke it out over herbal additives, do yourself a favor and stock up on the true, original health foods: tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus, apples, pears and other fruits and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Herbal Warning | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of the Perfect Cleansing in Thailand | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...visit to Stanford now offers quite a contrast. On a recent afternoon, students and faculty visited a reproductive-health fair featuring displays like "The Politics of Choice," "Barriers to Abortion" and even "Herbal Abortifacients." The fair was part of a nine-week reproductive-health course where abortion is amply covered. Also, Stanford students can now opt to spend their ob-gyn rotation in a Planned Parenthood clinic, where they can observe abortions being performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Med Students Put Abortion Back In The Classroom | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...February conference, Eisenberg urged that more basic research be done into the efficacy and safety of herbal therapies and other non-traditional treatments...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Med School To Study Alternative Medicine | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

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