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...cause death, and direct them to abandon claims that ephedrine helps users to build muscle and lose weight. The regulations will also prohibit manufacturers from recommending use for more than seven consecutive days. The move follows a recent FDA proposal which attempted to curb the use of Herbal Ecstasy, an ephedrine-based product which promised users a "natural high." Ephedrine supplements net between $15 and $30 million a year for leading manufacturers...
...also rebutted the claims made about the cover. Their eyes aren't slanted--get a ruler and check. The teeth are simply elongated, just as the rest of their faces are, one of the most common techniques in caricatures. The President is serving coffee (get it?), not herbal tea. The Vice-President is wearing a Buddhist monk's attire and carrying a money-filled pauper's pot because, surprise, he solicited thousands of dollars at a Buddhist temple in California. The Clintons are wearing Chinese clothes because, when you go begging someone for money in Rome...
...recently as two years ago, few people had even heard of Weil. Since 1995, few people haven't. Weil's newest book, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, a familiar mix of herbal medicine and nutrition and life-style tips, is entering its eighth week at the top of the best-seller lists, with more than 650,000 copies in print. An earlier book, Spontaneous Healing, is in its 65th week on the lists, with a press run of more than 1 million. His site on the World Wide Web--cozily titled "Ask Dr. Weil"--recorded 1 million hits in April...
...recently published Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (Random House, $25). At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form...
...confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine samples so that they can be tested for drug use. Moreover, professional testers say that idiosyncrasies in sampling time or diet could alter results seriously. Some herbal teas, for example, can give false indications of heroin use. Personal Health and Hygiene, the company formed by Brown to market his kit, maintains that all potential snafus will be explained and that all test results will be confirmed prior to release to customers. No word on what advice Brown...