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...will die - and also stuff up your toilet. Though the report, in keeping with FTC policy, doesn't indict or endorse specific products, it takes a very serious stance against apple pectin, saying that despite an ad's claim, apple pectin isn't really an "energized enzyme that can ingest up to 900 times it's [sic] own weight in fat." The investigation included not only pills but also those jiggling belts whose infomercials I'd be sorry to see go, and Get Slim Slippers, which, assuming they are poorly constructed, sound to me as if they would indeed provide...
Thus, we must ingest our sudden humanity with a grain of salt. We must recognize the expediency, and not the moral uprightness, underlying our government’s new cause. And we must call it to task on its hypocrisy...
...fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian than tandoori chicken...
...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...
...says the Dutch requirement that the patient experience unbearable suffering is inhumane. "Is the fact that your situation is hopeless not enough?" Lemckert asks. In Oregon, because patients must be able to swallow pills in order to kill themselves, many worry about waiting past the point they can ingest substances. State officials wonder whether the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by excluding those who can't swallow. "And can a family member lift the cup to their lips? I don't know," says Dr. Katrina Hedberg of the Oregon health division. "Those things need to play...