Word: kava
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...stop to a lot of our fun," says Puloka. As well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless in public...
...still live the kastom way, following traditional codes and hierarchies that have survived 160 years of contact with the outside world. They are lucky, for the land is usually so fertile that people have plenty of time to tend their culture as well as their crops of taro or kava. Even as the modern world encroaches, the old ways hold fast. On Tanna, home of chocolate-colored butterflies and nights perfumed by huge orange trumpet lilies, you can find resorts and fancy foreign wine, but never far away are the tupunis, the men who believe they can conjure up cyclones...
...Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, which issued a "dirty dozen" list of supplements that have been linked to cancer, kidney or liver damage and heart problems and some of which have been banned in Europe and Asia. What to avoid: aristolochic acid, comfrey, androstenedione, chaparral, germander, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe. In addition, the FDA says, consumers should steer clear of supplements called Actra-Rx and Yilishen, which contain prescription-strength levels of sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra. It can lower blood pressure to dangerous levels...
...prove that supplements are not safe. The FDA last week got a prod when Consumers Union (CU) warned Americans that they should avoid a "dirty dozen" that may cause cancer, kidney or liver damage, even death. The list: aristolochic acid (birthwort), comfrey, germander, androstenedione, chaparral, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe...
...much export sales of kava have dropped for South Pacific islands ever since the release of a German report last year that claimed the popular medicinal root could cause liver damage...