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This year Marrone is adding two lines: skin care for men and organic, mineral-based makeup (blushes, bronzers, eye shadows and lipsticks) in a subtle palette she had been unable to find. "A woman can eat 5 lbs. [2 kg] of lipstick over her life," says Marrone. "Our lipsticks only have nourishing extracts like shea butter and orange." They also have antioxidant ingredients like green tea, making them functional as well as beautiful. New York City's Bergdorf Goodman was so impressed that the store added the line this winter. And Organic Pharmacy will open a shop in Los Angeles...
...tell you there's no such thing as a magic weight-loss pill. But a paper published today on BMJ.com shows exactly that: Taking federally approved anti-obesity medications, such as Xenical and Acomplia, leads only to modest weight loss - an extra 6 lbs. to 10 lbs. (2.7 kg to 4.7 kg) a year - and it's not likely to radically trim down bulging waistlines. "People have to understand it's very difficult to lose weight," says lead author Raj Padwal, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta...
...today," says Ambootia Tea chairman Sanjay Bansal, who says he has turned around 11 dying tea estates. "That's how I'm able to demand ridiculous prices for my teas." Darjeeling tea, for instance, can be sold for up to 10 times the typical $3.54 per lb. ($1.61 per kg) for other Indian teas, and Ambootia's Brumes d'Himalaya, a "first flush," or spring-harvest, tea, sold at a high-end boutique in Paris two years ago for $727 per lb. ($1,750 per kg...
...correct years of neglect. For decades, India was the biggest producer, exporter and consumer of tea in the world. That changed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, India's largest export market, where demand fell by two-thirds, to less than 88 million lbs. (40 million kg) per year. India's producers had grown reliant on that guaranteed market, failing to maintain their bushes and machinery, and they never really recovered. Sri Lanka and Kenya are now the world's biggest exporters, each selling about 692 million lbs. (314 million kg) in 2006, well ahead of India...
...workers. The Plantation Labor Act of 1951 guarantees not just a minimum wage for workers in tea, coffee and rubber but also housing, education, medical care and drinking water. Those benefits add about 11% to production costs and are the main reason Indian tea costs about $1.62 a kg to produce, compared with $1.23 in Sri Lanka, $1.16 in Kenya and 84¢ in Malawi. Strong unions in India's tea-growing regions have fought to preserve those benefits. Tea-estate workers are paid on average $1.38 a day in northern India and $2.25 in the south, and because the estates...