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...easy. Dr. Weil, reasonable fellow, says eat salmon, olive oil, garlic, soy sauce, ginger, broccoli. I like all that stuff. But Weil, dietary despot, also suggests eating tofu, which is organic styrofoam; drinking Japanese green tea, which tastes like water in which tadpoles have died; and popping 6,000 mg a day of vitamin C, which sours my giblets. I'll give these a miss. And, ouch, here it comes: "Moderate or eliminate intake of animal foods, booze, coffee and news...
...Getting the Recommended Daily Allowance of 60 mg of VITAMIN C may not be enough for optimal health. Researchers believe the new RDA should probably be 200 mg--about the amount in 11/2 cups of fresh orange juice. More than 400 mg daily appears to provide no further benefit...
TAKE A PUFF OF TOBACCO, AND A BLAST OF 4,000 CHEMICALS fills your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...
...easy to see why. Storefront signs in Los Algodones advertise 28 tablets of Prozac for $31.60, vs. $69.95 in the U.S. The estrogen supplement Premarin costs $6.50 for 42 tablets, compared with $30. A bottle of 90 10-mg tablets of Valium retails for $8.75, instead...
...same as eating a vegetable. Scientist suspect there are other natural ingredients that work with the vitamins to promote health. But whether this news will put an end to the beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention is to do what mother said, and eat those vegetables...