Word: mirkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's no way the consumer can know if any of these beverages are really doing all that they claim to do," said Dr. Gabe Mirkin, associate professor at Georgetown University Medical School, to Time. For example, it takes six bottles of SoBe Wisdom to reach the amount shown in clinical studies to reduce stress...
What Greed's viewers will see is not exactly the show Clark originally had in mind. Assembling two Hollywood game-show veterans--Bob Boden, a producer of the syndicated Family Feud, and Jeff Mirkin, whose credits include Love Connection and Studs--Clark outlined a quiz format that would involve group participation and a share-the-wealth ethos. "I was inspired by those scenes of lottery winners--you know, the guys in the office who chipped in on a ticket." That first meeting produced a working title, All for One, and the notion that the questions would be based...
...manufacturers try not to get too specific in the health claims for their beverages, for fear of provoking the FDA. Says Dr. Gabe Mirkin, associate professor at Georgetown University Medical School: "There's no way the consumer can know if any of these beverages are really doing all that they claim to do." Many of the putatively healing potions contain little more than trace elements of the prominently mentioned herbal ingredients, says Mirkin. For example, in order to take aboard the dosage of St. John's wort that clinical tests have shown to reduce stress, one would have to drink...
...make jokes about his age, like "I hope the next half is just as exciting," admits that a brain operation after a fall has left him feeling less than sprightly. But Burns knows that the secret to longevity is equanimity. "Nothing ever bothers him," says his longtime friend Barry Mirkin. "I call him the love...