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...come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant--the body's way of telling the brain it's time to push the plate away. If a pharmaceutical company could put it in a pill and sell it at the drugstore, you might, just might, never again have to count calories or wrestle with your willpower. Just pop one of these things before a meal, and your stomach says--entirely on its own--"No, thank you, I've had quite enough...
...these kids' lives are the outward sign of their invisible illness. The Spartan infirmary in the main cabin is known as Club Meds. Each day as the 80 campers fish, play basketball, paint or make lanyards, a team of volunteer nurses sit around a table on which hundreds of pills are lined up like jelly beans. If only they were. In a harsh reminder of just how different this camp is, the nurses carry those pills to the camp's 10 cabins two to three times a day. Some kids must pop as many as 30, which can inflict hours...
...nothing was smooth prompted me to see my doctor and begin HRT. I take half the recommended dose of Prempro, and I get along wonderfully. I am concerned about what the Women's Health Initiative study has shown, but for now I will keep taking my little half a pill each day. SARAH J. HEARN Kinsley, Kans...
...some, the damage has already been done. Over the objections of her parents, Wang Ting, a 16-year-old computer student at a Shanghai technical school, started taking an outlawed Chinese diet pill called Qingzhisu several years ago. By September 2001, she had succeeded in dropping from 78 kilos to 57 kilos, but she also complained of headaches and her eyes seemed to bulge...
...passed away last year. "The diet pill companies take advantage of young girls and boast results that aren't real," says Wang's father, Wang Quikan. "Why aren't these things more controlled?" Wang sued the manufacturer but the case was dropped by a Shanghai court for insufficient evidence. "Society's influence is very bad," he says. "It took away my healthy young girl...