Word: psyllium
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...food. The bright and airy Wellness Center is set back from the beach and offers several rigorous regimens, fasts and colonics designed to clean the body inside and out. As a cleansing client, this means I spend my days in Thailand ingesting nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...
...lawsuit brought by alternative-medicine advocates, the FDA is supposed to decide before the end of this week whether the manufacturers of omega-3 pills and fish oils can advertise the fat's heart benefits. If the FDA agrees, omega-3 will join a select group of nutrients, including psyllium, soy and whole oats, that is cleared for similar health claims. The agency was keeping mum in advance about which way it was leaning, but the evidence provided some clues about how it might rule...