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...brighter one was filled with the sheer exuberance of a bunch of kids from Toms River, N.J., as they pursued their ultimately successful dream of winning the World Series in Little League Baseball. The darker one stemmed from Mark McGwire's defiant confirmation that he's been taking a supplement called androstenedione, which its manufacturers claim will boost testosterone levels. While it's perfectly legal in the U.S. and the major leagues for McGwire to take the supplements, it sends an absolutely wrong health message to kids everywhere. If he does beat Roger Maris' home-run record, there will always...
CREATINE A nonprescription supplement widely available at nutrition stores, creatine primes muscles to recover quickly from workouts. Users can thus pump iron more often and bulk up faster. The major known side effects are dizziness, diarrhea and cramping...
ERYTHROPOIETIN (EPO) This is the drug under investigation at the Tour de France. EPO is a natural protein that stimulates production of red blood cells, which carry oxygen. Taken as a supplement, it loads the blood with red cells and delivers more oxygen, permitting greater endurance. The downside: excess red cells turn the blood gelatinous, forcing the heart to work harder. Some two dozen heart-attack deaths have reportedly been linked...
...troublesome that Americans seem to think HMOs "deny their patients proper care." HMOs mostly do exactly what they are contracted to do. If people want more, they should supplement the coverage with their own money or go somewhere else. That's the American way. And if HMOs are making such obscene profits, let's go buy stock in 'em. CHARLES H. LOWRY Garden Grove, Calif...
...elbows; her eyes dart from pool table to door; and her butt compulsively scoots around inside her baggy jeans. Crank kills the appetite, just wipes it out, and while many women she knows view this as a selling point, Jennifer doesn't want to lose more weight. Hoping to supplement the child-support check that turns to drugs the day it hits her mailbox, she'd applied for a job as a cocktail waitress, but her meth-shrunken breasts didn't fill the skimpy costume...