Word: troup
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DIED. BOBBY TROUP, 80, sharp-witted actor and musician who wrote the classic 1946 road tune (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66; in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Among the artists who recorded Troup's songs--including The Girl Can't Help It and Baby, Baby All the Time--were Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and Manhattan Transfer. In the '70s, Troup was better known as Dr. Joe Early on the TV drama Emergency...
...what proof is there that androstenedione pills are safe or effective? None. In fact, this summer General Nutrition Centers, a national chain of health-food stores, ordered its franchisees not to sell the supplement. "We're not yet satisfied with the safety of this product," says John Troup, vice president for scientific affairs at the chain's corporate parent. "We don't know its effect on the liver, cardiovascular system or secondary sexual characteristics...
...yourselfers gather data from a broad range of sources: from friends, pharmacists and store clerks to magazines, the Internet and other media obsessed with health and fitness. "The No. 1 source of information is probably Oprah Winfrey," Troup says laughing. His favorite resource: GNC's Interactive BioNutritional Encyclopedia, a touch-screen computer that helps customers navigate GNC's bewildering array of multivitamins, herbs, minerals and, coming soon, "nutriceuticals...
This blurring of nutrients and pharmaceuticals is enabled by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which eased restrictions on supplements while letting manufacturers make health claims that are backed by "significant scientific agreement." "We define nutriceuticals," says Troup, choosing his words carefully, "as products that have very specific and demonstrable effects on a health condition or a disease state...
...therein lies the self-medicator's quintessentially American creed: I can do it better. As usual, the boomers lead the way; 35-to-54-year-olds, Troup reports, consume more vitamins and supplements than any other group. From Flintstones vitamins to marijuana to echinacea. Back to the garden, indeed...