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...that's just for breakfast. In ever greater numbers, Americans are embracing self-medication: a roll-your-own approach to health care that favors home-designed, prevention-oriented vitamin and drug regimens. "Forty-five percent of the U.S. population is using vitamin and mineral supplements," says John Troup of General Nutrition Centers, the U.S.'s biggest retail supplement chain. "It's a trend that's definitely become mainstream...
...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...
...lost my lover" types of songs. What I heard there taught me that the Blues is not just Lady Day crooning in a darkened, smoke-filled, hole-in-the-wall nightclub, although that is a part of it. No, the Blues varies from James Brown to the gospel troup Blind Boys from Alabama. It goes from funk to jazz to rock-n-roll to country. But all of these are not subsets of the Blues. I suppose they are considered to be the Blues if they exhibit, in Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s words, "that long and lonesome feeling," whatever...
Foster joins recent honorees Diane Keaton (1991), Glenn Close (1990) and Kathleen Turner (1989). The troup will present its Man of the Year award to Michael Douglas next week...