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...With minimal grunting, you can gain 10 Pounds of Lean Mass in Only Seven Days ($26.24). These new creations make big promises at The Vitamin Shoppe (28 JFK St., Cambridge; 354-8765; Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.). Ye olde shoppe is cyber-savvy, with a computer which answers questions which can dispense detailed medical information. Energy pills sound sexy, but they're basically just caffeine (think Jessie Spano). Act quick and you can take advantage of their 20 to 40 percent-off sale which ends today...
...white meat chicken meatballs. Entrees $3.75 to $7.25. All items list calories, fat, carbs and protein content. The bus ride is roughly 25 minutes, so unless you're cool with missing the afternoon tutorial, then you should make a night of it. Appropriately named, Flex Appeal, the wholesale vitamin store next door, is the place to go to watch large shirtless men do what they do best...
...people swear that ginkgo has changed their lives. So effective has the advertising blitz been that ginkgo products seem to be leaping off the shelves. Even old-line pharmaceutical houses are offering their versions of brain boosters. In their first year on the market, Bayer Consumer Care's new vitamin pills, spiked with ginkgo--and sold under the label Memory and Concentration Formula--took in a cool $8 million...
Although I take 250 mg of vitamin C each day, I'm pretty much a skeptic when it comes to dietary supplements. Most of the ones I've seen are basically patent medicines whose proponents, seizing on a few isolated facts about the body, tout a treatment plan that has more to do with magic than medicine. But occasionally a supplement like SAMe (pronounced sam-me) comes along that piques even my interest. It's supposed to combat depression, ease aching joints and possibly revitalize the liver. I'm not convinced these claims are true, but I think they...
...important for proper development--even a short bout of mild anemia, for example, can have permanent effects on young brains--that Roberts and Heyman recommend daily supplements (though not megavitamins) for kids at least up to age three. And no, they didn't take money from the vitamin companies to make that recommendation...