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...slow burn. My parents put me on the drug when I was eight. It was pretty much the doctor saying, "He's hyperactive," my parents agreeing and the doctor whipping out the prescription pad. For the next six years, my parents told me I was taking a vitamin supplement. I'm still paying for what this garbage did to my system--and I'm 38. I've seen true, medically hyperactive kids. I wasn't one of them. What kind of society is it in which so many of us take the easiest option and drug our children with...
...tiny slice of the $20 billion U.S. beverage market--but the one that's growing fastest. Sales are expected to reach $100 million this year, up from just $20 million in 1997. Most of the products are teas and juices mixed with a variety of herbal, mineral and vitamin supplements. SoBe Wisdom, for instance, contains ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort and gotu kola, which, the label says, promote "focused thought" and "sharpen the mind." Hansen's "d stress" (kava kava, St. John's wort and tyrosine) is supposed to help you "chill out naturally." Fresh Samantha's Super Juice...
...available herbs and other supplements seem particularly appealing. Consumers value them as preventive measures, as something distinct from potent pharmaceutical drugs that are prescribed only after disease strikes. "Doctors are getting more and more inaccessible," says Leda Jean Van Stedum, 45, a Denver secretary who was shopping in a Vitamin Cottage chain store for preparations of black cohosh and dong quai to head off premenstrual discomfort...
Research on many herbs is generally at the stage where studies of vitamins and minerals were a decade ago. Vitamins, though, are easier to investigate because the active ingredients in plant remedies can take years to identify. Vitamin C has been shown to protect against infection and bruises, while vitamin E improves circulation and helps lower blood pressure. But megadoses of many nutrients can have dangerous side effects. Overuse of vitamin D, a substance that promotes the growth of bone and teeth in children, can be particularly toxic, as can overuse of the mineral iron by older adults...
...multiple coronary bypasses (1976, 1993), an angioplasty with stents (successful just the other day; a couple of efforts to unblock other coronary tunnels by angioplasty failed painfully), and a supporting cast of ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, cholesterol thwarters, diuretics, aspirin to make the platelets slippery, nitroglycerine, blood-pressure suppressants, vitamin E, folic acid, a rowing machine, a stoic personality and the diet of a desert mystic. It goes without saying that a heart attack is also a good way to quit smoking. I was instantly cured of nicotine addiction that night in Kansas City...