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HEALTH: Ephedra is out, but that doesn't mean you can trust other weight-loss supplements...
Just in time for any New Year's weight-loss resolutions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week announced its intention to ban dietary supplements that contain any of six stimulants collectively known as ephedra alkaloids. Folks who don't mind risking their health in a desperate attempt to cut a few pounds (you know who you are) may be upset, but the rest of us should be pleased. The FDA has received more than 16,000 reports of complications--ranging from dizziness to strokes--that may have been triggered by the supplement, and it has linked ephedra...
According to Blackburn, this 15 pound loss was significant because it is the average result of what a medical weight-loss treatment program would produce...
Much has been made of the fact that Redd has lost around 60 pounds since last fall. (She first began a weight-loss push in her senior year, walking into Leizer’s spinning class in Martinsville in anticipation of appearing in Glamour.) After all, how purportedly feminist can a pageant be if you have to fit that societal mold of thinness? She scorns these criticisms, even listing the weight loss as her “greatest achievement” in the pageant magazine...
...desk, among the papers of nutritional arcana are drawings of incarnations of the food pyramid. An unopened weight-loss shake sits on the side of the desk—for demonstration, not use. Plastic tomatoes, carrots and apples rest on the shelf behind him, next to a plastic bread loaf and an incongruous miniature lobster...