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...With body consciousness increasingly an obsession, Asians are overgrazing the smorgasbord of weight-loss products and "miracle" diet aids, ranging from "fat-reducing" pressurized boots to expensive massage regimens. Nobody knows how many are buying untested products of dubious efficacy?certainly consumers number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. At their most harmless, the products are a waste of time, money and good intentions. Some, however, are proving to be deadly. Over the past two years, seven women in Japan, Singapore and China have died due to the toxicity of the substances they ingested in the hope...
...Obesity is a hot topic right now. Citing an epidemic of obesity in America, three senators on Tuesday proposed a bill that would provide millions of dollars to weight-loss programs nationwide. Although the legislation will lie dormant during the Senate's summer recess, its message is clear: We're too fat, and now even the government is worried about...
...appetite in bypass patients may be linked to a recently discovered gastric hormone called ghrelin. Not only that, ghrelin may turn out to be one reason we feel hungry in the first place and why it's so hard for dieters to keep weight off. Understanding how ghrelin works could even lead to effective weight-loss drugs or drugs to promote weight gain in anorexics and cancer patients...
...Ogami. This was business as usual." In reality, there was little that was usual about Ogami and the Asian empire he created by trading on his own hugely hyped public image. Over seven years, Ogami built up a private Tokyo-based company, G.O. Group, that ostensibly sold merchandise like weight-loss tea and electric juicers. In fact, it appears to have existed primarily to feed his ego while bilking investors out of their savings. The company is now bankrupt, and police are investigating Ogami for swindling hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. "The whole business?all of it?was baloney," says...
Once a child has gained too much weight, it's time to get outside help. Many parents turn to weight-loss camps for kids, an industry that seems to be growing as fast as America's waistline. Camp can seem like the answer, especially when an overweight child comes home as much as 50 lbs. lighter--but beware. Kids who lose in the summer often gain it right back come fall...