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HERB ALERT Watch out for the Chinese herb Aristolochia fangchi. Already linked to kidney failure, it is now thought to be the cause of tumors in the kidney and elsewhere along the urinary tract among patients in Belgium who took it as part of a weight-loss program. The highly toxic herb is likely to be present in a host of botanicals, including Dutchman's pipe, guan mu ton, heart snake root and birthwort. The FDA plans to seize any substance with Aristolochia that turns up at U.S. ports...
DIED. MARK HUGHES, 44, multimillionaire founder of a controversial health-products company, Herbalife; of natural causes; in Malibu, Calif. Hughes' sales methods and enthusiastic claims for weight-loss supplements led to federal scrutiny and fines in the 1980s, though his company has since prospered...
...regimen that includes robust foods like carrots and lettuce, a gray-haired meat chomper probably looks pretty intimidating. Ornish and Atkins were together in Washington Thursday, joined by numerous other diet "gurus" for the government-sponsored "Great Nutrition Debate." Accusations of quackery were exchanged freely between the panelists, whose weight-loss prescriptions range from Atkins' all-protein pork-and-beef fest to John McDougall's Asian rice plan. The only thing anyone could agree on was that Americans need to lose weight...
...which is defined distressingly as "every waking hour," or about 12 hours per day. Study participants were timed with a metronome in order to establish a uniform chewing rate. "Every little bit helps, I guess," says TIME senior science reporter Alice Park. "But probably the most important weight-loss aspect of gum chewing is that you have something in your mouth all the time, so you can't eat anything...
...PHILOSOPHY] Foods are assigned points, and you eat only those that don't exceed a total based on your weight-loss goal...