Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seen them at your local sandwich shop or supermarket: exotic-looking, oversize bottles and sleek cans with names like SoBe Wisdom, Fresh Samantha's Super Juice and Mystic Potions. Their labels are meant to suggest either New Age healing powers or the latest in scientific nutrition, and they carry prices to match: about $2 for 14 ounces of SoBe's latest line...
...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 is spiked with echinacea, believed...
...putatively healing potions contain little more than trace elements of the prominently mentioned herbal ingredients, says Mirkin. For example, in order to take aboard the dosage of St. John's wort that clinical tests have shown to reduce stress, one would have to drink six bottles of SoBe Wisdom a day. Which SoBe wouldn't mind...
...seemed unedited, but at times her responses were actually lines from her new book, Book. She gave true and honest responses that match her philosophy in Book, but she crafted sections of her text into her answers. To an adoring fan, her wisdom may have seemed natural and unrehearsed. But for readers Book, we heard another almost flawless performance...
...know, when I was going to college, there was this 12-year-old perfect master, a guru, in India, and people flocked to him to learn the truth from this guy. I think this guy Dick Albert is such a person that he has some kind of inner wisdom that he could share with all of us. But for now, it's just the forecast...