| Can this shiny lip gloss slim your hips?
Rub on a lip gloss and lose weight. Sip a berry drink and look younger. Down some iced tea and burn calories. If only it were that simple. “Always on the lips … never on the hips," promise ads for the new "Fuze Slenderize Guilt free" lip gloss. Marketed by Too Faced Cosmetics, the flavored lip gloss claims it can suppress your appetite with the same mix of minerals and ingredients found in Coca-Cola's Fuze energy fruit drinks. As Americans continue to struggle with weight loss, marketers are getting more outlandish with their quick-fix diet claims. At least with Fuze, a blend of the minerals chromium and L-carnitine, along a hydroxycitric acide extract called Super Citrimax, the calorie conscious had to drink a full bottle of the beverage to get the promised hunger-easing metabolism boost.
Saying good-bye to fad diets and pills
As the world turns to fad diets and the empty promises of diet pills, nutritionists and dietitians suggest that the easiest way to gain optimal health is just to, simply, eat healthier. Countless studies have shown that eating certain foods may help protect the heart, reduce the risk of certain cancers and improve various other aspects of your health. Molly Michelman, nutrition professor at UNLV, suggests eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily to reduce the risk of many types of cancer. She also suggests choosing whole grains like brown rice. Eating oranges and other vitamin C rich foods may help eliminate the cancer-causing bacteria, H. pylori, which causes peptic ulcers and untreated, can lead to stomach cancer.
NPS Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Alan G. Harris Chief Medical Officer
BEDMINSTER, N.J., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: NPSP) announced today the appointment of Alan G. Harris, M.D., Ph.D., as senior vice president and chief medical officer. Francois Nader, M.D., executive vice president and chief operating officer, stated: "Alan brings impressive credentials and industry experience to NPS and will play a critical role in leading the company's research and development programs for GATTEX, PREOS and NPSP156. We welcome his insights and contributions as we focus on obtaining regulatory approvals and expanding the potential indications for these innovative product candidates." Before joining NPS, Dr. Harris was chief medical officer of Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, therapeutic head of worldwide medical endocrine care at Pfizer, Inc., and vice president of global health research and outcomes at Schering-Plough Corp.
Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
This lack of definition gives license to label design as innovation rather than the process that generates lots of innovation. For this reason I commend you for goading us arrogant suckers into further discussion about the subject. True, design has been slowly changing its meaning. Design is making it apparent that it will never again be the same in the mind of the beholder. And yes, people do want to participate in the design of their lives, however it's not the kind of design that headlines Business Week, or is taught in business school. Design is about life. Design is an internal and subjective process more than a philosophy; clue as to why it is so difficult to measure. However, I agree that design by ego must subside in order to allow design to present itself to our true creative nature.
Dietary exercises take students from brainstorms to brain freezes
There was a whole lot of slurping going on at Franklin School on Thursday. And there may have been a few children suffering from brain freeze.For the second time this year, lunchtime was turned into a lively nutrition lesson as kids participated in a "Mix It Up" activity focused on the benefits of eating fruit. Their reward for paying attention? A frozen 5-ounce serving of a "strawberry whirl" or "pomegranate paradise" smoothie from Jamba Juice."It doesn't just taste good, it tastes really good!" said first-grader Raghav Bangalore.During each lunch session, students were randomly assigned to one of six tables and asked to brainstorm different ways to eat a banana, apple, cantaloupe, strawberries, raspberries or pomegranate.Fifth-graders Kole Bartley and Kieley Trempy found themselves sitting at the "pomegranate table." They said they loved pomegranates and described the taste as between sweet and sour."You have to eat the seeds," said Kieley, to nods of agreement from Kole.
Spicing up your life can be healthy
Cod liver oil (yes, it actually comes from the livers of the cod) is the fish oil that's richer in vitamin D (the sunshine vitamin) and vitamin A. You always have options. Increasingly, health providers are becoming better advisers. Check out the January issue of Portland Monthly magazine (www.portlandmonthlymag.com) and an article titled "Modern Miracles Meet Ancient Cures." It talks about how effective treatment can become when conventionally trained physicians and alternative healers work together. There's another way to get delicious omega-3 protection. It happens when you sit down to a dinner of baked salmon. In our household it's almost always enhanced by a liberal splash of turmeric. Sharon Johnson is an associate professor in health and human services at Oregon State University.
Stimulus Plan for Candy: Pack It Full of Caffeine
The candy industry is rolling out new sweets packed with more than just sugar. Buzz-inducing candy, spiked with caffeine and, often, vitamins, are the low-growth, $29 billion U.S. candy, gum and chocolate industry's answer to surging competition from energy drinks. And just like those beverages, the caffeine-infused candy often sports a controversial name that critics say evokes illegal drugs. .
Christmassi Tour 2007: Rolo on the road
One of DiS's favourite live bands currently doing circuits of the nation's small-to-mediums, Rolo Tomassi rolled through their December tour keeping notes along the way. Now, DiS can present the band's own account of their Christmassi Tour, 2007. On board: James, Eva, Ed, Joe N and Joe T. Furthering: MySpace. Rolo Tomassi play the DiScover Christmas Party, at London's Notting Hill Arts Club, tomorrow, December 15. Also playing are Tired Irie and Errors. Full details can be found here. - - - CHRISTMASSI TOUR 2007 3/12 – Derby
James: First day! We were collected by Dave in his wonderful van to load in. We have the luxury of a PS2 and a TV in the van, something never experienced before within a Tomassi tour. The Josephs started playing straight away and promptly got travel sick.
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