Supplements

Resveratrol: Fountain of Youth or Waste of Money

Red wine drinkers have been toasting to better health and longer life with all of the news pieces on the miracle that is resveratrol – a component of red grape skin and some other fruits.

Acai Berry Diet: Miracle or Hype?

One of the newest so called “super foods” has found its way out of the deep, dark parts of the rain forest and now is available to work miracles for your health.

Herbalife: What’s The Deal?

Herbalife has been around for over 30 years, but some of their marketing practices call them into question as to whether or not their products are effective and legitimate.

Xenical Ads Offend

Over the past few weeks a series of adverts have been appearing in Canada:
“…in bus shelters, on billboards, on television and in newspapers across the country – showing already slender women wishing they were thinner so that they could wear their bikinis, or strip tease for their husband, or wear that little black dress – if only they could lose a few pounds!”The campaign is called Julie’s Story — and the ads make no reference to the product they are advertising – which turns out to be the prescription diet pill Xenical (Orlistat).Here is a description of one ad:
“I Am Julie.