When Dan Gerkey was trying to get into better shape a few years ago, he tried out a dietary supplement from a local store that promised to help build his strength. At first, the stuff worked. But after several weeks the police officer, who lives in Fraser, Mich., started feeling exhausted, and his wife noticed a yellowish tinge in his eyes.
Soon, Mr. Gerkey’s skin also yellowed, and it itched so fiercely that taking a shower or pulling on his socks became agonizing. Eventually, a liver specialist at Henry Ford Health …

Time Magazine
Its easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubus grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you dont have much money. Most local merchants are happy to break open a pack and sell cigarettes one at a time — single sticks, as theyre known — for about 10 Nigerian naira, or 7 cents. “St. Moritz is the most popular brand,” says Yakubu. “But [people] also like Rothmans and Benson & Hedges.”
Single sticks go fast at 7 cents each — an especially good price …

Cheerios…the wonder drug?
That’s what the Food and Drug Administration appears to be wondering.
The FDA has sent a warning letter to General Mills, telling the company that its claims about the health benefits of eating Cheerios “would cause it to be a drug because the product is intended for use in the prevention, mitigation and treatment of disease.”
The problem: Cheerios are a food not a drug, the FDA notes in the letter, which was sent May 5 but was posted on the agency’s website today. Thus, claims that the 68-year-old whole-grain oat cereal …

What exactly does it mean when a bottle of fruit juice wearing a cape declares, “I’m off to save prostates!”? What are we to think when we see the same bottle with a hangman’s noose cut from its neck and are told it can “cheat death”? And what about when it’s lying on a psychoanalyst’s couch and is declared to be in “heart therapy”?Well, for starters don’t take those things seriously, says the maker of Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice.
” ‘Cheat death’ is simply the use of puffery, tongue in cheek. It’s …