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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Reese launches plus-size clothing line
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES-DeUa
Reese is tired of boring
clothes for larg^ women. So
the plus-size actress has
started her own clothing line.
“It’s very difficult for me to
find anything wilh shape or
color ... some oomph,” said
Reese, who described herself
as 5 feet 2 inches tall and 200
poxmds.
Reese, 74, has designed her
own vividly hued outfits for
years. Her fine, Della Reese
Fashions, will debut April 4
on the Home Shopping
Network.
“I want to give women the
opportunity to have some
pizazz also,” said Reese, who
starred in TV’s “Tbiodied by
an Angel.”
Her fine of cocktail, office
and casual wear will feature a
range of colors.
“I like bright yellows,
oranges, reds. I like purple
and pink, not just purple and
purple and purple,” she said
Reese is also an activist
against diabetes and a church
pastor. Four months ^o, she
received a doctorate in divini
ty fi'om the University of
Metaphysics in Arizona.
Hormone injection comes with risks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO—Injecting him
self with human growth hor-
mcaie six times a week and
swallowing a handful of
dietary supplements each day
doesn’t seem weird or exces
sive to 44-year-old Richard
Weisman of Las Vegas.
“I have young children. I do
it for them,” said Weisman,
tile owner of a luxury and
sports car dealership at
Caesar’s Palace. “I want to be
healthy as I get older.”
Not only that, he said, he
also feds an increase in ener
gy musde mass and Hbido.
“My wife loves it and is going
to start the program herself,”
he said.
Weisman isn’t alone. Other
ordinary non-athletic
Americans are injecting
themselves with human
growth hormone as part of a
regimen prescribed by fringe
doctors and a multimiUion-
doUar anti-aging industry
that—depending on who’s
talking—is either sohdly
based on science or mostly
huckst^isin and quackery
Much of anti-^ing medi
cine, or as it’s more often
called in recent years “age-
management” medicine,
relies on dietary supple
ments, nutrition counseling
and exercise programs.
But a portion of patients
also get blood tests that detect
supposedly low levels of a
marker for human growth
hormone. Those patients
often go home with a prescrip
tion for irqectable HGH and a
$500 monthly hormone bill
that insurance doesn’t touch.
Human growth hormone is
produced naturally by the
pituitary gland and con
tributes to normal growth in
children. In studies, HGH has
been shown to increase mus
cle mass and reduce fat in
men and women, with notable
side effects, including dia
betes.
A pharmaceutical version is
approved for treating children
who fail to grow for various
reasons, for AIDS patients
with muscle wasting syn
drome and for adults with
legitimate growth hormone
deficiency caused, for exam
ple, by siorgery or radiation.
Other uses are illegal,
including to turn back the
clock on aging. Ihe FDA says
it is investigating violations of
the law—the Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act as amended in
1988 and 1990—and has s^t
wanning letters to companies
Helling HGH over the Internet
for other uses.
University of Illinois-
Chicago epidemiologist Jay
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Olshansky who co-authored a
paper published last year in
the Journal of the American
Medical Association on legal
issues surrounding HGH,
said anti-aging doctors were
suiprised to learn they were
on shaky legal groimd.
They now are chaining tac
tics by redefinii^ growth hor
mone d^ciency and making
questionable diagnoses of
their patients, Olshansky
said.
“They've been administer-
ing growth hormone as an
anti-^mg intervention for a
long time. 'They haven’t been
hiding it at aU,” Olshansky
said. ‘Now they’re trying to
redefine it as a treatment for
growth hormone deficiaicy”
Most prescriptions for HGH
should go to children, accord
ing to Dr. Thomas Peris of
Boston Medical Center, but 74
percent in 2004 went to people
age 20 and older.
“In my opinion, that sug
gests a large amount of illegal
distribution,” said Peris, a co
author with Olshansky of the
JAMA paper and director of a
project that studies people
who live to age 100.
Sales of HGH in 2004
totaled $622 million for legiti
mate and non-legitimate uses.
Weisman, the Las Vegas car
dealer, said he pays $1,000 a
month for supplements and
hormones, and a twice-yearly
blood test costs him $650 each
time.
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