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Is Workout Supplement Ingredient DMAA Safe? Researcher Calls on FDA to Ban Speed-Like Ingredient DMAA May 7, 2012 -- About one week after the FDA asked 10 manufacturers to provide safety information on DMAA, a speed-like ingredient found in some supplements, a Harvard researcher is calling for an out-and-out ban on DMAA.

DR. PIETER COHEN is scanning the shelves inside a shop in Chinatown here when something familiar - and potentially dangerous - catches his eye. "What's that yellow box, behind the other one?" Dr. Cohen asks the clerk.

WHAT does self-awareness have to do with a restaurant empire? A tennis championship? Or a rock star's dream? David Chang's experience is instructive. Mr. Chang is an internationally renowned, award-winning Korean-American chef, restaurateur and owner of the Momofuku restaurant group with eight restaurants from Toronto to Sydney, and other thriving enterprises, including bakeries and bars, a PBS TV show, guest spots on HBO's "Treme" and a foodie magazine, Lucky Peach.

Black Pepper May Help Fight Fat Pungent Ingredient in Black Pepper Targets Fat Cells May 4, 2012 -- The same ingredient in black pepper that makes you sneeze may help keep you slim. A preliminary new study suggests that the pungent component in black pepper known as piperine fights fat by blocking the formation of new fat cells.

Although surprising, many traditional holiday foods such as turkey and cranberries benefit your heart and your brain. The magic ingredient-antioxidants.