{"id":135,"date":"2005-03-26T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T03:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/26\/careful-what-you-ask-for-dept\/"},"modified":"2005-03-26T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T03:10:27","slug":"careful-what-you-ask-for-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/26\/careful-what-you-ask-for-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful What You Ask For Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4768'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/drinkingtoo.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"158\" align=\"left\">      A<br \/>\n        new chewing gum, which its makers claim can help enhance breasts, is proving<br \/>\n        to be a big hit in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>  The makers claim Bust-Up gum can also help improve circulation, reduce stress<br \/>\n  and fight aging, if chewed three or four times a day.<\/p>\n<p>  The gum releases compounds, contained in an extract from a plant called Pueraria<br \/>\n  mirifica that helps to keep the muscle tissue in good order.<\/p>\n<p>  Pueraria mirifica, also known as Kwao Krua, is a species found in Thailand and<br \/>\n  Myanmar and has long been used by hill tribe people as a traditional medicine.<\/p>\n<p>  The plant&#8217;s underground tubers contain a number of chemicals called phytoestrogens<br \/>\n  &#8211; natural compounds that mimic the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen.<\/p>\n<p>  Makers of the gum cite tests carried out by Thailand&#8217;s Chulalongkorn University<br \/>\n  that found Pueraria mirifica therapy was able to enhance breast size by 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>  Further tests carried out in England found that the plant had a beneficial effect<br \/>\n  on the skin and hair as well.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/english\/doc\/2005-03\/22\/content_427086.htm\">China Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chewing gum, which its makers claim can help enhance breasts, is proving to be a big hit in Japan. The makers claim Bust-Up gum can also help improve circulation, reduce stress and fight aging, if chewed three or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/26\/careful-what-you-ask-for-dept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}