Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old--And Made Billions by Arlene Weintraub

Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old--And Made Billions

Arlene Weintraub

246 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health science informative slow-paced

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The beauty industry--which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty--has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and "bio-identical" hormones--all promoted as "cures" ...

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