| Ready for big morning tea
All over town, the tea totlers are gathering: warming pots, rattling cups and cooking scones - as Australia's biggest cancer fundraiser gets underway on Thursday, May 27. Australia's Biggest Morning Tea is a fun, easy way everyone can help reduce the impact of cancer on the community. Local businesses and community groups are rallying to the cause by hosting their own morning teas in Tenterfield. People who want to help support cancer patients and fund research should call 1300 65 65 85 and register to host a morning tea on May 27. Last year, people throughout NSW raised $2.9 million for cancer research, prevention and support services and this year we have a target of $120,000 for the north west. Cancer survivor Sandra Gleeson of Tamworth and The Cancer Council NSW, are joining forces to urge the people of north west NSW to make two very important phone calls this month.
Going Skin Deep
Today's fountain of youth is filled with a strange brew of fairy-tale herbs and chemicals: Chaga mushrooms, osmolytes, coffeeberry extract, polyhydroxy acids, silver tip white tea, rhodiola. Americans shelled out $44.6 billion for anti-aging products and services in 2004 alone, according to a report by Business Communications. A 2004 online survey of 1, 343 Americans 25 and older, conducted by Harris Interactive, found that 72 percent of women and 13 percent of men had used or were then using an over-the-counter anti-aging product. Nineteen percent of women and 6 percent of men reported using prescription face creams, masks or gels. .
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