The cookie that could end my career?

You have to love the indomitable human spirit. Such innovative genius, such creativity, such. . . suckerdom?

One of the more curiously interesting parts of my job involves keeping up to date on all the latest trends - truth, hype, or flat-out falsehoods. The quest for shapelier breasts never ends, and since the tired-and-true method of breast augmentation is, well, surgery, there is always a flashy new product promising the impossible.

I'll have to check out my local Marukai Market to see if they're stocking these Japanese treats, cunningly named "F-Cup Cookie" - available in two flavors (soy milk, and pralines and chocolate, for those of you who are wondering). According to a post in the LA Weekly Food Blog, the cookies contain an herbal root called Pueraria mirifica whose plant estrogens are supposed to do all sorts of things for you, including a boost to your breast size.

Normally I'd say that although eating a cookie like this won't increase your bust, it probably won't hurt. But as Emma Courtland, the LA Weekly blogger eloquently states at the end of her piece: This post is not an endorsement of plastic surgery. Also, F Cup Cookie may cause "loose bowels if taken in excess."

I think my plastic surgical career may be safe after all.