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...JetBlue, a low-cost alternative with amenities like seat-back TVs. "The business traveler used to be American's bread and butter, but the butter is a little thinner these days," admits executive vice president Dan Garton. But American's elite clientele will see improvements this summer--a low-carb, high-protein breakfast as well as more power ports--and more frequent service on the main bicoastal routes, like New York to Los Angeles...
...what's the optimal mix of carbs, fat and protein? Experts disagree as to exact numbers, but a middle-of-the-road menu calls for 25% of calories from healthy oils, 20% from lean protein and 55% from complex carbs. So if the low-carb mantra has made you cut simple sugars and refined carbohydrates from your diet, great. But if you are skimping on produce and whole grains and instead shoveling animal and dairy fats into your body, you are short-changing your health. "The diet-industrial-complex is now pushing low carbs full steam ahead," says Wurtman...
...thing scientists do know is that much of the yummy stuff in low-carb diets--think filet mignon with bearnaise sauce--comes loaded with artery-clogging saturated fats. Low-carb mania has not upended the scientific consensus that saturated fats are the enemy: a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke...
...CARB ECONOMY With nearly 100 million Americans cutting carbs, the dieting frenzy has produced a thriving $30 billion industry. Are these products good...
...years now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported nothing but bad news about our expanding waistlines. But as this week's cover story on low-carb mania demonstrates, Americans are revising their bad habits. Out of a sense that the obesity epidemic may be peaking and that the country is ready for change, TIME and ABC News have decided to address the issue head on--in print, on the air and at a joint summit on obesity next month...