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...consuming the highest amount of alcohol per day (more than two drinks daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. "We certainly don't want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a method for weight control, but we were surprised by the strength of the association," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's and a co-author of the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...Katz prefers to look at it this way: "This study suggests that you can probably make room for moderate alcohol consumption and not have it result in weight gain. But we certainly don't want to suggest to people to go out and drink more alcohol as a weight-control strategy...
...result of laborious distribution work. Rather than rely on wholesalers, Tingyi hired specialized staff to ensure that its products were being sold not just in large supermarkets and convenience stores but in the tiny xiaomaibu, or corner grocers, where Chinese consumers still make a large share of incidental purchases. "Control over end distribution channels is one of Tingyi's key competitive advantages," according to the China Brands Index from Hong Kong brokerage CLSA...
...Today's red carpet has been Avatar-ized," he says. And it will only get worse. "In 2011, people won't want anything from last night or even 10 minutes ago, they'll want it now and live," he says breathlessly. "You can't control it. You can lose your whole career in one red carpet in 2011." Not missing a beat, he adds: "I will be there...
...hurdles are many. Putin loyalists control Russia's political institutions as well as the entire bureaucracy. The government controls all the major TV channels. The Kaliningrad protest got virtually no coverage in the mainstream Russian press. Putin has also been able to deflect part of the resentment by dressing down his political party, United Russia, and sending out envoys to show that the Kremlin is paying attention...