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Consider the latest electronic health scare: about the artificial sweetener aspartame, which is found in everything from Equal to Diet Coke. A widely disseminated e-mail by a "Nancy Markle" links aspartame to Alzheimer's, birth defects, brain cancer, diabetes, Gulf War syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis and seizures. Right away, the long list warrants skepticism. Just as no single chemical cures everything, none causes everything...
...enough to make you reach for a bowl of ice cream. For years researchers have said that maintaining a diet that's high in fiber--found in fruits, vegetables and whole grains--should lower your risk of developing colon cancer. Now comes word that a study of nearly 89,000 women, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, has found that fiber makes no difference. A smaller study of men in 1997 arrived at a similar conclusion. This is the sort of neck-snapping nutritional news that drives consumers crazy. First something is good for you; then...
...Diet Pill: Effective, If Messy...
...things really go better with Coke? The company and several major book publishers are betting they do. As part of a combined strategy to put more pizzazz in Diet Coke's image and more fizz in book sales, the Coca-Cola company launched an unusual cross-marketing campaign with six publishing houses Monday: Buy a 12- or 24-pack of Diet Coke or caffeine-free Diet Coke and get an excerpt from one of six new books inside...
...Diet Coke approached several publishers whose authors appeal to both men and women after surveys indicated that Diet Coke drinkers like to read. Presented with the possibility that some 40 million Diet Coke drinkers might be turned into some 40 million readers, the publishers jumped at the opportunity. Among the authors the companies chose for the launching of the new cooperative enterprise: Barbara Taylor Bradford, Elmore Leonard and Lisa Scottoline. Diet Coke now hopes you'll be the first to collect all six. As for the publishers, they hope you'll want to quench your thirst for more...