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...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...
...interviews from Georgia to California, TIME heard voters expressing a sober mix of resignation and resolution. Hindsight is 20/20, people say of the failures in war planning. We made this mess, and we have to clean it up, they say of the task ahead. They'll hate us no matter what we do, they say of the enemy. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, they say of the President. Even as voters fault George W. Bush's judgment, many praise his instincts. "I don't think he has the faculties of his father," says Steve Guest...
...decarb their cocktails. "The spirit is not the problem," says food and wine expert Ted Allen from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, who helped launch the site. "It's the mixer." Liquor and grocery stores are beginning to carry products like Baja Bob's low-carb margarita mix, which has been sold online and in specialty stores for four years and is now getting space at Meijer and other supermarkets in the Midwest and Northwest. Sales were up 380% last year...
...marketing strategy. The idea is to cover mass brands with a thin veneer of glamour to differentiate them from the competition, regardless of whether the product or service is even remotely fabulous. Successful practitioners are selling everything from washing machines to napkins with this strategy, which uses a customized mix of the traditional ingredients. Humor is often added, as if to acknowledge the gulf between the past and the present. Is it still glamour? More important, has it been successful...
...style to full-on male glamour in 1998 with the introduction of his modestly priced urban men's label, Sean John. Revenue has grown steadily, to $175 million. Unlike such labels as Phat Farm, Enyce Clothing and Rocawear, Sean John's line, which includes suits, offers a unique mix of old-school attributes. Combs' recent acquisition of a stake in Zac Posen's couture label reinforces the scarcity and mystery effects. Combs' brand also enjoys a slightly nasty reputation--that's good--not least for his star-crossed association with Lopez. What's more, his 2001 trial for bribery...