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...Mercedes, a bottle of champagne, the words “bling bling,” and stacks of money—the “cash.” Below them, the “trash” was illustrated by three mulleted white men and an overweight woman by a trailer...

Author: By Irin Carmon, | Title: Talking Trash | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...page report with all the appalled earnestness of a freshman college paper, only with really nice 3-D color charts. At one point it reads: "An ad for a product made from ground-up shells of shrimps, crabs and lobster asks, 'Have you ever seen an overweight fish?'... In fact there is no convincing evidence that the shells of shrimps, crabs or lobsters cause weight loss." Not only that, but, as I accidentally proved in third grade, you can indeed get a fish so fat that it will die--and also stuff up your toilet. Though the report, in keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle-Diet Ads Lie? Well, Duh! | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...page report with all the appalled earnestness of a freshman college paper, only with really nice 3-D color charts. At one point it reads: "An ad for a product made from ground-up shells of shrimps, crabs and lobster asks, 'Have you ever seen an overweight fish?' ... In fact there is no convincing evidence that the shells of shrimps, crabs or lobsters cause weight loss." Not only that, but, as I accidentally proved in third grade, you can indeed get a fish so fat that it will die - and also stuff up your toilet. Though the report, in keeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle-Diet Ads Lie? Well, Duh! | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...clearly in a state of nutritional crisis and in need of radical remedies. The statistics are sobering. After 30 years of seemingly solid advice aimed at lowering dietary fat, Americans have grown collectively fatter than ever. Today more than 60% of adults in the U.S. are classified as overweight or obese. So many children have become so heavy that pediatricians are now facing an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and hypertension--diseases that are closely associated with overweight and that were unheard of among youngsters just a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking the Fat Riddle | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

There are 22 ETFs pegged to Morgan Stanley single-country indexes. A good one-shot foreign portfolio is iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA). But you could add, say, iShares MSCI South Korea (EWY), getting more exposure to a country in which many pros are overweight. Even in a bad market there are winners, and ETFs make it easy to scour the globe for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy the Basket | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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