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There's fat, and then there's trans fat (e.g., "hydrogenated" oils)--also known as trans-fatty acids. Food manufacturers began using them in place of saturated fats in the 1980s. Trans fats extended the shelf life of certain products, and foodmakers thought they made edibles safer. Turns out trans fats, like saturated fats, raise bad cholesterol (LDL) and may lower good cholesterol (HDL). As if that weren't bad enough, they may also increase the risk of diabetes. Current labeling guidelines don't require manufacturers to state how many grams of trans fats are in a product...
...start in business as a 21-year-old, when his father died and he took over the family's small prosciutto-ham factory. On a trip to Sweden, he noticed milk packaged in cartons and brought the concept to Italy. Later he adopted a process for making shelf-stable, nonrefrigerated milk and introduced it to Italy, eventually expanding globally. According to Tonna's testimony and bankers familiar with the company's operations, Parmalat started running into trouble after a big, costly international expansion into Latin America and the U.S. in the 1990s. Consumers didn't convert to long-life milk...
...first competition 3-2 to the third guy in the nation [Penn’s Matt Valenti], and after that he recovered, but then he was hit again,” Weiss said. “He’s so good, but he might be on the shelf for the rest of the year...
Meanwhile, Sales and Marketing Manager Jeffrey N. Surette ’05 has been contacting local retailers—including Newbury Comics, the Coop, Harvard Bookstore and Tower Records—to give the album shelf space. Some retailers may set up displays for the Veritas compilation; Tower is considering putting it in a listening booth. Surette is also in talks with upstart online organizations such as iTunes and Napster 2.0 about getting the music into their catalogs. The individual bands will also sell the album, but the main venue for distribution will be a massive outdoor concert party that...
...haven’t seen a goal like that for a long time,” junior center Brendan Bernakevitch said. “That was straight-up—got the [deke] and put it top-shelf. You can’t ask for a prettier goal...