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Finally, some low-carb products never had many carbs to begin with. Wish-Bone Carb Options ranch dressing has zero carbs, but the regular version has just 1 g per 2tbsp. serving. Unless you're knocking the stuff back like beer at a frat party, the difference is a joke. And speaking of beer, Miller Lite now markets itself as a low-carb brew though it never changed the recipe. It just happened to be low carb all along (3.2 g per 12 oz., vs. 12 g for the typical beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Frenzy | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...thing scientists do know is that much of the yummy stuff in low-carb diets--think filet mignon with bearnaise sauce--comes loaded with artery-clogging saturated fats. Low-carb mania has not upended the scientific consensus that saturated fats are the enemy: a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are They Selling Us Baloney? | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...Queer Eye: the car-and-bike makeover show. Discovery Channel's American Chopper, MTV's Pimp My Ride and several others turn junkers into sleek street machines and motorcycles into works of art, and in the process tell us how people (mostly men) express and define themselves through their stuff. They're Queer Eye, the shop-class version: the Gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Wheels, My Self | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...from how an item is promoted to how much shelf space it gets to how much of it is sold. These allowances have little to do with consumers and add complexity to operations. Yet the industry has relied on them for profits--instead of, say, finding and selling the stuff that shoppers really want. Grocery manufacturers, who have leaned on the allowance system to help launch new products and unload unpopular ones, were forced to shift gears because Wal-Mart forgoes all allowances and simply negotiates--famously and ferociously--for a lower total price, or dead net cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supermarket Smackdown | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...diamonds have gone mass market, what about glamour, that mysterious quality that used to cling to the rocks and the fortunate few who wore them? Glamour once was an elusive quality embodied by aristocratic goddesses like Grace Kelly and Princess Diana. The secret to their appeal? The usual stuff--beauty, money, star-crossed romance--plus mystery, strong personal style and scarcity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're All Glamorous! | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

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