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...think your grocery bags have gotten a little lighter lately, you might be right. Manufacturers are quietly trimming the content of their packaged products--from yogurt and ice cream to laundry detergent and diapers--and often they aren't dropping prices to match. Called a "weight out" in industry parlance, product downsizing lets companies maintain profit margins without raising prices. Faced with a flagging economy and increasingly finicky, cost-conscious consumers, manufacturers have been using this decades-old tactic more aggressively in the past year...
...advocacy website. Most shoppers never notice a couple of ounces missing from a can of soup or a few feet gone from a roll of paper towels--which is what manufacturers are counting on. "Consumers really don't have in their minds that they have to check the net weight or net count every time they buy something," says Dworsky. "It's the perfect consumer scam--when consumers don't know they've been taken...
...some level, most of us figure the low-carb message has to be too good to be true. Certainly that's what we've heard over and over from the medical and nutritional establishments, which still maintain that the healthiest way to lose weight is to adopt a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. But Atkins, who died earlier this year after a fall, may yet get the last laugh. Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that there may be more health benefits to a low-carb diet than mainstream researchers had previously thought possible...
...tell people what they want to hear. Witness the continuing popularity of the Atkins diet, the granddaddy of nearly all the low-carbohydrate, high-protein regimens clamoring to banish your love handles. Here's a plan that promises you can eat pork rinds and Brie and still lose weight. Dr. Robert Atkins' books have sold some 15 million copies over the past 30 years, and his potential audience just keeps growing. More than 60% of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the latest estimates...
...results are preliminary but nevertheless intriguing. In both studies, test subjects who followed a low-carb diet lost at least twice as much weight as those on a conventional high-carb, low-fat diet after six months. Even at that, the average weight loss for the low-carb dieters, all of whom were obese, was a modest 13 lbs. in the first NEJM study and 15 lbs. in the second. Forty percent of the subjects dropped out of the experiments before completing them. Both studies also showed that the Atkins-style diet boosted the levels of high-density lipoprotein...