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Although the U.S. is the fourth largest producer in the world, most Americans are still uncomfortable with wine. The nation ranks No. 34 internationally in terms of per capita consumption. The French, No. 2, drink more than six times as much, according to Adams Beverage Group, an industry research group. (Natives of tiny Luxembourg top the list.) MacNeil, 50, who has been writing about wine for 25 years, says the U.S. is still developing its own approach to wine. "We aren't France, with its cafés where you hang out and sip wine. Nor do we like the rather...
...herself through high school in Reno, Nev., by waiting tables in a coffee shop and cleaning hotel rooms on weekends. At 16 she began having a glass of cheap wine with dinner every night, an escape from her daily struggle to survive. "When you have no money, food and drink become an inordinate pleasure," she says. In 1972 she drove across the country to New York City with $6 in her pocket "to become a writer...
...special challenge. Campral, the first new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in almost a decade for helping drinkers remain abstinent, could help. Taken as part of an addiction-treatment program that includes psychosocial support, Campral helped 16% to 38% of alcoholics who had already stopped drinking avoid imbibing for up to four months. Unlike current abstinence aids, which either dampen the alcohol high or make people violently ill if they drink, Campral works by restoring nerve activity in the brain's pleasure center that is altered by overindulgence in alcohol. Campral's makers expect...
...what can we do about it? A good place to start is to cut back on sugary sodas and fruit drinks. A separate study reported that women who drank less than one sweetened beverage a month not only were thinner but also had a 40% smaller risk of developing diabetes than women who had at least one sugary drink every...
...have earned ourselves some huge problems. We are heavier than we have ever been, with 65% either overweight or obeseincluding 15% of kids. We're lazy too. Only 24% of us exercise vigorously at least three times a week. We smoke too much (22% of adults still light up), drink too much, and with our fetish for fast and processed foods, we're practically pickling ourselves with salt...