How to keep the diet light during the holidays (Alamogordo Daily News) Joann Wardy knows how to savor and serve the foods of the holidays -- all with an eye on both festivity and health consciousness. Wardy doesn't use the "D" word-- dieting -- either, when planning her holiday meals and party foods.
DIET: Soda industry says school soft drink sales slump (Kansas City Star) It's not often that an industry brags when sales are down. But the American Beverage Association sounds almost proud when it declares in a report being released Thursday that the amount of non-diet soft drinks sold in the nation's schools dropped more than 24 percent between 2002 and 2004.