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supposed to [just] get married,”
Grimes said. “But we try to ex
pose them to individuals who
have ventured out.”
Aside from hosting events to
help the community, Winder
hosts four annual etiquette
training dinners for A&M stu
dents.
“Basically the dinners are de
signed to teach students to feel
better in dining interviews,”
Winder said. “Companies
equate good etiquette to busi
ness competence, so if you do
The Rintastico Chronicles
BY J. GOLDFLUTE spy
HECTOR Y PEDRO
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Taste comes before health
to consumers, survey says
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
French fries might lower cho
lesterol if they are cooked in the
right kind of shortening, but
most consumers may never get
a chance to eat them.
The shortening, known as
Appetize, is one of a series of
healthier food products that
have struggled as public concern
about fat has declined in recent
years, even as obesity has
reached epidemic proportions.
“Elealth is not a primary driv
er in our food selection. You
must have taste first,” said
Robert Brown, who follows in
dustry trends for snack-food gi
ant Frito-Lay.
Food scientists gathered here
for their annual convention this
week have not given up the
search for their holy grail — a
healthy, tasty, affordable substi
tute for bad fats — but they are
scratching their heads over the
declining consumer interest.
Among supermarket shoppers
who said they are very concerned
about nutrition, only 46 percent
of consumers say they are wor
ried about the fat content, down
from 60 percent in 1996, ac
cording to a poll last year by the
Food Marketing Institute.
Olestra, a fat substitute devel
oped by Procter & Gamble Co.,
is one of the leading disappoint
ments. Sales of Frito-Lay’s
In marketing,
the bottom line
is taste.”
— K.C. Hayes
inventor of Appetize
Wow! potato chips, which are
made with olestra, dropped 36
percent in 1999, a year after they
were introduced.
Nabisco’s low-fat Snackwell
cookies also have been a disap
pointment, as was Benecol, a
cholesterol-lowering margarine.
Frito-Lay added fat to its baked
potato chips to improve the taste,
Brown said. Meanwhile, sales of
meat snacks, pork rinds and fat
laden energy bars are soaring.
“In marketing, the bottom
line is taste,” said K.C. Hayes, a
Brandeis University scientist and
one of the inventors of Appetize.
Fat affects not only the fla
vor, but also the color and tex
ture of foods.
Not all fat substitutes have
flopped. Half-and-half has been
made fat-free by substituting
corn syrup and removing water
from skim milk. In yogurt, tapio
ca starch is used as a fat substitute.
Fat has also been removed from
mayonnaise and salad dressing.
Appetize, which is marketed
by a spinoff of General Mills, is
a blend of corn oil and beef tal
low that has been stripped of its
natural cholesterol. Research
suggests its unique chemistry
may actually lower blood cho
lesterol in consumers because of
its interaction in the body.
It’s designed to replace the ar
tery-clogging shortenings, or
hydrogenated vegetable oils,
that are now widely used in the
restaurant and baking industries.
The trans fatty acids may be
worse for the heart than saturat-
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operation, and said Montesinos
would be tried “like any other
delinquent in our country.”
Montesinos was considered
the power behind former presi
dent Alberto Fujimori’s admin
istration. The Waisman report,
an investigation into alleged
corruption in Fujimori’s govern
ment, accused Montesinos of
heading an intricate web of
bribes, drug trafficking and arms
dealing. He was accused of tak
ing more than $265 million,
which now sit frozen in Swdss
and other foreign banks.
Montesinos also has been
charged with human rights
abuses, including running death
squads and ordering the torture
and execution of those who op
posed him.
Montesinos secretly filmed
meetings in his office — a col-
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ed fats, scientists say. The Food
and Drug Administration is pro
posing to require trans fats to be
listed on food labels.
The Mayo Clinic uses Appe
tize, which has been on the mar
ket for six years, in its employee
cafeterias and it also is in a few
university and department store
restaurants. But no fast major
fast-food chains have bought it.
Bill Norton, executive vice
president of Appetize-maker
Source Food Technology Inc.,
says it will probably never be any
thing more than a niche product.
The company is currently selling
about 5 million pounds a year, a
tiny fraction of the 6 billion
pound a year market for cooking
oils and shortening.
Part of the problem for prod
ucts like Appetize is consumer
confusion about shifting health
claims and research findings, say
food scientists. Consumers have
been warned for years to stay
away from saturated fats, such as
the beef tallow used in Appetize,
but now there are concerns that
the trans fats are worse.
not have good manners they
incide that with incompete:
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of Washington to becom
certified business etiquette
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more AIDS fund contributions
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European Union officials in
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same meeting, Powell de
scribed what he saw during a
visit to Africa last month.
“I was very candid,” Powell
said. “I said, ‘You’ve got to find
a way quickly to show your
commitment to this. The EU
has to give a lot more.’ ”
T he fund, kicked off with
$200 million by the United
States last month, now contains
$582 million. France and Britain,
fonner colonial powers in Africa,
offered $127 million and $100
million respectively, with the rest
coming from private entities such
as the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, which matched
Britain’s donation.
“That’s not a bad start but it is
nowhere near meeting the
need,” Powell said. “I also don’t
think we should just restrict it to
the big, affluent, former colonial
powers. We really need to en
gage everybody.”
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tribution, Powell admitted
scraping together the $200 mil
lion seed money was difficult.
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the 2003 budget, I’ll make a case
for finding more money and
adding more money,” he said.
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need at least $7 billion annually
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