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Milkshaking News

The FDA is changing the nomenclature of the different categories of milk, to go into effect between now and January.

* Skim milk may call itself fat-free and carry an American Heart Assn. symbol.

* 1% low-fat milk, if it chooses, may call itself just plain low-fat.

* 2% low-fat will no longer be allowed to call itself low-fat; from now on, it’ll be reduced fat.

Whole milk, unchanged at 3.2%, will still be called milk.

Feeding Your Face

A model named Diane Irons has been promoting her book “The World’s Best-Kept Beauty Secrets” (Sourcebooks, 1997) on all the talk shows. No business of ours in the Food section, perhaps, except that so many of the models’ secrets she discloses are oddball uses of food, such as rubbing cellulite with coffee grounds and then massaging it with oil, grapefruit juice and thyme. And the skin nourishers and face masks--mashed lentils, tomatoes, peaches and brandy, mayonnaise! There are ven recipes. We’re now in a territorial dispute with Fashion.