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While it may be just starting to feel like spring outside, it's already time to plan your fall and holiday stories. Year after year, Ocean Spray offers a bounty of flavors and festivities to light up the season.

Lighten Up the Holidays - The holidays are typically an over-indulgent time of year. While many of your readers may be mindful of calories when they are eating, many may not realize that calories lurk in that one cup of Grandma's famous eggnog coming in at 300 calories or more. Let guests save those extra calories for other indulgences and serve up delicious "5-0 Cosmos," which have just 50 calories per serving, compared to the 150 found in a traditional Cosmopolitan. New Diet Ocean Spray Juice Drinks offer the calorie conscious a light, refreshing burst of flavor with just five little calories per 8 oz. serving.

Cranberries are "The Leader of the PAC" - Cranberry proanthocyanidins (or PACs) are condensed tannins, a type of plant flavonoid with antioxidant and other medicinal activities. Structured differently than those in other foods, cranberry PACs provide both antioxidant and anti-adhesion benefits. These unique PACs help prevent certain bacteria from sticking in the body helping to ward off urinary tract infections, stomach ulcers and gum disease. And, since cranberry PACs are also antioxidants, they may contribute to good health in a number of ways, and may help reduce the risk of disease in various parts of the body.

Bringing the Bog To You - Ocean Spray is taking the "Cranberry Experience" on the road in 2006. Once again Ocean Spray will kick off the holiday season with the Big Apple Bog in New York City's Rockefeller Center November 1-3. This educational and cultural experience, showcasing the taste, health and heritage of the cranberry will be shared with Americans across the country. Look for special invitations to our New York event, don some waders and experience the beauty of the cranberry harvest first hand. We hope to see you then!

No Place Like Ocean Spray for the Holidays - Ocean Spray has been a part of Americans' holiday traditions for the past 75 years, so who better to go to for holiday planning help? As an additional holiday resource to your readers, Ocean Spray's Plan-It Thanksgiving section of www.oceanspray.com (live in November) continues to offer everything you need for a festive holiday season: time-tested recipes, turkey tips, creative ideas for a well-dressed holiday table, cranberry crafts, as well as "Family Fun" sections for kids, and tips to guide you through pulling together a last-minute holiday feast.