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Sprinkle Crystals on Your Food and Lose Weight
Is it just me, or are diet aids getting more and more weird? We've had chocolate you inhale. And now, the latest upcoming craze is crystals. Tiny crystals that you sprinkle on your food. Doesn't sound too appetising, does...
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Using Cold Water to Lose Weight
Take a curious ex-NASA scientist and a forward-thinking pop culture author, and the result may be a revolutionary (and perhaps a bit uncomfortable) weight loss method. Using the laws of thermodynamics, Ray Cronise has hypothesized that strategic exposure to...
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The Twinkie Diet: Lose Weight By Eating Junk Food
It's been dubbed "the Twinkie diet" by the media: Mark Haub, a professor in Kansas State University's Department of Human Nutrition, has been surviving on junk food for the past month. And, he's lost weight....
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Lady Gaga's Dangerous Diet
It's been a bad couple of weeks for celebrities whose diets almost killed them. Lady Gaga's former tour manager David Ciemny claims that she was hospitalized 6 times in 2009 - proposing that extreme dieting was the culprit....
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Celebrity Weight Loss: What They Are Doing to Get Lean
It's been a particularly busy week for celebrity weight issues. Here are 5 current celebrity weight loss/diet stories, and what we "regular" folk can learn from them! Kris Jenkins Kris Jenkins, the New York Jets' nose tackle, has dropped...
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Diet Guard: The Snacking Savior?
Welcome to "Money Making 101". Your assignment today class is to brainstorm and come up with a weight loss product that will change peoples lives........ No wait, forget that, just come up with a good marketing plan and use a...
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Weight Loss Bracelet: Would You Use One?
The latest in low tech weight loss gadgetry is the "A-Wrist-A-Trac", a set of color-coded, beaded bracelets that represents food groups. We'll take a look at how this works and speculate as to whether the idea will catch on....
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Dumbest Diet Advice Ever?
I've become somewhat unfazed about what celebrities eat, how they workout and how they get back to their size 1 jeans 3 weeks after giving birth. There is one name, though that appears to have become synonymous with stupid...
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The Risks of Very Low Calorie Diets
Some diets promise extraordinarily fast weight loss - achieved by cutting calorie intake to (dangerously) low levels. If you're ever tempted to follow a Very Low Calorie diet, make sure you know the facts first....
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Sugar Can Help Prevent Overeating
Here's a useful "diet dodge": Enjoy an ice cream shortly before lunch - it will prevent overeating at lunchtime. Good advice? Am I serious?...
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The Hawaii Chair
This has to be one of the stupidest and most hilarious workout devices invented. The Hawaii Chair claims it will provide a "complete fat burning aerobic workout". I swear the people in the infomercial are struggling to keep a...
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Beer as a Post Workout Drink
Professor Manuel Garzon, of Granada University in Spain has decided that beer is better for post-workout hydration than plain water. You're probably saying, "Hunh?" Professor Garzon believes that the stuff found in beer - the salts, sugars, and bubbles -...
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The Fat Jiggling Machine - Legacy of Dr. Kellogg
Found on eBay: A vintage exercise device that can... well, uh... I don't know. Can you figure it out? It seems even the proud new owner has no idea. He told me, "I got it at this junk shop in...
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Corsets: Because Every Woman Has a Figure Problem
The quotes from these vintage ads (from the 1940s) proclaim: "Every woman has a figure problem!" These old-fashioned ads (from Corsietere) show great similarities to today's marketing mix. This advertising brainwashing (complete with ludicrous before and after images) assured women...
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Lipo-Dissolve: Can Injections Really Melt Fat?
Lipo Dissolve involves injecting a cocktail of substances into subcutaneous fat deposits - in the hope of "dissolving" the fat tissue. Marketed as a safer and less invasive alternative to liposuction, proponents say lipo-dissolve is useful for treating small...
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New Diet Pill: The Expanding Blob
Wired Magazine reports on a new diet pill - a pill that expands into a gelatinous blob the "size of a tennis ball" after swallowing. Sound appetizing?...
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Diet Water
From the strange-products-from-japan department comes Diet Water... the perfect weight loss beverage. I wondered if this picture was a photoshop job - until I found another Japanese "Diet Water" product....
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Vintage Weight Loss: Sanitized Tapeworms
In the early 1900s a "nutrient absorption" product appeared. Call it an early version of Xenical... "No diet, no baths, no exercise. FAT - the enemy that is shortening your life - BANISHED. How? With sanitized tapeworms - jar-packed" No...
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Adderall as a Weight Loss Drug
Adderall is an amphetamine used to treat ADD/ADHD. Like many pharmaceutical medications, some of the side effects include loss of appetite and weight loss (particularly in adolescents). A CNN story has highlighted the ethical concerns surrounding a doctors decision...
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The Weight Loss Wisdom of Celebrities
Governments can spend millions trying to sell you their nutritional guidelines. However a single comment from a celebrity is enough to change the eating habits of thousands. Have a look at the "wisdom" from these celebrities:...
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The Beer Drinkers Diet
The majority of Americans drink alcoholic beverages, but many may give up this habit when on a diet - too many empty calories. But one enterprising individual appears to have seen the gap in the market and created the...
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Food Diary of a Fashion Model
New York Magazine has listed the 7-day food diaries of four people in the fashion industry; two models, fashion editor, and producer. Here are a few examples (enlightening to say the least):...
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The Oxo Diet
A British man has lost over 200 pounds by swapping pasties for bowls of Oxo broth. Oxo cubes are small blocks of stock that can be dropped into soups and stews.He swapped pasties for bowls of Oxo broth every breakfast,...
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The Maple Syrup Diet Fad
Celebrity + weight loss + unusual product = instant fad. Beyoncé Knowles claims she lost 20 pounds by consuming a concoction made up of maple syrup, lemon juice, water and cayenne pepper. Of course it's not just any maple syrup...
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The Ayds Diet Pill
Thanks to the proliferation of Internet video a number of commercials from the early 1980s have made a reappearance - one of which is for the unfortunately named "AYDS". The AYDS diet pill is neither a hoax or an urban...
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