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Posted Le Whif: Chocolate You Inhale to Diet Blog
Le Whif Sick of all those chocolate candies ruining your figure? Tired of your morning coffee making you pee a thousand times? Well good news. Your answer has arrived! Introducing "Le Whif," a chocolate or coffee flavored treat you don't eat, you inhale. Sacrebleu!...
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Posted Crazy Work Schedules May Increase Irritable Bowel Risk to Diet Blog
About.com A lot of people work around the clock. It spans the workforce, from doctors and police officers, to cab drivers and grocery clerks. You might work all day, other times through the night, and sometimes both in the same week. But, now researchers are saying this kind of work irregularity might mess up your pooping schedule....
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Posted Domino's Pizza Scores Big Profits With Recipe Change to Diet Blog
Fat Wallet Looks like Domino's new advertising strategy paid off - no pun intended - the maker of non-pizza more than doubled its fourth quarter profits. Sorry, unless it's made in New York by a big Italian guy named Gino, it's not really pizza! But Michigan-based Domino's Pizza is now raking in the cash since addressing customer complaints and changing...
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Posted Starbucks Tests Out a 31 Ounce Drink to Diet Blog
Photobucket: eva_92 To put that into perspective, it's just about four cups of coffee. Almost a liter. That'll get you wired, to say the least. So, what is Starbucks going to call this 31 ounce monstrosity? Since they're known for all those catchy names, it's the "Jitter-Maker." No, not really. It's named the "Trenta," after the Italian word for 30....
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Posted Doctors Are Calling For "Choke Proof" Hotdogs to Diet Blog
YouTube: weezllane Hotdogs are a witch's brew - hoof of cow, eye of rat, filler of unknown origin - extruded into a wiener, and put into a bun. Condiments optional. They're gross. No one REALLY knows what's in hotdogs. But at every barbecue, carnival, and Fourth of July, you'll find hotdogs. And, kids love them. That's the problem. Doctors insist...
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Posted "My Love Handles Saved My life" Says Shooting Victim to Diet Blog
Crime Scene KC Superman stops bullets with his burly chest. Magneto catches them mid-air and hurls them back at you. But all this lady needs is her belly. Samantha Lynn Frazier was vacationing in Atlantic City, New Jersey - her first mistake - when she was shot outside a bar at 1:30AM on Saturday. So, how did the Florida resident...
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Posted "Sink the Bismarck" 41% ABV Beer to Diet Blog
BBC News Scottish brewery BrewDog - awesome name - has reclaimed the "world's strongest beer." They topped their German rival Schorschbrau, with a new 41% ABV beer they call "Sink the Bismark." Schorschbrau sells a paltry 40% brew. BrewDog also makes a beer named Tactical Nuclear Penguin, which is "only" 32% alcohol by volume. Ha, wimp!...
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Posted Beer Can Make Your Bones Strong to Diet Blog
dyet Good news for booze hounds. Downing pint after pint might be good for you - sort of. Hops or pale barley malts have "dietary silicon," which promotes bone health apparently. Dietary silicon is found in a lot of foods, mostly fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. And, obviously beer is made from grains....
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Posted Should the First Lady Have Talked About Her Kids' Weight? to Diet Blog
Tim Sloan "Short and fat doesn't look good." This what my father used to tell me. As a "husky" kid, those were, uh, comforting words. Lucky for me, he didn't say that stuff in public, which was good - I guess. But, the First Lady is getting some heat for mentioning her daughters' little weight problem....
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Posted Omega-3's Help Fight Mouth Bacteria to Diet Blog
irtc.org My friend's breath can clear a room. But, it's hard to tell someone their mouth smells like a sewer, so jamming their trap shut with a fistful of sardines might be more polite. Researchers claim eating omega-3 fatty acids, like those found in walnuts and seafood, help reduce oral pathogens and mouth bacteria....
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Posted Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk of First Heart Attack to Diet Blog
Ediets That first heart attack has got to be a shocker. You're at the bar watching the game, dipping Buffalo wings into blue cheese and - BAM! You're on the floor grabbing your chest and yelling for your drunken buddies to call 911. If only you'd been popping olives instead of jalapeño poppers. Because a new study shows the Mediterranean...
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Posted Recession Making Americans Thirst for Cheaper Booze to Diet Blog
Sasidhar Blog Go to a club in New York City and order a drink - no, not a Shirley Temple - a real drink. I'm talking hooch, ice, and a mixer. Go on, try it. But, don't be shocked if that cocktail costs you more than $10, plus tip. That's why today, amidst a major U.S. recession, a lot of...
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Posted Stress Hormones May Fuel Alcohol Addiction to Diet Blog
Boozingear.com Alcohol is bipolar. It can be fun and high society, or sleazing and seedy. Probably why we all like it so much--without it I'd never have a girlfriend! But, a big reason people drink is to relieve stress. You've seen it in the movies, the lonely detective pours a scotch after a rough day on the beat. And, there...
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Posted First Lady Michelle Obama Joins the Fight Against Obesity to Diet Blog
EatTheView Like many second-in-commands before her (let's be honest, the First Wife is REALLY the next in power), current First Lady Michelle Obama has championed causes close to her heart. Most hyped was her "first garden," the Whitehouse's organic backyard garden, and her work encouraging Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. And now, Michelle wants to help put an...
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Posted New York City Aims to Cut Salt Intake to Diet Blog
Unfrogged In a city with hotdog carts on every street corner, cutting salt is going to be a lot of work. Good thing New York City never sleeps. Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced an initiative to cut salt intake to help lower the city's high blood pressure. Every year, 23,000 New Yorkers drop dead due to hypertension leading...
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Posted Eating Junk Food Will Spoil Your Mood to Diet Blog
list of the day I like comfort food. You like comfort food. It's great medicine! You feel rotten, so you eat a bunch of rotten food, and you feel better. Magic! Yeah, I know, it's short-lived, but General Tso's Chicken, or Haagen Dazs ice cream, or an entire sleeve of Oreos, sure helps get the sad out. But eating all...
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Posted Buying Candy At the Pet Store Will Make You Fat to Diet Blog
Larry Fire I was at PetSmart a week ago - browsing the ferrets, kittens, and tree frogs - and up front by the registers were potato chips, candy, and soda. Now, I've never tried feeding my leopard gecko a Kit Kat, instead of meal worms and crickets, but she's pretty ditsy, so she might eat it. It turns out that...
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Posted Eat Like The King - Not Really! to Diet Blog
1440 Wall Street "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog" Elvis, was super cool. Big fat, sweaty, jumpsuit wearing, pseudo karate kicking Elvis, is just embarrassing. However, The King's diet was the biggest travesty of them all. I see this sort of food in my nightmares--bacon, sausage, and mayo, oh my! It would have been Elvis' 75th birthday on January...
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Posted Calories on Menus Really Do Help People Eat Less to Diet Blog
Fur Face Boy New York City made it a law in 2008; all chain restaurants are required to display calorie content on their menus, period. But, will showing people that a Big Mac has a billion calories really make a difference? They already know it's garbage! And they still eat it. Turns out, it does! A new study found menus...
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Posted Kids Who Choose Their Veggies Won't Necessarily Eat More to Diet Blog
YouTube: TrekTredHead I'm not a parent, but I want to hit a kid now! I guess children really are allergic to vegetables. Its cliché, the family sits down for dinner, mom fills Junior's plate, and he eats everything else, but pushes his broccoli around. What if it were carrots instead? Maybe then he'd eat it. How about giving your kid...
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Posted Let's Try a Soda Tax to Slow Obesity to Diet Blog
Film Dope In New York City, cigarettes can top $9 a pack. Why? Taxes. You can't mandate not smoking, but you can make it harder for people to smoke. And sure, government rakes in the cash from it, but no doubt, it's a deterrent. If you can't afford to smoke, you probably won't. So, should we try it with sugary...
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Posted Germs Make Food Healthier to Diet Blog
HowardStern.com In my life, the "5 second rule" has saved countless M&M's, cookies, and various inside bits of sandwiches. Is it disgusting? Of course it is! Unless you're a dog or have some kooky fetish, there's no reason to eat off the floor. Okay, maybe grossing out girls -- that's funny! But now, experts suggest eating food exposed to germs...
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Posted Burger King's 7 Patty Windows 7 Whopper to Diet Blog
Electronista And they call us fat in America. Well, we are, but that's beside the point! No, your eyes don't deceive you--that's a 7 meat patty Burger King Whopper. So, why does it exist? To help promote a new computer operating system, duh! In October, Microsoft launched Windows 7, and to promote its release in Japan, they came up with...
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Posted University Says You're Too Fat to Graduate to Diet Blog
Lincoln University Military, law enforcement, lifeguards, and firemen, all have weight requirements. It's hard to protect and serve with "cankles" and cellulite. But to graduate college? Yes, college too. Lincoln University in Pennsylvania will not allow "fat" students to graduate until they have completed a course on fitness. Let the anger and outrage begin......
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Posted Are Fad Diets to Blame? to Diet Blog
unwir3d Fad diets come in many forms: South Beach, Nutrisystem, Atkins, raw food, Ornish, Genotype, Zone, and even The "Hallelujah" Diet. And every "diet" has its own gimmick: cooked food is dead food, carbohydrates are bad, eat based on your blood type, and the list goes on and on. It's confusing. What are we supposed to eat! That's why one...
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Posted McDonald's Robber Caught With a Paper Cup to Diet Blog
Rotten Tomatoes Between CSI, Law & Order, and The Wire, you'd think people would know better. If you have to commit a crime be, uh, smart about it. In Carey, North Carolina, some dumb-dumb wanted a job--err, wanted to rob--the local McDonald's, at least the gun in his pants said so. And he would have gotten away with it too,...
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Posted Guess How Much Food We Throw Away? to Diet Blog
Fast Company While millions of people don't have enough to eat, both in the United States and abroad, more and more Americans are wasting food. Hard to believe, since many of us are the size of elephants, but 40% of all food produced in the U.S. ends up in the trash. In spite economic woes and money troubles, a lot...
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Posted How Many Would Be Saved By Eating Less Salt? to Diet Blog
U.K. Telegraph Salt, a pinch here, a "bam" there, and food tastes better. It brings out the flavor, or so says my muumuu wearing grandmother. But it also raises blood pressure, which explains why she would go into a blind rage, and throw rocks at crows for eating her figs. And now, a new study confirms the heart risks of...
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Posted FDA Looking to Cork Alcoholic Energy Drinks to Diet Blog
The Wine Street Journal Did you even know they made this stuff? I didn't. To me, it ends with wine, liquor, beer, and nothing in between. Who mixes coffee and hooch! Apparently someone did. Drinks like Smirnoff Raw Tea, Sparks, and Wide Eye are alcoholic beverages with a shot of caffeine. But now the FDA has taken aim at these...
