The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets

People will do almost anything to lose weight. While the most logical, sustainable means of doing so hasn’t really changed—eat less and exercise—every day it seems there are a host of new and outlandish methods to lose those love handles. Here are a few of my favorites

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What Does Donald Rumsfeld Have To Do With My Diet Soda? Why Should I Care?

Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame.

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What Does Donald Rumsfeld Have To Do With My Diet Soda? Why Should I Care?

Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame.

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Low-protein diet might reduce cancer risk

Researchers studying a group of vegetarians who'd maintained a diet relatively low in protein and calories found that they had lower blood levels of several hormones and other substances that have been tied to certain cancers.

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'Diet Coke Plus' - a Diet Coke with vitamins and minerals coming Spring '07

"Coca-Cola plans to launch a new version of Diet Coke in 2007 fortified with vitamins and minerals, according to a report published Friday. 'Diet Coke Plus,' slated for a spring launch, will be the first nutrient-enhanced carbonated soda to be offered by a major brand, said Beverage Digest."

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Hack Your Metabolism

Need to get your metabolism going? Personal trainer and blogger Lauren proposes that you can bolster your metabolism by eating enough (not too little, like most people who diet), eating more...

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12 Cool Things to Do with Coca Cola

Coca Cola (the real one) is not only great to drink, it also has many uses around the home. This list of uses was tested on ordinary, original Coca Cola, not the diet kind, or any of the variations there are available.

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No sex please, Madonna - I'm on the Cookie Diet

Madonna has revealed that her attempts to seduce husband Guy Ritchie were once defeated – by biscuits. The pop icon – who last week gushed about her "incredible" love life – says her film director husband went off sex while trying to lose weight on Hollywood's latest craze, the Cookie Diet.

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Men who eat too many eggs die early

Middle-aged men who ate seven or more eggs a week had a higher risk of earlier death, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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Cops Bust a (Root) Beer Kegger Party

When his friends got suspended from school sports because of photos showing them drinking from red cups, Dustin Zebro decided to mount a protest of sorts: he invited scores of kids to a kegger party, which got busted by the cops. But the kids got the last laugh, and here’s why:

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From Lab to Lunch: Chemicals They Call Food

... many of which I hadn’t seen since working in a lab, was still disconcerting. In fact, some of the chemicals were the same ones that drove me out of the lab. (You can only read “extreme neurotoxin” and “mutagenic” so many times before pondering a career change.). What were they doing in my chips?

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Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests. The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.

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The world's weirdest store-bought alcoholic beverages

Here's the scenario: Two brothers engage in 'liquor store archeology,' in which they compete to find the most obscure liquors and liqueurs. The winners thus far? Peanut whiskey, creme of violet, and an Austrian liqueur made from the fruit of stone pines.

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8 Healthy Reasons To Drink Beer

Fighting many of the diseases related to aging may be as simple as raising a glass.

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Ads vs Reality

What we think we buy, and what we really get!

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Slow Motion Tomato in a Blender

If we were all tomatoes this would be difficult to watch.

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The Worst Places for Your Health

Store owners aren't the only ones concerned with finding the perfect spot in which to situate their stuff. Researchers in a wide variety of fields know that how you organize your environment--from where you stand in fitness class to the place you choose to store your meds--has a surprising effect on everything from your weight to staying well

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Woman Conducts Own Aspertame Study With Pet Rats (+PICS)

I did my aspartame experiment because my family was addicted to diet soda. After researching the effects of aspartame, I strongly believed the artificial sweetener might one day lead to their illness and even early death. I was convinced I would see tumors and possibly other harmful effects to convince my family and friends to avoid aspartame.

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Oldest Woman Alive (120) says - I eat, drink & Take Showers

A woman has declared herself the oldest living person after her birth certificate was uncovered, showing she is 120. Mariam Amash rises every morning at 5am, walks unaided, and attributes her longevity to a diet rich in vegetables. "I eat, I drink, and I take showers. I hope to keep going for another 10 years," she said.

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Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad

We’ve all heard the figures. We know that meat production uses significantly more land and fossil fuel resources than a vegetarian diet. But, then, why on earth is it cheaper to eat meat than fresh fruit and vegetables?

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Banned Mentos & Diet Coke Video

This video way banned by The Mentos Geyser Video Contest. It waw called objectionable and encouraging potentially dangerous activity. So what is it? A guy chugs a 2 Liter of Diet Coke and then eats a hand full of Mentos. Ouch.

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Wine diet

This diet is simple but very effective.
You can lose about 11lb of weight for 5 days.

To keep this diet you need 5 big apples, 5 tomatoes, 5 cucumbers, 2 lb of non-fat curd, 5 hard-boiled eggs and the bottle of red wine.
Diet lasts for 5 days.

Well, you should eat these products every day in the next order:
Morning – an egg and a tomatoIn two hours – an apple
In two hours – some curd and one cucumber
In three hours – a glass of wine.
You are welcome! Carol

Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

A new diet pill available over the counter in the US promises "safe, effective weight loss". It also promises horrible incontinence. Seriously. Right there on the drug company website. They promise that you'll crap your pants uncontrollably. And they're still selling millions of these pills to eager customers.

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Vegan Parents Starve Baby to Death on Soy Milk/Apple Juice Diet

Amazing. And sad."Vegan parents guilty in infant murder 6-week-old died of starvation after being fed diet of soy milk, apple juice"

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Why fast foods are bad, even in moderation

Monkeys fed a diet rich in trans-fats – commonly found in fast foods – grew bigger bellies than those fed a diet rich in unsaturated fats, but containing the same overall number of calories. They also developed signs of insulin resistance, which is an early indicator of diabetes.

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Artificial sweetener cleared of cancer link

Well it's about time someone actually got down and tried to find out if all these diet sodas are bad for us. New research shows that aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in diet sodas, aren't so bad after all.

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Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

A new diet pill available over the counter in the US promises "safe, effective weight loss". It also promises horrible incontinence. Seriously. Right there on the drug company website. They promise that you'll crap your pants uncontrollably. And they're still selling millions of these pills to eager customers.

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14 "Superfoods" that Everyone Needs to Stay Alive and Healthy

"You'll hear about all these special diets for special health needs, but really, the same diet and the same lifestyle choices prevent the same diseases. You don't need 20 different preventive modalities -- just one really good diet, which should be founded on these Superfoods:" (I sill stand by my diet of Mountain Dew and Ice Cream Sandwiches.)

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Vegetarian Diet: How to get the best nutrition?

A well-planned vegetarian diet is a healthy way to meet your nutritional needs. Find out what you need to know about a plant-based diet.

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A 12-Step Program to Eating Healthier Than Ever Before

What's wrong with most diet plans, and how to make healthy changes with the minimum of pain.

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The Chernobyl diet

Stefan Gates travels to Chernobyl in Ukraine and meets people who live and eat in the "radioactive zone". It turns out that the Chernobyl "Zone of Alienation" is home to several hundred mainly elderly people living illegally in the area, and their attitude to the risks of radiation is very different. They returned to their homes soon after...

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Vegan diet leads to constant weight loss...

In what is surely going to be the next new fad diet, vegetarian diets have been shown to lead to constant weight loss, with or without exercise. So long Atkins, hello Boca Burgers.

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