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Eureka! No more diet books. Cancel your gym membership. Pour out the protein shakes. We’ve found the diet miracle!

Get some lab rats, scramble their livers, feed them fatty foods and they won’t gain a pound, even without exercise.

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Are you putting off getting started on a healthy diet? Are you forever waiting until Monday, until all the stars are aligned, or until there are five weekends in the month?

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From Diet Blog Share:

Today is my third day on the Grapefruit Diet and I’ve lost one pound so far! Hopefully I will be able to lose at least 10 pounds in 12 days.

I’m being very strict on this diet, and pray that things will turn out good for me. I will weigh myself again on June 20th, 12 days from my starting date.

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I was completely shocked and horrified when I came across an article recently in BBC News, stating some parents are attributing their children’s dietary foibles to an eating disorder, rather than simply bad behavior.

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Have sensible people been wrong all this time about crash diets? Could it be that the extreme regimens Hollywood stars follow are actually healthy, effective and long lasting?

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Chocolate eaters down under have noticed something strange is happening with their chocolate bars – they’ve shrunk. Mars Bars have downsized by 11% and Cadbury chocolate bars have gone from 250g to 200g (20% drop).

The one thing that hasn’t dropped is price.

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A study of 3,000 European men has indicated that vitamin D helps to keep us mentally agile in later life.

The research was carried out by David Lee and colleagues at the University of Manchester in the UK, and published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

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From Diet Blog Share:

I just watched Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories lecture in Berkeley, and he seems so convinced and convincing about what he believes.

So, is there a flaw in his argument? And if “yes” what is it?

I’ve been on Weight Watchers in the past, and I know it works. But they preach the complete opposite of what Taubes quotes as scientifically proven.

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Without a doubt the SAME Caf is a unique concept rarely heard of in today’s society. In fact, it’s the only caf (as far as I know) having no prices on the menu, and were customers simply pay what they can afford for the food.

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Sports.frThe Los Angeles Lakers are licking their chops in anticipation of the Orlando Magic coming to town for this year’s NBA Finals, especially power forward Lamar Odom – but Lamar’s probably busy picking bits of Gummy bears out of his teeth!

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