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1. Victorian ghost costume.

2. From a post by Seth Roberts on meat-only diets:

Sure, some cravings reflect nutrient deficiencies. (Not all cravings: An alcoholic craves alcohol.) But in the cases I know about, there is an obvious or semi-obvious connection between the craving and the deficiency. For example, people who chew too much ice (pagophagia) crave ice to chew. They are iron-deficient. Eating iron eliminates the pagophagia. Long ago, a craving to eat something crunchy would have led you to eat bones. Bone marrow is high in iron.

3. SDF-1 fan art/wallpaper.

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Diet aid

Fridge watchman via.

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1. Hugh Jackman is supposed to bulk up even more for The Wolverine:

GB: Are you going to have to go back to that intense diet, eating whole chickens so you can get that muscle mass back up?

HJ: I’m on it right now, mate, already doing it. It’s 6,000 calories a day, it’s rough.

GB: How much you weighing?

HJ: Right now, I’m at 210.

GB: Wow, so you’re going to be bigger this time? Last time, you looked about, what, 190?

HJ: Yeah, right, I was 190, something like that. I don’t know how much I want to give away about it, but Darren said with the last one, ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.”

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2. "Kids Sail Free on Seven-Night Alaska Cruises Aboard the Disney Wonder."

3. Tyler Weeks:

Weight loss advice is only good if someone listens to it. If you tell people they can't have pizza, they'll ignore you and keep living "fat and happy."

I'm telling you, I'm going to start a movement in this country: eat the foods you want, just less, and move around. You'll be healthy and happy as a clam.

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Fake butter packets

Mudra planted fake butter packets to promote Nutralite.

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1. Former Next Iron Chef competitor Nate Appleman is currently making burritos at a Chipotle in New York (so he can learn and eventually improve the business). Via.

2. Gizmodo reviews the new Chrome OS laptop. TechCrunch, too. (Please send me one Google, I promise to write more posts and serve more Adsense ads.)

3. This actually works really well for me - - "People who imagined eating an indulgent snack ate 50 percent less of the real thing when given the chance."

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1. The Fifth Element pin-up. (click on the image)

2. Man goes on Twinkie diet and loses weight (because he watched calories):

while 2/3 of his total intake came from junk food the professor was also eating vegetables every day, took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. He also cut out meat, whole grains and fruit.

3. "British special forces are parachuting into Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan with dogs strapped to them, then using the dogs—with cameras attached to their heads—to scout the surrounding area."

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1. Megan McArdle:

But experiments with students and prisoners who deliberately set out to gain weight show that appetite decreases, and metabolism increases, if people consistently overeat. That's why most of us stay in a relatively stable band, rather than seeing our weight fluctuate wildly. Gina Kolata argues that most people have a pretty narrow band of weight that their bodies are comfortable in--about 10-30 pounds. Stay at the low end, and you'll feel a bit hungry; get to the high end, and you may lose some of your interest in food. But it's actually very hard to bust out of that band on either side.

2. Monstrous cake.

3. Comment and win The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!.

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