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Independence Day Will Be Hot and Miserable – Food and Drinks To Cool Us Off
This Independence Day promises to be one of the hottest in recent memory. Records will be met and set if not shattered. So how do you cool off in this heat?
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Let Kids Eat Candy So They’ll Lose Weight? Not As Crazy As It Sounds
Well, here’s a twist in the battle to curb childhood obesity.
A new study has found that kids who eat candy tend to weigh less than children who don’t.
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Red White and Blue Recipes: How to Plan a Tasty Fourth of July
Our founding fathers weren’t messing around when they decided on red, white and blue. When it comes to planning a Fourth of July menu, neither should you. Three colors are more than enough to plan a five-star meal.
Below, check out some delicious recipes to help you celebrate our nation’s birthday in style.
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Popsicles Shaped Like Marilyn Monroe, Darth Vader and Other Famous Faces
The double popsicle? Tired. Gourmet popsicles? So last summer. Right now, we’re all about this new line of incredibly detailed, pop culture-themed popsicles from Russian ad agency Stoyn, depicting ten iconic cultural figures from throughout the world — everyone from Che Guevara to Marilyn Monroe to Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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Duh! Potato Chips Will Make You Fat and Disgusting
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out eating potato chips will cause you to pack on the pounds.
Or maybe it does.
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Deep Fried Kool-Aid and Other Battered Delights
If there’s one knock against Kool-Aid, it’s that it’s not fattening enough. Sure those sugars are going to turn into fat at some point, but what if you need a quicker fix? Who has time to sit around all day waiting for their metabolism to convert that excess glycogen to fatty acids? Enter deep-fried Kool-Aid, the newest oil-injected creation from the reigning king of fair food, “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian that’s a major web obsession right now.
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Waitress Discovers Ancestors’ Photo on Wall of Restaurant
The biscuits are warm at Cracker Barrel, but the fuzzy feelings you can get are even warmer.
A woman who works at one of the chain’s restaurants in Owensboro, Kentucky recently discovered a long lost photo of her great-great-great grandmother on the wall of the eatery, according to a report from area radio station WBKR.
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Yoplait Pulls Commercial Amidst Eating Disorder Complaints [VIDEO]
A group that encourages healthy eating is saying “no way” to Yoplait.
The National Eating Disorders Association has applauded the yogurt-maker for its decision to pull one of its commercials, out of claims that it depicts unrealistic images and expectations of being skinny.
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Japanese Scientists Use Human Waste to Create Meat [VIDEO]
If you weren’t vegetarian before, perhaps it’s time to make the switch. Scientists in Japan have now created a way to synthesize “beef steaks” from human feces. The discovery was made after a Tokyo sewage plant approached scientists, asking them if they could figure out a way to utilize all the sewage sludge lying around.
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‘Baconized’ Manicotti Recipe Clocks in at 3,000 Calories [VIDEO]
Epic Meal Time, a group of YouTubers notorious for cooking comically high-calorie food, have taken cheese-filled pasta to new artery-clogging heights.
In an episode dubbed “Masta Pasta,” a hacked manicotti dish features a tasty bacon weave, ”trifecta liquor meat sauce” and multiple types of ravioli.
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Apples Increase Muscle Tone and Reduce Fat: Study
Will an apple a day actually make you a big hit on the beach?
It's possible, as new research suggests that ursolic acid, which is found in abundance in an apple's peal, builds muscles while reducing fat.
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Modified Dairy Cows Produce Human Milk in China
Scientists in China have genetically modified a batch of cows so that they can now produce human breast milk opposed to regular cow's milk. The researchers at the Agricultural University in Beijing did so by injecting the human gene that makes milk into 300 bovine embryos.