 37 Ways to Live a Healthy Lifestyle::It’s easy to live a healthy lifestyle when you have the right attitude and tools to keep you going. You don’t have to be rich or thin to have a healthy lifestyle, especially with these 37 tips, all of… [MORE] |
 Familiar Superfoods - Antioxidant-Rich Cherry Juice::A humble cherry is set to go where no fruit has gone before. Drinking a glass of cherry juice a day offers the same health benefits as eating 23 portions of fruit and vegetables.
Scientists have discovered… [MORE] |
 Raw Food Diets - Angela Stokes Sheds 50% of Weight With Raw Food::The Raw Food diet, which first gained exposure in the 90s, is hot again.
As thin women get thinner, many other women struggle to reach and maintain a healthy weight. Angela Stokes is half the size she… [MORE] |
 Sweet Treats for Geeks - 10 Nerd Cakes::Even geeks like to party. From nerdy birthdays to geeky weddings, this sweet selection of artistic confections showcases the best in dorky desserts.
This creative and amusing collection of crazy cakes… [MORE] |
 Calorie-Packed Cocktails - 10 Alcoholic Drinks to Avoid::Most of us wouldn't consider a Big Mac or a large order of French fries to be on any diet plan worth its salt, but we have no problem bellying up to the bar and ordering calorie-laden cocktails that are… [MORE] |
 Frosting Shots - Cutting Calories With Tiny Doses of Sugar::The latest calorie-crunching trend coming out of bakery shops is that of frosting shots. If you’re craving a sweet hit of baked goods but don’t want to partake in the calorie content of a whole cupcake,… [MORE] |
 Unusual Canned Foods - Bread in a Can::Bread in a can is now available in Japan. Reminiscent of world-renowned Spam, this canned bread features an easy-open airtight lid and is ideal for emergency sustenance.
The canned bread is available… [MORE] |
 Dessert Meat - The Hot Beef Sundae::Round cut steak, gravy, potatoes, cheese, garlic bread, and tomato. This sounds like a pretty good dinner, doesn’t it?
Now picture it all together not on a plate, but in a sundae dish. The steak and… [MORE] |
 Funky Bottled Tea - Bombilla Organics::I recently have the chance to sample the new Pure Tea line from Bombilla and I have to say… they are delicious! The Pure Teas come in oolong tea, white tea, green tea and green jasmine tea and they are… [MORE] |
 Science Of Bad Pizza Toppings - The Onion Research Project::The Domino Pizza Science video is a spoof science report from The Onion News. In it, scientists willingly eat everything. I'm uncertain about the garbage pizza topping mentioned in the report, but there… [MORE] |
 10 Unorthodox Wedding Cake Toppers::Who says a wedding cake has to be topped with the standard bride and groom standing right next to each other? In the age of alternative wedding vows, customized cakes and unorthodox wedding sites, there's… [MORE] |
 Edible Calorie-Free Paper - Slim Chips::Slim Chips, created by by Hafsteinn Juliusson, are flavored chips of edible paper. They contain no calories, and eating them is just like eating tasty air.
The Slim Chips come in organic flavors like… [MORE] |
 Food That Texts You When It Spoils - Mold Alerts::A few years back, a scientist developed food labels that told you when fruits and vegetables were ripe (which I still haven't seen at the grocery stores). Well, now a group of scientists at Manchester… [MORE] |
 Inventing Your Own Potato Chips - Walker's Flavour Contest::The Walkers Do Us A Flavour competition has gone crazy in the UK. The potato chip company hosted a contest to invent a new flavour. That could sound boring, but it's not.
The website is super simple,… [MORE] |
 Disgusting Deliciousness - Goulish Halloween Snacks::Here are some hauntingly delicious gory food ideas for Halloween. We are talking about food that is meant to look really vile, but actually tastes good. You can only get away with this in October, so you… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Energy Drinks - Chinese Deer Penis Wine::Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that deer penis, usually ingested while soaked in alcohol, is an effective remedy for athletic injuries.
In the lead-up to the Beijing Olympic games, however, Chinese… [MORE] |
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 Magnified Mystery Meats - Gross Edible Macro Photography::Put down that sandwich for this one. Is it a slug? Is it surgical waste? No, thanks to macro photography, it’s a close-up encounter with the innards of some of the processed meats that many of us eat on… [MORE] |
 Serving Human Dairy - Swiss Restaurant Offers Breast Milk::Hans Locher, the owner of Storchen Restaurant near the Winterthur resort in Switzerland stirred up quite a controversy when he placed ads in newspapers offering to pay for human breast milk. He offered… [MORE] |
 All-in-One Cutlery - The Light My Fire Spork::The Light My Fire Spork is an all-in-one cutlery combination that’s a bit nicer than the sporks we’re used to seeing. Instead of a utensil comprised of a spoon with fork tines, the Light My Fire Spork… [MORE] |
 Edible Typefaces - The Typolade Chocolate Font::Helvetica walks into a bar, bartender says, “We don’t serve your type--leave now, or I’ll call the serif.”
Typolade makes chocolate typefaces. If offered, always take the W - since it is the widest letter,… [MORE] |
 Bottled Natural Beauty - Nestle Glowelle Anti-Aging Drinks::Nestlé--a company better known for chocolate--has branched into nutricosmetics: products taken orally that benefit the skin. The company’s newly launched ‘Glowelle’ beverage is touted as beauty in a bottle.… [MORE] |
 Edible Mobile App Icons - iPhone Cupcakes::Nick and Danielle Bilton’s clever iPhone cupcakes took first prize at the Cupcake Design Competition on September 15. The design competition was a part of Ignite NYC. These images, as captured by Bre Pettis,… [MORE] |
 Michelin-Star Cooking Classes - The Kitchen at Parsons Green::It isn't every day that the average home cook gets to learn how to cook a week's worth of locally-sourced gourmet food from a prestigious chef who has multiple Michelin stars under his belt--unless, of… [MORE] |
 Small-Space Cooking Solutions - Kitchen Works in a Drawer::This Kitchen Works in a Drawer portable mini kitchen might not be sufficient for the likes of Bobby Flay or Mario Batali, but it’s perfect for small-space apartment dwellers for whom every spare inch is… [MORE] |
 Drive Through Shopping Cart Washes - The PureCart::We've heard about how dirty our telephones, keyboards, and bedsheets are, but how about your shopping cart? Seems they're not that clean either. And why should they be when little 5 year-old Johnny is… [MORE] |
 Marble Track Tables - Marbelous Designs::The restaurant that installs these tables will become the local hotspot for families. Entitled "Marbelous" and considered "functional woodcarvings", these tables would make waiting for dinner... well,… [MORE] |
 DIY Baking for Kids - Gourmet Cupcake & Ice Cream Sandwich Maker::Jakks Pacific Girl Gourmet Cupcake & Ice Cream Sandwich Makers are reminiscent of the days of old. “Days of old”, not as far as teaching girls that “a woman's place is in the kitchen” but rather good… [MORE] |
 The Moose Diet - Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent Endorse Wild Game::Sarah Palin loves moose burgers and Ted Nugent says wild game, like moose, is the perfect food. Sarah Palin was already enjoying moose meat as a teen, as pictured center at age 17. Sarah Palin is also… [MORE] |
 Post Pregnancy Fitness - 10 Celebrity Shape Ups::Dumping the poundage from carrying a future Lohan in your belly is becoming giving birth to a whole new career path. Personal trainers are shaping up the stars in record time after they pump out a baby.… [MORE] |
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 Kung Fu Fast Food Branding - Bruce Lee is Restaurant's Mascot::Kung Fu is a fast food restaurant chain in China that uses Bruce Lee as its mascot. That is one mascot you would not want to mess with.
There is Bruce Lee's branding throughout the restaurant with his… [MORE] |
 Posthumous Restaurant Openings - Five Leaves Opens, Minus Heath Ledger::Heath Ledger's hipster bar and restaurant, Five Leaves, is open. This was Heath Ledger's pet project before his death.
Converting a tiny bar and restaurant in Brooklyn and trying to make it hip was Heath… [MORE] |
 20 Unique Eating Utensils::Fun with Forks, Crazy for Spoons! What is it about these everyday items that just drives designers nuts to think they have to improve on them? Whatever drives them, you will just love looking at twenty… [MORE] |
 Açai Berry Candies - Jelly Belly's New Fan-Selected Flavor::I cannot get enough of Jelly Belly jelly beans, especially the way they can be combined to create new flavors.
Despite their 50+ ever-changing main flavors, Jelly Belly decided their selection wasn't… [MORE] |
 Edible Mini Kitchen Sets - Rachael Ray's 40th Birthday Cake::Rachael Ray celebrated her 40th birthday on her talk show this week with a cake like no other. The 3’ x 2’ chocolate cake, which was created by Pink Cake Box of Denville, New Jersey, was an astonishingly… [MORE] |
 Celebrating Cereal and Consumerism - Iconic Images from Breakfast Foods::Ryan Alexiev's latest exhibition, The Land of 1000 cereals, showcases the Los Angeles-born artist's uncanny knack of creating images of iconic figures using breakfast cereal.
Pamela Anderson, Larry King… [MORE] |
 Edible Video Game Art - Super Mario Wedding Cake::I imagine that this Super Mario Kart wedding cake was heartbreaking to cut despite the happiness of the occasion for which it was made.
The wedding cake itself is black chocolate cake filled with bittersweet… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Economical Eats - Cambodians Cook Up Field Rats::In the West, rats are worthy of little more than immediate extermination. They are not welcome in our kitchens, and certainly not on our plates.
In Cambodia however, where inflation has caused the cost… [MORE] |
 TV Shows That Make You Fat - Study: Crime Shows Cause Weight Gain::The U.S. is getting fatter and now a study indicates crime television may be a big, fat, contribution to overeating. ‘Law and Order,’ all the CSI’s, ‘Cold Case,’ ‘The Closer,’ and all of their respective… [MORE] |
 Edible Album Covers (UPDATE) - Bento Box Art::A traditional bento box is art in its own right; this Japanese blogger has taken this food art one step further by recreating famous album covers.
Within the gallery, you’ll see completed bento boxes… [MORE] |
 12 Snazzy Espresso Machines and Coffee Makers::The Trend Hunter office is in need of an espresso machine to ensure our energy is perked throughout the day (we strive to keep our enthusiasm infectiously high, and sometimes a latte is in order.)
To… [MORE] |
 Linguistic Turf Wars - Soda vs Pop Map Settles the Score::The choice and consequent usage of the word ‘soda’ or ‘pop’ is one of the US’ most argumentative topics, and it’s prevalent enough to warrant a study by the Journal of English Linguistics. Through the… [MORE] |
 29 Incredible Inedibles - Food Products Unfit for Consumption::Food is an essential component for life; as such, it naturally dominates even the non-culinary realms of our existence. These 30 food products may have been inspired by actual cuisine, but they’re certainly… [MORE] |
 Sweet Beefcakes - 10 Cake Steaks::These cake steaks are the bad boys of the bakery world. These sweet treats even let vegetarians enjoy a steak, entirely meatless, and completely enjoyable.
I love this random selection of cakes shaped… [MORE] |
 Competitive Lunch Box Creations - Star Wars Art in the Bento Challenge::A series of competitions have been launched by LiveJournal called the Bento Challenge who also created a Flickr pool which has themes ranging from Hollywood movies to panda bears.
The two outstanding… [MORE] |
 Making Food Cute - 10 Sushi Chic Designs::Sushi Chic is getting better and better as this list of ten fashionable sushi trends demonstrates. Surprisingly, it did not even take much fishing around to pull these together.
(1) Unseasonal fishy brilliance… [MORE] |
 Light Boxes for Fruit - Eco Box by Jung Hyuk::The Eco Box by Jung Hyuk is a clever concept for keeping fruit fresher, starting from when it is still on the tree! The fruit ripens naturally inside the box which has many ventilation holes before it… [MORE] |
 Modular Birthday Decorations - Lucky Candles for Uncluttered Cakes::As we get older, the number of candles on our birthday cake increases to the point that it’s hard to blow ‘em all with one breath. If you are particular about blowing out all your candles at once as not… [MORE] |
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