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Minnies: Restaurant That Specializes In Portion Control With Miniature Foods


As we become more health conscious as a society, it's all about portion control and snacking versus consuming large meals. But when you eat out you will often find that you are stuck with large portions, either forgoing your healthy eating lifestyle and overeating, or wasting your food and the money you paid for it. A new restaurant makes all foods in miniature size to accommodate proper good portioning.

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Sno:La Yogurt: Mouth Watering and Guilt-Free Eco-Friendly Yogurt Company


Frozen yogurt tends to be a guilt-free desert as it's lighter on the calories and the fat content. But there's another reason to feel a little bit of remorse when satisfying your sweet tooth, because until Sno:La came along, no frozen yogurt shop specialized in a product that has 100% organic and natural desert treat.

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Can You Spot the Weenie? 10 Subtle Ads Crave Your Attention


In the competition to get your attention on a product, marketing firms utilize a lot of tricks.  One of them is to subtly place phallic imagery into an ad in hopes that it will filter somehow into your subconscious and lead you to purchase the product.  Read on for a few examples...

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BottleClip Bike Water Bottle Holder


An interesting, if not useful design, the BottleClip is a new take on attaching your water bottle to your bike.

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Fashion For Jitter Bugs: Coffee Filter Fashion Prom Dress


Based on the lineup at Starbucks, coffee addicts seem to be getting younger and younger everyday. One young coffee drinker just can't shake her love for coffee, so she brought her addiction to a new level by bringing it to her prom. Yes, you will understand how coffee and fashion come together if you keep on reading.

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AIR-igator: Collects AC Water For Your Garden


In some places (like where I live) it's too hot to turn off the AC unit and open up the windows. On some days temperatures can reach over 100 degrees, that's why our AC stays on all the time. Asking us to take off more clothes to cool off and conserve energy would leave us naked, so how do we, the consumers, stay cool and cut down on our carbon footprint? We could try an AIR-igator.

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Virtual Beer Satisfies Every Sense - Except Taste


Virtual Beer Satisfies Every Sense - Except Taste
Thinking of a cool, frosty beer after a long day at work or play? Just imagine cracking open a cold one... nice! Now you can experience the vicarious pleasure of popping open a beer or soda can anytime, anywhere, as often as you want.

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Don't Waste A Crumb With This DIY Bird Feeder: Bird Crumbs


I've seen this photo so many times, but until today I had no idea who designed this clever bird feeder. The Bird Crumbs feeder is, in fact, a do-it-yourself project, created by Spanish industrial designer, Curro Claret.  Isn't it tooo wonderful?

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Twitter Powered Mobile Ice Cream Shop


A number of businesses have been popping up lately which use Twitter to recruit clientele, proving just how powerful social networking can be, especially when it comes to business development. The latest business powered by Twitter is Coolhaus, the mobile Ice Cream shop.

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Tasty, Artistic, & Natural Gourmet Treats For Dogs, Cats, Horses, & Birds!


There's a fantastic line of yummy goodies for your pets - I've even tasted the dog cookies - created by a gourmet chef, Mitch Ross. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ross flipped his catering business into an international gourmet all-natural treat business for dogs, cats, horses and birds. These treats are artistically creative and very reasonably priced.

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New Scale Makes Your Weight Public Knowledge


A new product called the BodyTrace eScale is designed to keep track of your weight loss efforts – by posting the results online for all to see.

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High Fat Diet May Lead To Pancreatic Cancer


A new study now shows that a diet high in fat from red meats and dairy may be linked to pancreatic cancer.

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Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Even Corn Flakes Can Be Killers


This bowl of corn flakes looks innocent enough.  I remember when corn flakes and milk was considered one of the healthiest meals you could eat.  But in a groundbreaking study just released by Tel Aviv University, researchers actually observed the damage a diet of corn flakes, or other high carbohydrate foods, does to the heart.

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Indian Curry Breaks Up Dementia Plaques In Mice


Don't throw away your curry jar; it just may keep you from developing Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia.  People from India and other cultures in the east where turmeric grows have a very low incidence of Alzheimer's, an observation which led to some recent mice experiments at Duke University.

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Slow Cooker Dinner Kits: The Fastest Way To Cook A Real Meal


I have exactly one recipe for my slow cooker and that's pork with barbecue sauce and orange juice.  When I get tired of that, I substitute brisket for the pork.  Not very exciting.

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Give Your Dogs Barf On The Barf Diet


The Barf Diet. It makes me want to barf just thinking about it, never mind writing about it. Yes, there really is such a diet and it's even supposed to be good for dogs: Barf World says so!

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Booze On The Links Has Never Been Easier


The Golf Bag Drink Dispenser is the perfect way to transport your favorite drink onto the golf course.

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Synovi G3 For Dogs: Product Review


My dog had become slow and very careful, particularly when lying down or getting up from a lie down position.  In the last few months, his movements became more labored and even his walk appeared strained ...

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10 New & Exotic Foods Coming To NYC's 2009 Summer Fancy Food Show


The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) is holding its 55th Summer Fancy Food Fair in New York City this weekend (June 28 - 30, 2009) and my mouth waters just reading about some of the luscious new foods premiering at the event. If you can get there, here are ten tasties I'd love you to try for me! (This list leans to the sweet, I warn you.)

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Feeling Blue? Japan's Got a Beer for That


Feeling Blue? Japan's Got a Beer for That
Feeling blue? Japan's got a beer for that: Okhotsk Blue to be exact, a foamy brew made with water sourced from icebergs, tinted icy blue with seaweed.

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