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AYDS, or How to Ensure Your Diet Product Will Crash and Burn

I’m not exactly sure why, but this diet product isn’t around anymore:

According to wikipedia:
Ayds was an appetite-suppressant candy which enjoyed strong sales in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was available in chocolate, chocolate mint, butterscotch or caramel flavors, and later a peanut butter flavor was introduced.

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Yoga Instructors Lighten Things Up

The New York Times has an interesting piece on how some yoga instructors are trying to change the image of what their favorite activity is all about. To the layperson, yoga enthusiasts are super thin maybe even overly earnest people who only eat tofu and bean sprouts. This is, of course, a gross exaggeration.
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Burger King Wants You to Smell Like Beef

Nothing says sex appeal like fast food.
Not willing to accept that people think The Burger King is already sufficiently creepy, the marketing gurus who work for BK have introduce Flame, the company’s beef-scented cologne, capped off with a naked spread of the King on the product’s website.
Yes, cologne. Beef-scented.
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