Cat and Girl: Dietary Restrictions
Webcomic Cat and Girl touches upon some dietary restrictions, both widely known (milk-free diet) and not (riboflavin-free diet).
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Diet Blues
Japanese company Yumetai has created "dieter's sunglasses" with deep-blue lenses. According to research, the color blue suppresses the brain's appetite center. The sunglasses also block red light, which tends to stimulate the appetite. It seems plausible that these sunglasses could be an effective (and novel) dieting tool—as evidence, the Amateur Gourmet's Blue Food contest held last year. Browsing the entries, you should experience an immediate loss of appetite (no offense to the entrants). The glasses are available here. [via Inventor Spot]
Tempting Ed Levine
So Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine is on a diet. Which kinda blows for the rest of us here in the office because it means the days of "Oh, I just stopped at the bakery on the way in and picked up one of everything they had" are over. That's why I'm supporting Kevin Weeks (right, proprietor of Seriously Good) in his (good-natured, I think?) blog war against Ed:
So over the next 12 months I will tempt Mister Ed Levine with sandwiches. Sandwiches he, the fancy New Yorker, can’t possibly duplicate or, if he does, will be bad for his health. I, too, am risking my health in this culinary Russian Roulette, but I'm confident that I will prevail and at the end of 2008 we will see that Ed Levine really isn't that serious about eating—or sandwiches.
Kevin: Please tempt away. But know that Ed has been surprisingly steadfast with his diet, powered as he is by his 100-calorie snack packs. (Speaking of which, look for expanded snack-pack coverage on the site—as opposed to expanding waistlines!)
Pill That Kills Your Appetite... And Boosts Your Libido
I can't decide whether this news from the BBC is great or terrifying, so maybe it's both: Scottish researchers are developing a pill to boost women's libidos while simultaneously reducing their appetites. As a psychologist points out in the article, a lot of the time our problems with both food and sex are not biological but mental—taking a pill that makes you want to eat a third less might make you lose weight, but it doesn't help you address why you felt you needed to eat all that extra food. It might be an easy diet, but it'll still end up a yo-yo diet.
(Also, if it does turn out to work, I'm sure there are many women who'd legitimately stand to benefit from taking it, but at the same time I worry it's yet another way to turn into Stepford Wives. Where's the pill to make me like doing dishes?)
