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True Carnivores – This Family Has Eaten Nothing but Meat for the Last 17 Years

Posted: 11 May 2015 04:54 AM PDT

Most nutritionists claim that a balanced diet is essential to living a long and healthy life, but the Anderson family is proof that their theories don’t apply to everyone. For almost two decades now, they have been following a zero carb, all-meat diet that they claim has kept them healthy, happy, and strong for all these years.

It all began when Joe Anderson experimented with high protein diets in the mid 1990s. And when his wife Charlene was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1998, the only food she could consume without having severe reactions was red meat. "This blew us away: fatty red meat, the very thing that had been demonized by the entire health community was giving her strength," Joe said in a recent interview with a popular zero-carb diet website.

Faced with this information, Joe and Charlene spent the next few years reading books and articles on meat-based diets that encouraged the consumption of fatty, red meat. They were trying to understand how such an 'extreme' diet was working so well for them. They were eventually convinced and completely switched over to eating only meat.

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Israeli Restaurant Uses Special Plates Optimized to Look Great on Instagram

Posted: 11 May 2015 04:06 AM PDT

Inspired by the growing trend of photographing your food and sharing the photos online before tucking in, a Tel Aviv restaurant has launched a special program that allows patrons to take the best food photos possible. Called “Foodography”, the unique concept relies on color-coordinated dishes, perfect lighting and custom-designed plates that either spin around to offer different photo angles, or come with a smartphone holder, to make the photos worth sharing on sites like Instagram or Pinterest.

"We wanted to reconnect with a new generation of customers – youngsters who connect with food through the lens of a smartphone," said a spokesman for Carmel Winery, the company that developed the concept along with Baumann Ber Rivnay advertising agency.

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Old Chinese Man Is So Lonely That He Would Give His Monthly Pension to Any Family Willing to Adopt Him

Posted: 11 May 2015 02:51 AM PDT

A pensioner in China recently posted a very bizarre newspaper ad – he is looking for a family willing to adopt him in exchange for his monthly pension.

75-year-old Huan Qi, from Changzhou in Jiangsu province, told People's Daily Online that he has been by himself ever since his wife passed away in 1999. His surviving relatives rarely visit him, and he is tired of waking up to an empty house, feeling lonely and miserable.

Huan's only son lives in a work dormitory in Changzhou, so is unable to take his father in. One of his older brothers lived in Changzhou, but he died years ago, and all his other siblings live in Shandong. His granddaughter is married, with a child, so she is to busy to visit him regularly.

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