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    Good Food

    Extreme Diet Inventions

    Fad Diet founder Tom Nardone discovers unusual and bizarre diet inventions that have received US patents. Nardone's also created other quirky websites, including Gingerbread Ghetto , showing the silly, yet dark side of gingerbread houses, and Extreme Pumpkins , depicting zany pumpkin carvings.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Fad Diet founder Tom Nardone discovers unusual and bizarre diet inventions that have received US patents. Nardone's also created other quirky websites, including Gingerbread Ghetto, showing the silly, yet dark side of gingerbread houses, and Extreme Pumpkins, depicting zany pumpkin carvings.

    Music break: Music for Staring a Ceilings by El Ten Eleven

    The full episode

    2 of 7
    Master Cleanse; Michael Pollan's Manifesto; Diet Inventions
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:00Extreme Diet InventionsYou’re reading this
    3. 15:00Das Food
    4. 22:00Master Cleanse
    5. 36:00The Writing Diet
    6. 43:00Discovering America Eats
    7. 50:00Red Wine Hangover Device
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Thea Chaloner

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    2 of 7
    Master Cleanse; Michael Pollan's Manifesto; Diet Inventions
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:00Extreme Diet InventionsYou’re reading this
    3. 15:00Das Food
    4. 22:00Master Cleanse
    5. 36:00The Writing Diet
    6. 43:00Discovering America Eats
    7. 50:00Red Wine Hangover Device
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