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Food Arranged by Color
There is something about food, design and art that always grabs my attention
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Instead of Junk Food, Eat Paper
“Slim Chips is an experiment around alternative types of snack food. The consumption of junk food is very often associated to habits and social rituals that help interrupt the flow of routinary daily activities more than to the hunger impulse. The basic ingredient here is edible paper, almost nutritionless. Don’t get fat, just eat nothing. It’s like eating tasty air, available in mint flavour, blueberry, cheddar or wasabi.”
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The New Caveman
“A small subset of New York City dwellers are going back — way back — to a prehistoric way of life (The New Age Cavemen and the City by NYTimes.com 1.10.10).
These elemental 20 and 30somethings (called cavemen, paleos or hunter-gatherers) believe in a lifestyle that’s more similar to that of our very ancient ancestors. They eat large quantities of meat, skip carbs and processed foods and often fast for days at a time to re-create prehistoric famines. To keep in shape, they do cavemen-esque workouts like scrambling through the woods on all fours and playing catch with stones…
What This Means to Business
• For years, consumers have been eschewing processed foods in favor of whole, local, organic grub. The caveman movement is a way of pushing that envelope (much) further.
• Everything old — canning, making your own bread, gardening — is new (and cool) again. Caveman-style living takes this idea to the logical extreme.
• In a marketplace where the Primitive Diet is gaining steam and urbanites are signing up for deer-hunting lessons, living like a prehistoric human makes a little more sense.”
Insights by Iconoculture
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Combat Wrinkles with a Sweet Tomato Pill
Will tomatoes be the next trend in anti-aging products?
popsop.com:The confectionery giant Nestlé and the huge cosmetics manufacturer L’Oréal have combined forces and created sugar-coated pills that iron out wrinkles. The new product, Inneov Fermete, slows down the skin aging with the help of a compound taken from tomatoes.
The pill’s secret is lycopene, the red carotene pigment derived from tomatoes, which is strengthened by a form of vitamin C and isoflavone chemicals taken from soya bean. The innovative product makes the skin more elastic and lessens the number of winkles after 3-6 months of using, the manufactures assure. It preserves old skin cells and makes the new one grow more rapidly…Read more about Inneov Fermete
