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Fitness digest: Behind the fat-in-soda ads and elusive diet drugs

Original slimming factor Diet pills to treat obesity are like unicorns and fairy godmothers - they don’t really exist. The FDA scuttled another weight-loss drug this week. Here another myth - a YouTube video went viral warning that drinking soda every day would make you gain 10 pounds. Viewers got to see a man chugging dollops of fat. Disgusting? Yes, but was it true?

Here are some of the interesting, quirky or bizarre diet-and-fitness items this week.  Tell us your suggestions for interesting stories, posts or websites that caught your eye.

Your comments: Donating your body to science

Perhaps because Halloween is upon we and our minds are on all things ghoulish, our Empowered Patient column yesterday on ten uses for your body after you die ( slimming factor generation2 organ donation, museum submission, cadaver dissection for first-year medical students, among others) generated nearly 400 comments.