Urban legend or not? Diet pills in the 1920's-30's filled with tapeworm eggs and other retching around the skinny-sphere

• In this enlightening post, "The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in History," #3 talks about hard core diet remedies including the urban legend that in the 1920s-30s, diet pills were actually loaded with tapeworm eggs because with your friendly tapeworm intestinal house guest, you could eat all you want and not get fat because the tapeworm ate all the food and basically you starved. It sounds so outrageous that I believe it. The rest of the list is quite frightening like #8 where docs used heroin to cure coughs. [Cracked]

• A Canadian women going home from vacation here in the States set off the metal detectors at the airport. The culprit was the under wire from her 34FF bra. Guess you'd need an Erector set to hold those ginormous puppies in place. When security couldn't initially find the metal culprit they took Ms. Canadian to a private room where a female guard squeezed her bazoombas like one does when squeezing for fresh melons at the farmers market. Was that really necessary? If a bra is considered a threat to national safety, were all in a heap o' trouble. [Edmonton Journal]

• According to the Law of Attraction, we attract to ourselves what we think about the most. Can anyone say "The Secret." So, in order to attract the relationship you want, stop thinking about the one you just left and why it was all wrong. You'll just magnetize the same thing. Anyone know someone who keeps dating the same guy/gal just in a different body? [Ask Dan and Jennifer]

• Many of you will be getting on an airplane today to get to a loved one's place for Thanksgiving. FitSugar has some great tips to keep your sanity in check while traveling. I'll add to the list. Be sure to put up your personal force field around you as the airport is filled with asanine-ness and energy vampires. This way nothing will bother you and you can feel like a charmed 4400. Okay, yeah, I watch too much Sci-Fi [FitSugar]