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Who says Twinkies are bad for you? Kansas State University professor Mark Haub lost 26.2 pounds in 10 weeks. His secret? A diet of nothing but Twinkies, Doritos, doughnuts, and other foods high in saturated fats. Haub's cholesterol levels also improved and his body fat percentage went down by 8.5 percent. The professor says he wants to show dieters they can eat treats and still lose weight, but does not advocate an all-junk-food diet. Shame.

Though there'll be no more daily commune with the queen of talk once her show goes off the air at the end of this season, but you can bet we'll still be getting a healthy dose of Oprah in our lives, and she promises it will be "bitch"-free. Oprah's new network – aptly named the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) – will hit the airwaves this coming January 1. The queen herself took to the stage at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference in California and announced that her cable network will be "fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine." We are imagining it Oprah, and we can hardly wait.

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