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Week 1: Three workouts per day; six meals per day (start tapering down meals) Week 2: Begin putting salt in drinking water; continue tapering down meals Week 3: Begin juice-only diet (7 raw juices total) Day of Photo Shoot: No drinking or eating until right before the shoot -- eat only raw white potatoes This is the diet undertaken by Bryce Harper, a 22-year-old professional baseball player for the Washington Nationals. Once considered the most overrated new player, Harper is now considered the MVP favorite in the MLB, and he was one of many athletes highlighted in this year’s edition of ESPN’s Body Issue magazine. The Body Issue magazine, Huffington Post states, “highlights and celebrates athletes’ physiques in all their wondrous shapes and sizes” -- female athletes, like U.S. hammer thro...

On Friday, July 10, South Carolina finally removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol building, lowering the controversial symbol "with dignity." Major retailers like Wal-Mart have declared they will no longer sell merchandise that contains images of the flag. Now, a major institution of southern white culture is grappling with the issue as well -- critics are demanding NASCAR do more to keep the flag out of its racetracks this summer. In the popular imagination, NASCAR is perhaps unfairly maligned as a "redneck" sport; however, in a nation with almost 800 cars per 1,000 residents, it's also a hugely popular All-American culture of its own. NASCAR issued a statement supporting South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's efforts to take down the flag once and for all this July. Plus, t...