It all started last year during a terrible thunderstorm, when I locked myself out of the house. Sheltering myself with a large piece of sheet metal, I ran for cover under the tallest tree I could find!— Homer
The latest celebrity diet to make headlines won't soon be converting the Atkins-obsessed masses. Particularly since it belongs to the portly patriarch of TV's favourite dysfunctional family, The Simpsons.
The Homer Simpson diet, which is analysed in a new study from Rutgers University, is based on a staple of fats, sweets, alcohol, doughnuts and salty or fatty snacks.
After analysing 63 random episodes of The Simpsons, Rutgers researchers found Homer not only eats more often than the other characters, but also talks about food more, eats greater quantities at meal time, and is less active. We at Simpson Crazy believe that anyone that basis their diet around Homer's is just crazy... even more so than us. Read the full story here.
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