Usain Bolt

Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning gold in the men's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 2013. Bolt reportedly ate a lot of McDonald's en route to becoming one of the world's fastest humans. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File) (Martin Meissner)

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The Diet of Champions-- "[T]hey lived on a diet of McDonalds, but that did not stop Ryan Lochte winning 4 Olympic medals for the USA, and Usain Bolt winning 3 Olympic medals for Jamaica, becoming the then fastest Olympian over 100m in the process." (Decibel h/t Digg)

IBM's AI computer has come up with some pretty incredible food pairings-- "Knowledge thatmight've taken a lifetime for a Michelin-starred chef to attain can now be accessedinstantly from your tablet." (Mike Murphy/Quartz)

How Peter Chang stopped running and started empire building-- Chang was once America's most famous elusive chef. "Chang's triumphal return to Northern Virginia generated so much excitement that Changians -- as his devoted pack members call themselves -- briefly crashed the Arlington restaurant's Web site before the place could open its doors." (Tim Carman/The Washington Post)

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