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"  Listen, we&amp;#039;re all for challenges. Squats, clean-eating, abs, paleo... you name it, and we&amp;#039;re probably in. The challenge a Seattle woman named Beautiful Existence (yes, legally) just completed; however, we&amp;#039;re not so sure about. For all of 2013, Beautiful only consumed foods and drinks sold by Starbucks. If you&amp;#039;re wondering why anyone would sentence herself to a solid year of biscotti and Frappuccinos without corporate sponsorship (that&amp;#039;s right, Beautiful paid for her daily Starbucks with her own bucks), Existence has an answer for you.  &amp;quot;[H]ow can eating only one company&amp;#039;s products impact me, anybody? Well, Mr. McDonald&amp;#039;s already proved that question years ago with his documentary, and Mr. Subway did his take on the losing weight portion of the food challenges too. But when I watched those guys doing their thing, I asked myself &amp;#039;where are the WOMEN challenging themselves in the world? Where are the effects being shown on a woman&amp;#039;s culture? A woman&amp;#039;s family and children? A woman&amp;#039;s diet, weight, fashion, checkbook, community, and world through challenges? Where is HER VOICE on how an international company is directly or indirectly impacting everything from her waistline to her bottom line and every other woman&amp;#039;s, man&amp;#039;s, child&amp;#039;s, societies and planets world with their presence?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; So, um, feminism and women&amp;#039;s equality? We can&amp;#039;t say our takeaway message from Super Size Me and Subway&amp;#039;s Jared Fogle was that their results were only applicable to men, but we can kind of see Beautiful&amp;#039;s point. The media hasn&amp;#039;t featured many women participating in these unique challenges, and that seems to be one of her main reasons for doing these her tests of fortitude.  It&amp;#039;s also interesting to see the news stories about Existence&amp;#039;s challenge, which all seem to focus on this &amp;quot;crazy&amp;quot; woman and &amp;quot;thank god she didn&amp;#039;t make her husband and kids do it too,&amp;quot; versus the ones about Morgan Spurlock and Jared Fogle. Those articles were mostly full of praise for, in the case of the former, physically demonstrating the detrimental effects of fast food on the human body, and, in Jared&amp;#039;s case, losing weight. Plus, Fogle earned a corporate sponsorship from his quest; Existence doesn&amp;#039;t seem to be after a lifetime of freebies from Starbucks. This isn&amp;#039;t her first year-long challenge. In 2012, she followed all of the tips in Parents magazine, and in 2011, she only bought things for herself and her family from Goodwill. And in case you&amp;#039;re wondering what Beautiful has on deck for 2014, she plans to learn over 80 recreational sports. Here&amp;#039;s to a much healthier year than last, Beautiful.        For 1 Year Of My Life Intro Video from Beautiful Existence on Vimeo.  [Via BuzzFeed] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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