Diet firm offers revised best job in the world

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If you are a proud American who, at the end of the day, just wants to be paid to sit around and eat junk food, it sucks to be you. That's because your dream job is over in England. In a serious challenge to Australia's "Best Job in the World," Proactol Ltd. is advertising a new position whose sole requirement is to "eat 400 extra calories every day in high fat meals." The goal is to test the company's weight-loss product—which, thanks to its fat-binding properties, supposedly helps people lose weight even if they eat more.

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