Thanksgiving is one of the only American holidays that comes with a traditional meal.  In fact, the whole point of Thanksgiving seems to be to eat as much as possible: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pumpkin pie.  We’re thankful for all that food, but standard Thanksgiving meals started to seem a little boring. That’s why we put together a list of the craziest Thanksgiving food we could find.  Some of it sounds awesome, but the rest of it sounds so gross that even canned cranberry sauce is starting to look good.

In honor of all things lacy, silky and push-up, Shine went backstage yesterday at the 16th annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to see the models pre-runway. Though the show won't air until November 30, it was filmed (twice!) on Wednesday November 10 at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City. Sadly, we didn't stay for the show to see performances by Katy Perry and Akon, or for the introduction of VS's latest creation — the $2 million diamond-encrusted "Bombshell Fantasy Bra" set in 18-karat white gold — but we did get to chat with some of the models while they got their hair and makeup done.

Check out the photos below to see what it's like backstage and for some crazy, little-known facts about the company, their famous lingerie and the ladies who wear it.

InCANvenient Truth
Much to the dismay of Carl the Can Man, Americans discard over 40 billion aluminum cans each year. Now, the motivational speaker extraordinaire has come out of retirement to drop Alumifacts on the world. For example, did you know aluminum is infinitely recyclable and can be back on the store shelf in as little as 60 days? It's true. And if every American recycled just one more can per week, we would remove over 17 billion cans from landfills each year, saving over 2 million metric tons of CO2. As Carl would say, we CAN do it!

Your retirement planning may include visions of a home close to the beach, mountains or a lake. Or maybe you're hoping for a Main Street kind of place, a walkable community or a budget-friendly locale.
Bankrate researched median home prices in some of the United States' top retirement spots, as outlined in "America's 100 Best Places to Retire," edited by Elizabeth Armstrong.
Median home prices in the 10 places Bankrate selected from the book's "top" lists range from $125,000 in Danville, Ky., to $639,500 in Carlsbad, Calif., with many homes priced in the high $100,000s to the low $200,000s.
Here's what you can expect from among the best places to retire in the U.S

Danville, Ky.
Price: $125,000
Area median price: $125,000
Features
• 3 bedrooms, 2 baths
• 1,456 square feet
• One-car detached garage
• Covered deck, open patio

I was talking with my friend Dr. Travis Stork—host of TV's The Doctors—about his other gig, running the emergency room at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Though he educates millions about healthy living on TV, he comes up against some tough customers in the E.R. Like the woman who came in suffering complications from diabetes, and slurped from a 40-ounce soda as she described her symptoms! Clearly, some people still don’t realize just how responsible these drinks are for the ballooning of our waistlines. So much so, in fact, that one study that tracked the diets of more than 800 people found those who eliminated 100 liquid calories a day lost five times as much weight as those who cut 100 food calories. That means you’ll lose more weight by giving up soda than you will by passing on pizza. That’s great news for you, but really bad news for the soda industry—which depends on Big Gulps and the like to sweeten its bottom line (and expand yours).

So now the beverage industry is responding by casting their beverages in a new light. Today we hear of sweetened tea drinks brimming with antioxidants, 1,200-calorie smoothies that are "all natural" (so are sharks and hurricanes, by the way), and vitamin drinks that give you super-human strength. Not all of these drinks explicitly brand themselves “diet” drinks—the FDA would never allow that. But they are using clever marketing campaigns to convince us that they’re vastly superior to the sugary syrups of yore. Problem is, many of these fluid flab-makers are actually worse than the drinks they aim to replace! But the good news is, you can fight back—and lose up to 20 pounds annually, for starters, just by swearing off the soda and iced tea. Then, shed even more weight by avoiding these dangerous "diet" drinks, compliments of the latest research from Drink This, Not That!