Strange Weight Loss Procedure: Tongue Patch That Makes It Painful to Eat

How many people? Only 20 pounds? Hmn. Some problems: it’s only for a short while, so they’ll go right back to the eating, and hey, ice cream, pop, bon bons, milkshakes and so on, are all easily digestible, things that one need not chew.

In other words, if I can come up with a work around in approximately a minute, so will the doctor’s patients. Meanwhile, he’ll make some nice quack money from people too lazy to diet, and exercise.

It says average weight loss, not total (or combined) weight loss. In other words, based on the wording, one has to assume that each of the 35 people lost on average 20 pounds. That’s the only way the word “average” makes any mathematical sense in that sentence. Otherwise, if the total weight loss was known to be 20 pounds there would be no need to mention “average”, as it would be the average of… what exactly?

That’s probably the grossest, most freaky thing I’ve seen this week!
The homeless bloke is definitely a better idea.
Or, you know, stop eating so much.

Actually no, this is obviously the future. Think I’ll go cut the skin off my fingers so I can’t hold my cigarette any more. That’ll help me give up.

The can have some Clockwork Orange-juice, as it sounds like this came straight out of that movie.

Steak, mashed potatoes, peas, put them in a blender. Enjoy your high calorie smoothie.

And then the weight will come right back on as soon as the patch is removed and they can eat solid foods again.
I guess good if you’re looking for a way to lose weight temporarily.
Don’t see it as any weider than people getting their mouths wired shut.

Why would you hurt yourself just to keep from eating? Unless you’re morbidly obese and in mortal danger, just enjoy the food and be fat.

Or, exercise and get a little will power.

This seems like induced anorexia or something…

And sometimes, if someone has tried every diet and cannot stop eating, it might not be so much of a willpower malfunction as an eating disorder linked to some kind of emotional situation. Another diet, for those who simply cannot stop eating, could be harmful, expensive, or just plain ineffective (especially if their metabolism has slowed due to previous dieting).

Whoops-that’s ‘were’, not ‘wre’.

20 lbs in a month doesn’t sound that healthy, and maybe they have some vitamin deficiency or horomone problem that is making them eat so much, or maybe they are weak willed, or maybe this is fake – it sounds ridiculous and arguably-unethical.

Seems that we keep coming up with ways to force behavior changes. Working with people to loose that kind of weight in a month is not a probelm without surgery. However if they don’t address the problems with their being able to obtain weight loss on their own they are only going to put it right back on.

Nutrition can be achieved even on a very low claorie diet. It just needs to have a lot more work done along with it to make sure this isn’t just a new way to yo-yo people’s metabolism and weight loss.

I second it,it might even keep that big mouth of michelle’s shut long enuf,for her new novelist to finish a few more lines in her new book ”Mine camp of anti-obesity”. So far all it says is,We stole 5 billion dollars from the food stamp program when out of work americans needed it most to feed there families”………next line,It will go to enrich our fellow socialists at tobacco control/fat control propaganda research facilities around the world……

You see we had to cut tobacco control in order to create anti-obesity science as we did with second hand smoke,so look at all the smoking bans we now have in place,oh never mind that we paid off politicians to make it happen……..