Diet pill 'is as filling as a plate of pasta' (Interesting)

Telegraph UK ^ | 6-28-07 | Malcolm Moore

[Bladerunnuh]

Prof Ambrosio said a 500mg pill, washed down with two glasses of water, would create a tennis ball-sized lump in the stomach, making dieters feel full.

"We had one extremely important investor come to visit and he wanted to try the pill," he said. "He got very excited because he took one at 11 o'clock in the morning and at six o'clock in the afternoon he still couldn't finish an ice cream."

The pill was tested on 20 people for a month last year, and is being tested on a further 90 people at the Policlinico Gemelli hospital in Rome.

The results are due in

[Bladerunnuh]

I remember recently people were talking about this diet pill called "Alli", I think, and it was flying off the shelves, but it's side-effects were pretty nasty, and the company warns you should wear dark pants, and a change of clothes to work. Whooops.

Anyway, as soon as something safe works, I'm all over it.

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, remember back when the fake fat came out and one of the warnings was “explosive bowel movements?”

My doctor couldn’t even tell me about it with a straight face.

[elizabetty]

Just swallow one of these each morning, it is cheaper.

[tacticalogic]

If you try it and don’t like it, I’m going to suggest you disregard the normal advice and not flush the remainder down the toilet.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Here a safe, effective plan I will give you at no charge:

1. Eat a little less.
2. Be a little more selective about what you do eat.
3. Get a little more active.
4. Stick with it.

There ya go - weight loss, better health, no nasty side effects. :-)

[Bladerunnuh]

Ha ha— yeah, and on the Alli thing, the company says if you want to lessen the explosiveness, you should lower your fat intake, and I’m thinking— “if I could do that, I wouldn’t need the pills, sweety!”

[Gorzaloon]

I have a better idea.

< Liberal Mode >

Sprinkle buttery flavored salt on those styrofoam shipping peanuts that everyone hates to dispose of, and use it as a popcorn substitute.

They can be recovered, washed and dried, and then sprinkled with more buttery flavored salt and recycled!

We can get thin, and save Gaiea and all the Whales and Lesser Newts and consume less crops, and create Peace and Prosperity and have nothing else left to do but the AIDS candlelight vigils!!!

< /Liberal Mode >

[kinoxi]

First we grind up the dried sponges. Next we add the alka seltzer. Third we pi$$ in it (just for fun). Finally we sell it.

[ravingnutter]

No. 1 doesn’t work for everyone, I eat like a bird and practically starved myself, but couldn’t lose the weight and Hubby and I have been on a low-fat, low-carb, low sodium diet since his heart bypass surgery. The only thing I have found that works for me is eating more often. When I started doing that, I lost 35 lbs.

[Poison Pill]

Exactly what I did and it works like a charm. After about a month you don’t even think about it. It just becomes the way you live.

[Moonman62]

I remember recently people were talking about this diet pill called "Alli", I think, and it was flying off the shelves, but it's side-effects were pretty nasty, and the company warns you should wear dark pants, and a change of clothes to work.

Pretty much the same as eating a big scoop of Olestra sweetened with sorbitol.

[lainie]

What is the tennis-ball sized lump made of?? gross!

[discostu]

The problem with a diet pill like this is that by swelling to fill the stomach it doesn’t allow the stomach to shrink. The key to keeping the weight off is reduction of your appetite, you’ve got to let the stomach shrink to the point where under normal circumstance the amount of food you need to eat to be full isn’t more than you’re going to burn with your normal activity.

[Clara Lou]

The anorexia-bulemia crowd will misuse this terribly. People will die.

[Minn]

Here a safe, effective plan I will give you at no charge:

Mine is simpler. A two step plan for weight loss:

1.Get on Bike
2.Ride

In some cases a step three may be necessary:

3.Tell whiny wife and kids to quit complaining. You will be back in a few hours.

[RockinRight]

So basically if I swallow three of them it will feel like my typical serving of pasta.

;-)

[RockinRight]

I try, I really do. The hardest part is the eating less thing. If I eat what is called a “serving” by the FDA, it’s gone in 3 bites and I’m still hungry.

And good for you food is more expensive, and for the next month or so I need to eat cheap.

[RockinRight]

I suppose you could slowly reduce the “dosage” each day to counter that a bit.

I dunno. It’s weird either way...I wonder what the stuff is made of.

[RinaseaofDs]

Take 3/4 of a pill in two months, 1/2 a pill two months after that, and 1/4 of a pill two months after that.

This will work. It deals with hunger, and hunger is the thing that hangs you up every time.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

...would create a tennis ball-sized lump in the stomach...

So did my ex-wifes' cooking....

[discostu]

Back in the days before psuedo-ephedrine most diet pills were made of yeast or something similar. Then of course somebody invented legal speed and the diet pill industry changed dramatically. This is really a return to the old days, probably some sort of yeast like stuff, probably primarily inspired by the restrictions put on psuedo-ephedrine recently by the WOD.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

First we grind up the dried sponges. Next we add the alka seltzer. Third we pi$$ in it (just for fun). Finally we sell it.

Stop giving the chinese ideas dang it!

[Wacka]

What happens when you have to pass that “tennis ball” out the other end?

[discostu]

Maybe. A problem with the ween off is that now you’re still going to be shrinking the stomach, only you’re going to be doing it in stages, so not only do you still wind up with the hunger to deal with you’re going to have it for a longer period of time. I dropped a bunch of weight and I know the stomach shrinking stage SUCKS, one of the things that made the diet survivable was that it was just one week of that hell and once my stomach did shrink the diet was pretty much self sustaining (my appetite had been reduced, all I needed to do after that was make sure I didn’t binge and re-expand the stomach). If I followed your plan I’d go through that week 4 times, now it might not be as intense because the shrinkage isn’t as much, but I definitely prefer do it once and get it over with.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Metamucil does the exact same thing.

[underbyte]

Just a thought what if it gets caught in your throat and then swells up...

[Beelzebubba]

[Ladysmith]

Concerning #2. Select good fats, cut out sugars and processed flours that causes cravings, and you fill up faster. Then you’ll eat less.

[discostu]

Hopefully it’s a fairly slow expansion. Fast could be pretty painful even if it got all the way to the stomach first. Although there is some definite sketch comedy potential in a pill that blows up like a raft as soon as it hits the stomach.

[Squeako]

Why take diet pills, when you can enjoy AIDS?

[manic4organic]

You could take these and head for the nearest tennis court to serve a few aces.

[Hegemony Cricket]

YMMV - your metabolism may vary...

[Hegemony Cricket]

You got it! :-)

[RinaseaofDs]

Good point

[Tokra]

I remember a Little Rascals episode where Alfalfa drank some concoction that Butch had made. Alfalfa swelled up like a balloon. At the end of the episode he fell down and belched hurricane force winds.

Anyone who wants to try this "diet pill" might want to watch that episode first.

[poindexter]

1.Get on Bike
2.Ride

Didn't Freddie Mercury give that same advice years ago?

[Aquinasfan]

Just swallow one of these each morning, it is cheaper.

LOL!

[gogeo]

Sprinkle buttery flavored salt on those styrofoam shipping peanuts that everyone hates to dispose of, and use it as a popcorn substitute...

They already do that...it's called "rice cakes."

[webstersII]

“The hardest part is the eating less thing. If I eat what is called a “serving” by the FDA, it’s gone in 3 bites and I’m still hungry.”

Ever try Atkins or a modified version of Atkins? The higher fat content makes you feel full faster and stays with you longer. The low-fat diet is not good for a lot of people.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

But does it taste as good as a plate of spaghetti or dish of ice cream?

[RockinRight]

Not in any serious way. I’ve heard it gives you bad breath though because of something called ketosis.

[socal_parrot]

Simple...

Calories burned > Caloric intake

[Pilsner]

I'm not a big fan of Dr Dean Adell (SP?), but sometimes I leave the AM talk station on out of habit, and hear him. Somebody called in asking about an advertisment for a diet aid. He said that when a safe, highly effective and cheap diet aid is invented, the makers won't have to advertise it. It will be the #1 story on every media outlet from the The New England Journal of Medicine, to the CBS Evening News. I think he got that much right.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

I'm not a big fan of Dr Dean Adell...

I heard him talking about the Atkins Diet a few years ago. The caller said that the diet does work for weight loss. Dr Dean said that Chemotherapy would work too, he just wouldn't recommend it. LOL

[Ladysmith]

If you want to see Dr’s. Atkins and Adell butt heads, check this out:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/view/

After a month of low-fat and high carb (after surgeries), I’m back on Atkins. And already feel better for it! Thank God!

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

After a month of low-fat and high carb (after surgeries), I’m back on Atkins. And already feel better for it! Thank God!

I agree that Atkins, or something like it,it the way to go. I just thought Dr Dean's comment was funny.

[Tamar1973]

I remember recently people were talking about this diet pill called "Alli", I think, and it was flying off the shelves, but it's side-effects were pretty nasty, and the company warns you should wear dark pants, and a change of clothes to work. Whooops.

I saw those in Walmart today. Why would anyone take something like that?! I don't want to spend 24/7 sitting on the loo!