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[Thu, 7-Jun-2007 10:52 PM]

[	Tags	\|	a/b, balls, parts, the future	]
[	music	\|	L7 -- Diet Pill	]

Jelly Belly:

Italian scientists are testing a new diet pill that turns into a clear, gelatinous blob the size of a tennis ball that may help shrink waistlines by giving dieters a sense of satiety.
"The effect is like eating a nice plate of pasta," said Luigi Ambrosio, lead researcher on the project.
The unnamed pill is made from a cellulose compound of hydrogel, a material that's powdery when dry but plumps up to a cousin of Jell-O when wet. The gel can soak up to 1,000 times its weight. A gram in capsule form quickly balloons from the size of a spit wad to a ball that holds nearly a liter of liquid.

Let's recap:

Exhibit A:
A Nice Plate of Pasta.

Exhibit B:
Happy Fun Ball.

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Comments:

From:

jayp39
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 6:34 AM (UTC)

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Interesting. As long as the temporary dessication of one's stomach doesn't cause problems, I can see this as a solution for someone who can't stop at just one nice plate of pasta.

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From:

maxmin
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 6:42 AM (UTC)

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I'm wondering how it "passes"...

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From:

sneakums
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 10:01 AM (UTC)

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Out the other end, I'd imagine.

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quercus
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 12:06 PM (UTC)

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The "blob" degrades after a few hours into slime. It's only cellulose, your stomach digests it quite easily. This is its big advantage over balloons.

AIUI, the big problem is the extreme hydrophilic nature of this stuff. If you've ever got hydrogel cat litter stuck to your tongue, you'll know just how painful this can be. What the Italians have done is to find a way of slowing down the absorbtion of this stuff to make it safely deliverable.

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From:

ungratefulninja
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 5:18 PM (UTC)

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I'm not asking someone on the internet how they got cat litter stuck to their tongue.

I'm just not.

*twitch*

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From:

taffer
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 3:16 PM (UTC)

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I wonder if this is at all useful for people with excess stomach acid, or if you'd just end up with a large, deadly blob of horrible, horrible acid.

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From:

johnsmith45678
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 6:39 AM (UTC)

The complete Veruca Salt look can be achieved...

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by swallowing the pill down the wrong pipe.

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johnsmith45678
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 6:44 AM (UTC)

er make that the Violet Beauregarde look...

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damnit

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From:

eigenfrequenz
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:02 AM (UTC)

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yummie :/ It could be a chance for some people. Sure. But in the end they will have to change their way of living and not only eat this ... thing oO

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From:

33mhz
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:50 AM (UTC)

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Surely nothing bad could come of using this.

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From:

phoenixredux
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 3:28 PM (UTC)

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Yes... What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Let's all have a big bowl of it right now! I wonder if it comes in Popcorn flavor?

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korgmeister
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:54 AM (UTC)

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As a fat bastard, I am intrigued by this development.

Mind you, I eat for taste rather than fullness so this probably won't solve anything.

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pozorvlak
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 9:12 AM (UTC)

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Oh my God, that stuff actually exists! It featured on last night's Hustle as an essential component of their complicated casino heist. I'd assumed it was made up.

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4zumanga
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 9:48 AM (UTC)

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I'm sure the companies would LOVE to be allowed to sell this as a diet aid. The reason many people have trouble losing weight is their stomachs get bloated so harder to fill. I few months using this and it would be impossible for people to come off it without feeling desperatly hungry all the time.

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sc00ter
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 11:12 AM (UTC)

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In the past they have put balloons in people's stomaches to give them a sense of being full.

It didn't work.

Between the balloon getting stuck in not so good places, and it really not causing the desired effect, they ended up not using that as a treatment.

More info here

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From:

baconmonkey
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 11:29 AM (UTC)

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I think a collar that shocks the bejezus out of you when you eat would be a very effective weight loss tool.

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From:

elegantelbow
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 2:45 PM (UTC)

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fab_icon!

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From:

taffer
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 3:18 PM (UTC)

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Also, highly entertaining after someone figures out how to activate it with a remote control of some sort.

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From:

calmingshoggoth
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:57 PM (UTC)

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Pies to the face should do it.

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From:

2ce
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 12:19 PM (UTC)

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Every once in a blue moon, I botch the job of swallowing a pill properly and it gets lodged in my esophagus. It kind of hurts, but you can wash it down with some tea or something without much of a problem.

I'm just wondering what happens when you do that with this thing.

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etherial
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 4:55 PM (UTC)

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I don't think it would be much of a problem. You're supposed to take it with *two* glasses of water.

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From:

curlyeric
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 2:33 PM (UTC)

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Hmmm... ruptured internal organs and dehydration.

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From:

phs
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 4:42 PM (UTC)

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"'Obesity is such an enormous problem,' said Ambrosio."

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From:

etherial
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 4:52 PM (UTC)

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"Obesity is such an enormous problem," Ambrosio weighed in.

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From:

ms_nobizit
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 5:21 PM (UTC)

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MMM.
Tapeworm is so Over.

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From:

ultranurd
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 6:33 PM (UTC)

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The fact that it lists "No baths!" implies that at one time baths were used as a weight loss method? Explain?

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From:

lanikei
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:42 PM (UTC)

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presumably hot baths like saunas? sweat it out, etc.

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From:

benediktus
Fri, 8-Jun-2007 7:56 PM (UTC)

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the urban legend about maria callas never dies...

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From:

flan53
Sat, 9-Jun-2007 3:08 AM (UTC)

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it's like in the little prince, when there's the guy selling pills which allow you to not need to drink water. Then what happens to the simple joy of a glass of water on a hot day?

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From:

albino_minako
Sat, 9-Jun-2007 3:25 AM (UTC)

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I'd eat it.

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