New FDA-approved weight loss device sucks food straight from your stomach
Whenever you see and expanding pain point, and obesity is clearly one, there tend to be all sorts of companies putting forth solutions. In looking at this potential solution to the Fattening of the Population, we have to wonder if its a device that will truly help or one that enables? Would it have helped all those people that WALL-E encountered near the end of his self titled movie from Disney’s Pixar?
Get ready to lose your lunch. A new device that drains a portion of a person’s stomach contents after every meal has just won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The AspireAssist device is intended for obese people at least 22 years of age who have not been able to lose weight through other approaches, excluding surgery. The device was developed by King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company Aspire Bariatrics.
There is, of course, a bevy of possible things that can go wrong while wearing the device. The FDA statement warns of side effects including “occasional indigestion, nausea, vomiting, constipation and diarrhea,” as well as side effects from the placement (or removal of the tube, including symptoms ranging from sore throats to bleeding and pneumonia, and irritations or conditions around the valve on the outside of the body.
Source: The FDA-approved a weight loss device that sucks food out of your stomach
