Are you always hungry? Do you find youself frequently over eating? Instead of filling yourself up with all that food, how about filling yourself up with some delicious hydrogel instead! Sound gross? We think so.
Researchers at a Boston-based company, Gelesis, have been testing a possible weight loss supplement called Attiva that swells into a gel-like substance that fills your stomach after it is consumed.
Although the substance is only the size of a sugar grain, once these grains in capsule form are consumed with water, it expands to the point where it stretches the stomach walls, stimulating nerve fibers that tell the brain you’re full.
You know who else regularly stretches their stomach? Hot dog eating champions, so they can fit more, and more food into their stomach! To some, this new drug may be the answer to avoid obesity, but to us it sounds like another excuse to avoid healthy eating habits and eat whatever else can fit into that hydrogel filled stomach of yours.
We think the best answer to obesity is a healthy diet and regular exercise, not another diet pill full of empty hydrogelled promises.
What do U think?
