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15 Feb ’12
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Is this real life?
The Food and Drug Administration approved a weight loss device on Tuesday that pumps food out of a person’s stomach after they eat a meal.
While some have criticized the device as “assisted bulimia,” the FDA stressed in a statement, that the AspireAssist device is not meant for anyone with an eating disorder, and should only be used by adults 22-and-older who are obese and have failed to lose weight through non-surgical methods.
To place the device, a surgeon makes a tiny incision and endoscopically puts a tube in the patient’s stomach, which is attached to a “disk-shaped port that lies outside the body,” according to the statement. To drain the contents of the stomach, a person should wait twenty or thirty minutes after they eat, and then attach an external connector to the port and open the valve.
According to the statement, 30 percent of the calories consumed during a meal can be removed by the device, which takes five-to-ten minutes to drain the food from the stomach into the toilet.
21 Feb ’12
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go home FDA, you're drunk
4 Mar ’12
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makes me want to puke
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Congrats! You have been chosen as a test subject farmboy!
4 Mar ’12
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where's my bucket?
15 Feb ’12
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people are not happy about this
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Lotta Bosnyak takes extra time to chew the blueberries in her yogurt. Otherwise, she said, the device she credits with saving her life will not work.
The tube Bosnyak is referring to has been implanted into her stomach. She turns a valve and, standing over a toilet, drains out the yogurt.
The 52-year-old Delray Beach, Florida, resident was one of the first people to try the "AspireAssist" device four years ago in Sweden, where she is from.
"It's one of the best ways to change your relationship to food because it does require a lot of work on the patient's part," said Dr. Christopher Thompson, director of therapeutic endoscopy at Brigham Woman's Hospital in Boston.
"It's not just a procedure that's done and then they're off and they don't think about it anymore," he added.
The device, made by Pennsylvania-based biomedical company AspireBariatrics, was approved for use in the United States in June.
However, critics are urging the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its decision, saying the device mimics, promotes and could lead to potentially life-threatening disorders such as bulimia and binge-eating.
"This will likely prove to be yet another in a long line list of misguided, unsuccessful and dangerous products for losing weight," wrote Dr. Eva Trujillo, president of the Academy of Eating Disorders, in a draft of a letter to be submitted the FDA next week.
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