"And the fat just walks away..."

The ex-fattie comments under the article are typical. Claiming they're proud of working hard to lose weight when in reality they're pissed off this pill wasn't out 10 years ago.

this seems like a really really really bad idea.

HoboCop: DO WANT

You sound fat.

/I keed, I keed.
//Not in the face please.

CheetahOlivetti: Wouldn't this create gangrenous chunks all over your body? And aren't boobs mostly fat?

FTFA:

Over the period of four weeks of treatment, the obese monkeys dropped 27 percent of their abdominal fat, and became notably less insulin resistant. Monkeys that were already thin didn't shed pounds at all, meaning it might only target extra weight, not the stuff we need to survive.

FirstNationalBastard: Katie98_KT: this seems like a really really really bad idea.

Science. they're all about coulda, not shoulda.

Thanks Dr. Malcom.

CheetahOlivetti: Wouldn't this create gangrenous chunks all over your body?

The fat would just be metabolized. I can't actually see a downside to...

CheetahOlivetti: And aren't boobs mostly fat?

...WE MUST BURY THIS RESEARCH.

Wasn't there a Sliders episode just like this?

Curious on what the limit is for how tubby you have to be for this to work. Also this has nothing to do with the desire to eat nothing but pizza for a month.

So... start a pool on sideffects?

/$5 says tissue necrosis and encephalopathy.

dfacto: So... start a pool on sideffects?

/$5 says tissue necrosis and encephalopathy.

I put $5 on cancer of some kind.

Gunther: CheetahOlivetti: Wouldn't this create gangrenous chunks all over your body?

The fat would just be metabolized. I can't actually see a downside to...



See, that's the part that doesn't make sense to me. The body is storing that fat because it doesn't need the energy. So when all this extra fat starts showing up in the form of dying adipose cells, it's not like the body needs that energy either. So "just metabolize it" seems like you're just playing (metabolic) musical chairs. I don't see how this is doing anything more than setting you up for a blood clot or a heart attack.

Also, I'd like to know what an obese monkey looks like.

I will take a sick satisfaction in suffocating my excess adipose tissue. Choke you little farking fat cell, just choke.

dfacto: So... start a pool on sideffects?

/$5 says tissue necrosis and encephalopathy.

$15 says it's cannibalism

dfacto: So... start a pool on sideffects?

/$5 says tissue necrosis and encephalopathy.

Avascluar necrosis as blood vessels to the bones die

Gunther: CheetahOlivetti: And aren't boobs mostly fat?

...WE MUST BURY THIS RESEARCH.

Come on people, do I have to think of everything?

Just provide free vouchers for boob jobs with purchase of this miracle drug.

Problem solved.

CheetahOlivetti: Wouldn't this create gangrenous chunks all over your body?

Maybe you will cough it up like a hair ball?

Zombie Apocalypse in 3... 2... BRAAAAIIIIINNNNS

dfacto: So... start a pool on sideffects?

/$5 says tissue necrosis and encephalopathy.

Anal leakage would be my first bet...

keiverarrow: Isn't the brain mostly fat?

Maybe yours is.....

I think you are referring to Myelin, which is mainly lipid, and functions as an insulator for nerve cells (neurons). The drug described in the article targets cells whose specific function is to store fat reserves. Two very different things.

Whenever it sounds too good to be true...

So the carts at Costco will be piled twice as high with Doritos?

mpowelljr: Anal leakage would be my first bet...

Oh, please, the first side effect is ALWAYS anal leakage.

FirstNationalBastard: Katie98_KT: this seems like a really really really bad idea.

Science. they're all about coulda, not shoulda.

They do what they can because they must.

Possible outcome number one: This drug never reaches market due to a side effect.

Possible outcome number two: This drug is priced as highly as possible by its makers. The price will be set just under health cost savings predicted by actuarials for not being a fat arse.

Possible outcome number three: Everyone takes this all the time. Everyone is thin. Everyone is shocked at how many people remain unfarkable because they are still fugly.

PizzaJedi81: mpowelljr: Anal leakage would be my first bet...

Oh, please, the first side effect is ALWAYS anal leakage.

If you're going to bet... go with a winner lol.

tricycleracer: The ex-fattie comments under the article are typical. Claiming they're proud of working hard to lose weight when in reality they're pissed off this pill wasn't out 10 years ago.

This! As a former and current fatty trying to be a former fatty again, I would opt for the pill popping instead of the work. I lost 65 pounds the hard way 10 years ago (took me a year to do it). Kept it off for 7 years, but in the last 3 years I put 40 of it back on. With arthritis in my hips, back and knees, as well as a lot less time to spend at the gym, it's much tougher this time around.

mpowelljr: PizzaJedi81: mpowelljr: Anal leakage would be my first bet...

Oh, please, the first side effect is ALWAYS anal leakage.

If you're going to bet... go with a winner lol.

Aha! But with obese people will you really be able to tell if it's a side effect of the drug or just the Taco Bell?

dfacto: Aha! But with obese people will you really be able to tell if it's a side effect of the drug or just the Taco Bell?

There is nothing scarier than the thought of augmented Taco Bell diarrhea. It'd be a warm, wet shower of poo.

LUPUS

ibanezdude: tricycleracer: The ex-fattie comments under the article are typical. Claiming they're proud of working hard to lose weight when in reality they're pissed off this pill wasn't out 10 years ago.

Those comments were seriously depressing.

Why can't people just be happy that an awesome drug that could potentially change a lot of lives is under development?

People really suck sometimes.


because everyone who's not them is a lazy, fat, useless, fark.

or a.k.a. they really don't like themselves very much.

Doctor Jan Itor: LUPUS

Please, it's never lupus.

tibanezdude: tricycleracer: The ex-fattie comments under the article are typical. Claiming they're proud of working hard to lose weight when in reality they're pissed off this pill wasn't out 10 years ago.

Those comments were seriously depressing.

Why can't people just be happy that an awesome drug that could potentially change a lot of lives is under development?

People really suck sometimes.

the human population turns into Canadian Geese, eating and pooping at the same time

or until we eat everything in sight, demanding more and more resources to fill our gaping maws that we destroy all of nature and everything around us, just so that we don't have to do a sit-up

Katie98_KT: this seems like a really really really bad idea.

This sounds like how that zombie thing gets started. "Starved for brain fat, the zombies began their rampage...."

Kanemano: the human population turns into Canadian Canada Geese, eating and pooping at the same time

That's what they're called.

PizzaJedi81: Kanemano: the human population turns into Canadian Canada Geese, eating and pooping at the same time

That's what they're called.

I stand corrected

never the less, point, you got it

One of the great coups of my nerd-dom is getting my non-nerd girlfriend to watch the David Tennant Doctor Who with me. She absolutely LOVED the cute little adipose thingies.