Someone needs to have their license to practice taken away.

waaaaaat

Tubers?

sorry for party rockin'

So can I use this with vodka?

Wow. What a sign of a lazy society. Rather than diet and exercise they resort to unhealthy practices that result in them not only endangering themselves but making themselves look stupid.

File under "Wtf is wrong with you?"

Full article is in the Sunday NY Times. These people should be slapped silly and not allowed to breed.

From the Times article, they say this has been done in Europe, specifically Italy for a while.

/to lazy to link to original article

In a perverse way I'm glad this weird one got greenlit,
since otherwise I would never have:
1.)heard of it
2.)ever f'n believed it.

/perhaps we should have a new Fark tab [Gross], as in not-news-items to avoid reading before meals?

"The main side effects are bad breath; there is some constipation because there is no fiber in the food," he said.

Time for

Resident Muslim: Tubers?

What of them?

OniExpress: So can I use this with vodka?

You are onto something. One tube with Vodak and one tube with oxygen and any girl would be the perfect date, except for the one in the photo. She would need a few paper bags.

Lewis Black predicted this. (new window)

numbone: "The main side effects are bad breath; there is some constipation because there is no fiber in the food," he said.

Time for
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Technically, there's no solid "food", it's just a liquid drip, so how would anyone notice constipation anyway?

Society is too sick to survive

Any woman who does this should automatically be sterilized. There is already enough stupidity in the world, retards who would do this do not need to breed

Mirrorz: She did it before it was cool.

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Someone want to shop some hipster glasses on her?

Can't putting your body in a state of ketosis be deadly?

Why would you not buy a wedding dress that fit your actual body? Sure, I dieted a little and toned my arms before my wedding, but there was no way in hell I was buying a dress two sizes too small that would require me to torture myself to get into it. Nearly everyone coming to your wedding knows what you look like anyway--just have the photographer 'Shop out the extra chins if you're feeling that bad about it.

FTA: What a woman with her attractiveness enhanced by a feeding tube might look like:

The interwebs are not really that full of proof of this working... Link (new window)

Mr.Hawk: The interwebs are not really that full of proof of this working... Link (new window)

From Florida? And this surprises you why?

I remember reading an article a while ago about the doctor that developed the PEG feeding tube; he originally intended it to be a short term solution for providing nutrition to children who couldn't eat for whatever reason. He felt that they was being grossly over-utilized in long term care settings because it was easier for a doctor to stick a PEG tube in a terminal comatose patient than it was for them to deal with end-of-life issues with the patient's families.

Wonder how he feels about this nonsense...

/PEG tubes are different from the nasogastric feeding tubes that the morans in TFA are using, but the idea is more or less the same.

My wife was in a serious car accident 5 years ago and still uses a feeding tube. She dosen't have her balance to walk, and her right side looks like she had a stroke (she didn't). To her that is the worst thing about the accident, having to in effect pack a "baby bag" of things when we travel. Just a pain all around.

She did loose over 100lbs though, that is the only slightly positive effect.

I have joking told her we should market the "Two-Cal" diet and make tons of money, I hate it when I joke about something and find out that it really happens.

Chelle82: Can't putting your body in a state of ketosis be deadly?

Why would you not buy a wedding dress that fit your actual body? Sure, I dieted a little and toned my arms before my wedding, but there was no way in hell I was buying a dress two sizes too small that would require me to torture myself to get into it. Nearly everyone coming to your wedding knows what you look like anyway--just have the photographer 'Shop out the extra chins if you're feeling that bad about it.

Short-term ketosis is ok. Long-term ketosis plays hell with your kidneys; pushing all that nitrogen out of your system is tough on them. People who advocate the paleo diet conveniently ignore the fact that the average life-span back then was 30.

I don't understand the "zomg they should be sterilized" part of this thread.

Is it because of the crash diet? It's no less stupid than many other crash diets in terms of what's in the feed.

Is it because they look stupid? Plenty of people go out of their way to look stupid with much longer-term consequences.

Is it because it is medical? Again, people do much stupider things with their doctors. This doesn't seem much different from any elective procedure.

Is it because it's too easy? Why should they have to "suffer" from traditional weight loss programs if there is another way to do it.

Is it because there's risk? I wager getting in a car would be much riskier.

So, why should anyone care at all what they do or find it offensive?

If they want to pay money for this, go ahead. More power to them.

A lot of people say they are eating Paleo because doing Atkins isn't cool anymore but they are doing the same thing.

There is no real reason why a person eating Paleo should restrict carbs.

This isn't from The Onion? Jeezus.

The cyberpunk-loving, tranhumanist side of me is finding this to be much cooler than it should be.

If a woman I was to marry did this she would be wasting her time because there would be no wedding.

/don't marry crazy
//don't give crazy a baby

Next thing you know, people will use feeding tubes on one another like vampires.

Intentionally self-inducing ketoacidosis to wear a dress made for anorexic mannequins?

What, is a corset not dangerous enough anymore?

ketoacidosis =/= ketosis

No way you're losing 20 pounds of fat in 10 days without a lot of exercise. 5 easily, maybe 10, but the rest of that weight loss would be temporary and would come back as soon as you stopped the diet.

Low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diets are a good way to lose weight rapidly. You do not need feeding tubes, injections, or other gimmicks to make it work. You do need to be quite selective about the types and quantities of foods you eat, but if you do it right you won't feel too hungry. Exercise helps but it is not a requirement. If you later go back to your previous hard-drinking, cheeseburger-pounding lifestyle the weight will return.

Chelle82: Can't putting your body in a state of ketosis be deadly?

Not by itself. There is a related condition called ketoacidosis that is dangerous, but if you're otherwise healthy and drink lots of water then you should be OK. You can buy urine test strips ("Ketostix") to measure your ketone levels during the diet.

As someone who had to wear a nasogastric feeding tube for the three months to GAIN weight, I wanna punch these women in the box. Burping up stuff you have never actually tasted sucks.

cretinbob

Came to say exactly what you said.
/satisfied

So, you spend a week with a tube up your nose wherever you go, you lose that 10 pounds, but then have to spend your wedding day (and night) with terrible bad breath and constipation?

Your fiance is such the lucky guy.

I just want to be happy with my failure pile in a sadness bowl thank you.

Dear guys,

Are you a chubby-chaser and like large women? No problem. But if not and your bride-to-be needs to lose 30 lbs to get into her dream wedding gown, either learn to be turned on by fat women or run like hell. Single women with weight issues will almost invariably become obese after marriage and having a kid or too.

Also, they look like 1st stage Guild Navigators.