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Would you take a battery powered vibrating pill?

NormandyLizNormandyLiz Posts: 788
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Really? Are they serious?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/22/vibrating-pill-may-give-dieters-a-feeling-of-fullness-study-suggests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

As if we don't pollute enough without a whole load a batteries going down the loo. I sympathise with those wanting to loose weight but to me this sounds just wrong. And no, I wouldn't swallow one!
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  • NormandyLizNormandyLiz Posts: 788
    Indeed
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Me neither - but reminded me of this-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHmZMf6zwo

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    they suggest it could be possible to develop pills that are implanted, or stay in the stomach, to reduce the need for people to repeatedly take them,


    It sounds sensible to me

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Fire said:
    they suggest it could be possible to develop pills that are implanted, or stay in the stomach, to reduce the need for people to repeatedly take them,


    It sounds sensible to me


    Where would you stick the cable to recharge the battery?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2023
    Not that long ago people might have asked a similar question about a heart pacemaker … or a cochlear implant … 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Yes, that was going to be my comment. But I think Katy was being rude. ;)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I was referring to the question posed by the thread title 😊 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Obesity costs the NHS millions, the surgery for it is risky, this might be a good solution.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The suppository option already seems to be very popular...
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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