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Tuesday, November 15. 2011

No more dieting, no more exercise?

Just kill off those nasty fat cells that you have been over-feeding: Obese Monkeys Lose Weight On Drug That Attacks Blood Supply of Fat Cells.


Assuming this will be somewhat safer than bariatric surgery, we'll all be able to eat all we want and as inactive as we want, and we'll all be as skinny as models. Being in shape will lose all of its virtue because it will be effortless.


Maybe being fat will then come into fashion.


 

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 16:50 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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The mental acuity attributable to exercise will not be obtained by popping pills.
Want a sluggish mind?
Don't exercise.
#1 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-11-15 17:10 (Reply)
Yeah, and when you have to trudge two miles uphill through the snow to reach school you will die of starvation.
#2 chuck on 2011-11-15 17:37 (Reply)
Yes! No more fat monkeys. There's nothing that annoys me more than fat monkeys.
#3 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-11-15 18:14 (Reply)
I like my excess amount of fat cells thank you very much.
#4 Tom Francis on 2011-11-15 20:21 (Reply)
Will these drugs be gender specific? Body part specific? Will my fat filled brain shrink to an unobservable level of activity? Well, if it isn't there already, hard to tell some days.
#5 XRay on 2011-11-15 20:41 (Reply)
until those PETA loons begin to bemoan that the drugs aren't letting the monkeys be themselves.

I swear, the gene pool is in desperate need of a heavy chlorine treatment...
#5.1 Fred Zeppelin on 2011-11-15 20:47 (Reply)
PacRim Jim - I might worry more about mood than mental acuity. I suspect, in fact, that the supposed loss of acuity is not easily-distinguishable from depressed mood.

Any generalised removal of a health danger is a good thing. Everything has consequences, though. We will use some different attributes of attractiveness to differentiate each other when seeking mates (or even friends), and we won't necessarily all feel cheery about the results.
#6 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2011-11-15 21:54 (Reply)
Your 'Assuming', likewise assumes that all their hypotheses about our digestive systems and metabolisms, and how our bodies myriad systems work, are correct.

I am not sure that your optimism is warranted.
#7 Chuckles on 2011-11-16 09:24 (Reply)
I wish I were a member of Congress--I could make a killing once I knew before everyone else which pharmaceutical company was going to make the stuff.
#8 Mike James on 2011-11-16 19:12 (Reply)

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