Mellow jello

Here’s a fast and easy (and untested) way to lose weight. Take a small white pill with a glass of water, and wait for a short while as it turns into a large ball of jelly, keeping you nice and full all day and stopping you wanting to eat. So say the team from Italy’s National Research Council. Now I’m as keen as the next person to find a simple way to lose weight, but this idea sounds moderately disturbing. Not necessarily more disturbing than, say, a gastric band or eating paper tissues to fill yourself up, but still not so great. Even though the pill is made of cellulose, which is easily broken down inside the body, what if the pill gets stuck in your oesophegus? Or passes through your stomach and inflates inside your intestine? Scary. They admit that they’ve only tried it on 20 people (including their researcher, who suprise suprise said it was great), and their next move is to do some proper testing. Hmm.

PS - If it inflates into a ball of jelly in your stomach, what’s wrong with just eating, er, JELLY (or Jello to you folks across the pond)? Jelly’s nice! Orange flavour in particular. Just a suggestion.

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