BBC NEWS | Health | Excitement over weight loss drug
Researchers are now hopeful that a drug can eventually be developed to tackle the "obesity epidemic" threatening the West.This is just great. The cure for laziness. I'm sorry, not the cure for laziness - the cure for one of the many effects of laziness. Somehow I doubt that this isn't going work without some serious side effects despite what they say.
The pill, KB-141, works by speeding the metabolism up; some drugs on the market can already do this. But the side effect of those drugs is rapid heartbeats - which leads to ill effects of course. These folk say they've figured how to turn up your metabolism but not the heartbeat.
The monkeys they tested it on lost 7% of their body weight in 7 days.
Pretty soon we'll have a pill for stopping nose hairs from growing to long. I'll stick with the tweezers and my Huffy, thank you.
