Anti-Obesity Pill Swells in Your Stomach, Making You Full Before You Even Start Eating
The gelatinous capsule has passed its first human trials It's no secret that obesity is a growing problem for Americans. Our kids are growing larger, our rates of diabetes and heart disease show no signs of retreating, and our military is worried that the next generation of warfighters will be too big and sluggish to get the job done. But Boston-based Gelesis has engineered a complex obesity solution that works by a simple mechanism: take a pill, become full, eat less. The idea of shrinking stomach size to reduce the amount of processed foodstuffs a person can consume in one sitting isn't a new idea, but conventional methods of doing so - stomach stapling or gastric bypass surgery - carry with them a bevy of inherent risks (not to mention they're invasive). Gelesis has engineered a similar plan of attack called Attiva, but rather than shrinking the stomach, it aims to reduce...