Weight loss

Magical New Gel Expands In Your Stomach to Make You Feel Full Longer

Hungry? You probably are, because we eat more soft foods than ever before, meaning we feel satiated less often and want to eat more. Then we get fat. No big deal. Science has a new solution in the form of a gel, derived from ingredients used in molecular gastronomy by a team of engineers from…

Health Adam Clark Estes Jan 6

No, skipping breakfast will not cause you to gain weight

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, we are often told, mostly because it helps us keep off the excess weight. But a new meta-analysis now shows that the science doesn’t actually back up this claim. Conventional wisdom suggests that skipping breakfast will make us hungrier throughout the day, thereby causing us to…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 10

How a major ingredient in KY Jelly could help you lose weight

Methylcellulose is a pretty common additive in all sorts of food items and cosmetics. You’ve probably eaten it in the last few days in ice cream (and it’s also has some insane applications in molecular gastronomy, and is a major ingredient in KY jelly). But by tweaking it slightly, it could become the “magic bullet”…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 21

If Electroshock Therapy Could Stop Your Binge Eating, Would You Do It?

We’ve read about a number of extreme weight-loss measures lately: form an elective feeding tube to an intragastric weight-loss balloon, seemingly nothing is to drastic for those desperate to lose weight. https://gizmodo.com/would-you-pay-to-walk-around-with-a-feeding-tube-down-y-5902490 Where do we draw the line? A team of research scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have authored a new study that proposes…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 26

How Alcoholism Is Linked to Extreme Weight-Loss

Recent research out of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center sheds new light on the correlation between gastric bypass surgery and the increased risk of developing an alcohol addiction. Previously, it had been suggested that increased alcohol consumption was compensatory for the inability to consume food as one had previously, at levels seeming of addiction.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jun 19

This Math Equation Will Make You Less Fat

From trying fad diets to developing eating disorders to becoming a gym rat, people have basically gone crazy trying to lose weight. And it’s true, America is fat. But what if the secret to losing weight wasn’t in ditching carbs or hurling or doing interval exercises but rather if it was in math? What? Yes.…

Health Casey Chan May 15

Green coffee bean extract is your next miracle weight loss pill

Ready for the next extract that everyone’s going to be taking to try and lose weight? Move over, green tea; green coffee beans are next up to the plate. Dr. Joe Vinson presented his research at the Spring conference of the ACS, and in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study, the extract actually did quite…

io9 Tim Barribeau Mar 31

A cool hand could help you lose weight

Sure, icing your wrists can help you cool down more easily — but could chilling your palms help you lose weight and stay in shape? https://lifehacker.com/know-your-bodys-quick-cooling-spots-5571072 A small study being presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2012 Scientific Sessions used palm cooling to help obese women exercise, and…

io9 Tim Barribeau Mar 15

Socializing can help you lose weight (if you’re a mouse)

Want to shed some pounds? It’s not that difficult if you can leave your limited environment for one where you’re challenged and interact with more people. At least with mice, changing habitat to one that’s more social and offers a wider variety of activities led to a remarkable physical transformation. Much of the rodents’ white…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 9

Why does nicotine help you lose weight?

Apart from its laundry list of negative consequences, smoking is known to do one or two good things for you — it’ll help you lose weight, and there’s some evidence it can prevent Parkinson’s. New research has picked apart just how nicotine helps keep you skinny, potentially opening the way to new weight loss techniques,…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jun 9

A virus could rewire your brain to help you lose weight

Want to trick your brain into making you feel less hungry? Now a new study shows how scientists could use a virus to alter your brain so you don’t get as hungry. Researchers at Johns Hopkins gave a group of rats a virus which inhibited the neuropeptide Y (NPY) protein in the dorsomedial hypothalamus of…

io9 Tim Barribeau May 6

Boneless Belt Separates Your Fat Into Small Segments, Shames You

This horrifying belt separates your fatty stomach into segments because, in Japan, fat people are retarded and lazy and think this will help them lose weight. This is how it supposedly works: In effect, the structure of the rubber belt is a large mesh grid that splits the dieter’s belly, side and back fat into…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 6

Fantastical Ways to Lose Weight in the New Year

Pledging to lose weight as your New Year’s Resolution? We list some of science fiction’s quick fixes for weight loss, but be warned: these shortcuts often come with a terrible price. Take Adipose (Doctor Who “Partners in Crime”): Adipose is a miracle weight loss supplement that causes users to lose fat without any exercise or…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 30

Chair Burns Calories For You (Through Torture)

The Hobart I-Cool seat concept has your best interests at heart. It wants you to lose weight but knows that you shouldn’t have to leave your chair to do so. Using a “proprietary” system for “temperature regulation,” users are said to shed pounds while just sitting there in a fashionable “micro environment.” But to us,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 29

Blocked Enzyme Curbs Appetite, Promotes Weight Loss, Probably Causes Cancer or Something

Good news, America! Your faithful scientific elite have isolated a brain enzyme that, when blocked, decreases appetite, promotes weight loss and improves the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels. You’ll be fat and diabetic no longer! There’ll be no need to exercise when you’ll have easy access to a drug that makes trans-fat-laden fast…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 6

Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine Shrinks Something, But Not Your Butt

The Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine claims to improve your muscle strength and bone density, using some magic high-frequency vibration. Doesn’t this remind you of those worthless butt-shaking machines that were so popular back in the ’60s? This one’s makers also boast about how it could actually speed weight loss. They even drop the possibility…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 31

Tanita BC-545 Scale: Learn More About That Flab Than You Really Want to Know

Tanita scales are so cool. But this Tanita Innerscan BC-545 measures a whole lot more than your weight, so much so that the company calls it a Segmental Body Composition Monitor. It can give you readings of how much fat is in each arm, each leg, and of course, that potentially ample repository of adipose…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 2

Kids Get 40% More Calorie Burning Playing Wii Than 360, PS3

As a follow up to our post before about a lady complaining that her kids were playing sports on the Wii instead of out engaging in the real thing, here’s a study from a Liverpool university that says kids burn 40% more calories from playing Wii than other consoles. https://gizmodo.com/crazy-lady-says-wiis-are-bad-for-kids-236666 Among the findings, energy expenditures…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 20

Enviga: Calorie-Burning Tea to Melt Off That Extra Flab?

Coca-Cola and Nestl will roll out Enviga in test markets in the Northeast US next month. The carbonated green tea-based beverage is supposed to be able to actually burn calories. Its blend of green tea extracts is said to boost metabolism, burning 50 to 100 calories per 12-oz serving. That’ll cost you, though, about $1.29…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 12

One Click Butter Cutter for Calorie Counters, Obsessives, Lazy Bums

Too tired or lazy to cut your butter in the morning? Here’s a machine that’ll do it for you, precisely measuring a 35-calorie portion at a time. Keep in mind, butter is 100% fat. This could actually be useful. If you’re a fanatic about calorie counting, dole out a controlled portion, count it accurately, slim…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 10

Magical New Gel Expands In Your Stomach to Make You Feel Full Longer

No, skipping breakfast will not cause you to gain weight

How a major ingredient in KY Jelly could help you lose weight

If Electroshock Therapy Could Stop Your Binge Eating, Would You Do It?

How Alcoholism Is Linked to Extreme Weight-Loss

This Math Equation Will Make You Less Fat

Green coffee bean extract is your next miracle weight loss pill

A cool hand could help you lose weight

Socializing can help you lose weight (if you’re a mouse)

Why does nicotine help you lose weight?

A virus could rewire your brain to help you lose weight

Boneless Belt Separates Your Fat Into Small Segments, Shames You

Fantastical Ways to Lose Weight in the New Year

Chair Burns Calories For You (Through Torture)

Blocked Enzyme Curbs Appetite, Promotes Weight Loss, Probably Causes Cancer or Something

Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine Shrinks Something, But Not Your Butt

Tanita BC-545 Scale: Learn More About That Flab Than You Really Want to Know

Kids Get 40% More Calorie Burning Playing Wii Than 360, PS3

Enviga: Calorie-Burning Tea to Melt Off That Extra Flab?

One Click Butter Cutter for Calorie Counters, Obsessives, Lazy Bums

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