The new weight loss device designed for those who have tried them all but just can’t eat less has aroused a lot of controversy. However, both online and by experts, there has been an outcry at the news of his invention. The terms used to comment on this new weight loss device are in fact anything but reassuring.
From barbaric contraption to medieval torture.
What is it about?

Well, a group of British and Australian researchers invented and tested a small weight loss device on a sample of obese women, who lost an average of 7 kilos in 14 days, consuming 1200 calories in the form of drinks.
But why couldn’t they eat?
No, that’s the point.
The instrument is a kind of dental appliance which, when applied to the teeth, where it is fixed, does not allow the mouth to open for more than a few millimeters, the space sufficient to introduce liquids, sealing them. But no more chatter, let’s let the images do the talking.
Here is the weight loss device designed by researchers. Beautiful, is not it?

A sea of ​​controversy behind the new weight loss device

Neutrally defined as an “intraoral appliance”, this device that does not allow the jaws to open, since it is cemented on the lower and upper molars, has allowed a tiny group of women (7 in the study) to lose weight, but it has also aroused , as is understandable, a sea of ​​controversy.

Including two articles, one in the Washington Post and one in Vice, in which reporters interviewed experts. Not one of them has found anything positive in this trap.

The most harmless risk is precisely the damage to the teeth, but the greatest concern lies in having equated obesity with overeating, when obesity is actually today defined as a multifactorial disease, where multiple causes between hormones come into play, genetic predisposition to stress, psychological dependence on food, pathologies as risk factors (for example polycystic ovary in women).

The researchers defend their invention by saying that it is less invasive than bariatric surgery, but what escapes is that every person suffering from obesity must be considered as a case in itself, something irreducible to the number of the scales.

Only a personalized intervention can help a patient suffering from severe obesity and this intervention must be desired by the patient and never imposed. Putting a muzzle on him is not the solution. The solution cannot be separated from preserving the dignity of those who suffer.