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saw a cool show on PBS's scientific american where they followed up on an earlier show of weight loss where they compared different dieting and weightloss strategies

The one they found that had the best long term success was gastric bypass surgery, they lost the most signifigant amount of weight and managed to keep it off up to two years after the study started when almost all the diets had gained weight back

they then did an exploration on the various kinds of gastric bypass like surgeries, straight up bypass, the constricting band, and by far the most interesting, the pace maker. An electric device like a heart pace maker they stick in your torso and attach to the nerves at the top of the stomach (that all the other surgeries stimulate by physisically reshaping the stomach). It is an order of magnitude less invasive and they've seem to found a good way to screen out binge eater (that the entire technique doeswn't really work on).

This if full on electroneurological cyborg stuff! I think I might want me one of those.

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