This kind of scared me... This injection people are getting that dissolves fat! Of course, it's not FDA approved, and it's banned in other countries.

And the reporter raises the ever-so-salient question, "Where does the fat go?"

(Anybody seen Envy, with Ben Stiller and Jack Black? Reminds me of that -- VaPOOrize, where does the poo go? )

This quote at the bottom got me kind of mad:
"Yet patients like CC say the results are amazing and contend the treatment represents the perfect answer for those who are not able or simply do not have the time to lose weight naturally."

Seriously? This is what people want? Injections of stuff with questionable benefit so they, what, have more time to eat? Don't have to work? GRRR.

Here is a link to the article on BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...nt/7171672.stm

What do you ladies think?

I actually saw this on the news yesterday, and it scares me. Everything nowadays seems like a quick fix. Well, as most of us here know, the quick fix for weight loss does not exist. Or it does, and it only leads to more heartache, pain, and FAT later on.

To advertise a way to lose weight, that does not include permanent lifestyle changes such as healthier eating and exercise, spells disaster to me. These people are most likely going to regain the fat that they lost via the procedure.

Then again, I am biased. I am really against almost all types of non-necessary plastic surgery and other types of procedures like this.

If it actually destroys the fat, wouldn't there be a huge risk of infection from the necrotic (dead) tissue? Yikes, that is what really scares me people who are willing to jump from the frying pan into the fire, when it comes to taking risks to lose weight.

That might be what happened to the woman who ended up with an infection in her stomach (which made a swollen area the size of a tennis ball). That might be exactly what happened.

Why would people do this without knowing what it's doing to them?? Talk about living for the "now" and not thinking for the future...

I worry about things like this so much! I'm so against diet pills, injections- I had a great aunt that took Fen-Phen and it left her with so many health issues- she was one of the lucky ones that didn't die from it.

I'm not exactly sure what injection it is, but I know one woman I know is doing some kind of injection that is recommended in the book "what they don't want you to know" or something or other. She had to buy it from some other country I think. She's really lost a lot of weight in the past 4 months or so. However, I'm not sticking any needles in myself. When I was getting blood work done when I was pregnant, it was all I could do not to cry.

fat is disposed of in the urine btw. I'm sure it is flushed out the same way it would be if you were losing weight any other way. I'm no doctor though. I may be wrong

I don't know. It just sounds unsafe to me. But, some people will go to any lengths to avoid actually changing their lifestyle.

I think people need to stop making excuses for themselves. Ugh! Lazy, that is what it is all about, laziness. If you honest to god, don't have time to exercise, not even making each movement you make in the day count... you could still at least eat healthier. And as for the injection <shudder>!

Wow...that's just scary and crazy