What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer or diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well, the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words, one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today I discuss the safety and efficacy of some unconventional weight loss methods.

Everything from Botox and Corsets to Siphons and Tape Worlds.

A moderately obese person doing moderately intense physical activity like biking or brisk walking would burn off a prostate 350 calories an hour.

But most drinks snacks into the processed junk are consumed at a rate of about 70 calories per minute.

Therefore, it only takes five minutes for someone to wipe out a whole hour of exercise.

Enter the Aspirusist Siphon Assembly.

It's a percutaneous gastrostomy device, meaning surgeons cut a hole in your stomach and tunnel a fistula out through your abdominal wall.

So after each meal you can attach a suctioning gadget to the hole and directly drain out your stomach contents.

You could gorge on donuts, spew them out through the hole in your stomach, and then gorge again on even more donuts.

Have your cake and eat it too. And three and four times. It's like bulimio without the aftertaste.

Seems to be the quintessential American invention straight from the land that brought you jello salad, spray cheese, and deep fried snickers bars.

Patients do lose weight, perhaps in part because the fistula may interfere with the relaxation of the stomach wall during a meal.

The process also requires drinking lots of water and for food to be chewed thoroughly, both of which may help with weight loss.

Another way is by increasing hydration and slowing eating rate.

Patients also started to make healthier choices to avoid unpleasant appearing gastric aspirate of unhealthy food choices.

The tubing is clear and evidently fried foods look particularly gross as they're pumped out.

All patients need to take supplemental potassium since it sucked out in the stomach juices,

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