If someone put you in a centrifuge — for an entire year — would you lose weight? An essay by someone named Sarah argues, that “Centrifugation makes animals smaller, leaner, more muscular, and denser-boned.” The essay gives many examples. Here are two of those examples: Female rats exposed to 3.5 or 4.7 G for one […]
Tag: Weight Loss
Drink water, lose weight, so they say
A press release describes an impressive dieting regimen. Researcher Brenda Davy of Virginia Tech says: “We found that over the course of 12 weeks, dieters who drank water before meals, three times per day, lost about 5 pounds more than dieters who did not increase their water intake.” (Thanks to BoingBoing for bringing this to […]
Chew, Chew, Chew, and Emaciate
“Severe Weight Loss Caused by Chewing Gum,” Juergen Bauditz, Kristina Norman, Henrik Biering, Herbert Lochs, and Matthias Pirlich, British Medical Journal, vol. 336,no. 96–7, 2008, DOI:10.1136/bmj. 39280.657350.BE. (Thanks to Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Charite Universitatsmedizin in Berlin, Germany, report: Both our patients consumed large amounts of sorbitol, which […]