Your Own Personal...Stomach Pump??!!

There is a new product in testing that I see as one of the most disgusting abuses of our current medical knowledge.  Aspire Bariatrics has created a "personal stomach pump" that can pump out the contents of your stomach 20 minutes after eating a meal so that it will not digest or turn in to fat.  It then inserts water into the stomach so that you feel full.  The main issue this company is having in getting their product accepted and on the market for consumers is its difficulty in getting rid of large chunks of food, as well as many types of processed foods; which, let's face it, most of our diet is processed food!

My first thought after reading the article (and watching the lovely video about how the stomach pump is installed and works) was "Really??!!"  It's almost comical that certain members of the medical community are literally banking on the fact that we can be so lazy as to choose to install a permanent fixture on our stomach to drain it instead of learning how to stop stuffing our faces and set our forks down!  It's actually pretty insulting, and now I feel like this...

I hope this makes you a little angry, that as a public we're perceived as being this foolish and ready to make drastic changes instead of making easy (and more cost effective) choices of eating different (healthy) types of food, and exercising instead of sitting.  I also hope you become a little perturbed that a medical form of bulimia is on its way to being acceptable for people to practice.  And what exactly is the "science" behind this product?  How is it acceptable to drain your stomach of the very nutrition it needs to fuel every single system in the body?  Simply stated, this is going to be a fancy (and expensive) way to starve a person.

What do you think?  Below is a link to the article (it's pretty short), and there is a video in the article that shows exactly what the stomach pump looks like, and how it works.


Personalized Stomach Pump