Health news 24th October 2011

[Northerner]

Would you choose the drip-fed diet to lose weight?
How far would you go to lose weight? A controversial new procedure is being offered privately to obese and moderately overweight patients in the UK. The Government may be urging us to lose weight ? but what lengths would you go to in order to get slim? How about a 10-day regime of being drip-fed a daily 130 calories of liquid food via a nasogastric tube?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/w...-choose-the-drip-fed-diet-to-lose-weight.html

'Plump my ride': luxury car makers create bigger cars for fat drivers

Luxury carmakers have been forced to upsize their vehicles as a result of drivers and passengers becoming more overweight, it has emerged. Typical family cars have become more than a foot wider and almost double the weight over the past 50 years as manufacturers struggle with the world?s obesity crisis.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...akers-create-bigger-cars-for-fat-drivers.html

Fears over 'intensive farming' of egg donors
Official figures show that one woman had 85 eggs harvested in a single session, while another produced 80. Experts say the drugs needed to increase ovulation to such high levels can lead to side-effects such as mood swings, headaches and fatigue, and in rare cases can cause a potentially fatal condition.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/w...ars-over-intensive-farming-of-egg-donors.html

Single women being offered IVF on the NHS

Women not in relationships are receiving publicly-funded IVF despite official guidance that suggests support should go to couples who have been trying without success to have a baby for several years. Meanwhile in other parts of the country married couples are being denied help in starting a family, forcing them to spend thousands of pounds on private treatment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/w...ingle-women-being-offered-IVF-on-the-NHS.html

 

[cherrypie]

Drip feed diet.

Would anyone want to do this on a regular basis as suggested in the article?
Ten days of drip feeding via a nasal gastric tube, ten days off and then back to the diet as often as necessary. No mention of costs.

 

[Northerner]

Drip feed diet.

Would anyone want to do this on a regular basis as suggested in the article?
Ten days of drip feeding via a nasal gastric tube, ten days off and then back to the diet as often as necessary. No mention of costs.

It's ?350 (at the bottom of the article)

 

[cherrypie]

Thank you.
So that is ?35 per day!!!! I don't spend a lot more than that for 2 people to eat well all week. Better to eat sensibly and lose the weight gradually and not incur the costs.

 

[Northerner]

Thank you.
So that is ?35 per day!!!! I don't spend a lot more than that for 2 people to eat well all week. Better to eat sensibly and lose the weight gradually and not incur the costs.

I find it hard to believe that such an extreme diet doesn't do any harm, particularly if it is repeated several times. Not only does fat get burned fro energy, but muscle can also be affected, so the chap with cardiomyopathy is surely risking damage to his heart?