A diet pill that expands (so you don't!)

That picture is the single weirdest way to advertise a diet pill I've ever seen. Believe it or not, that mass of jelly is actually the diet pill -- it swells up like that in your stomach to help you feel full.

It's currently undergoing trials in Rome, and it's basically a powder in the Jell-O family that absorbs water and becomes a big mass of gelatin when wet. The idea would be to pop a small pill followed by two large glasses of water whenever you feel hungry, or before any big meal where you're afraid you might over-indulge, to prevent yourself from eating too much.

The pill could be available to the public in a little as a year, but I don't think I'll be trying it out. How many times a day are people going to be taking this pill? Can it really be healthy to digest that many tennis ball-sized gelatin blobs on a daily basis?


Via FitSugar