After the pause...

That was a long good night, wasn't it? Life has moved along in the usual way here on the coast of Maine. We are just ending a period of fierce cold, with daytime wind chills in the range of -20F, so a lot of at least the last week has been lived indoors, not that I am a big outdoor winter sports person anyway. I have been working, reading, knitting, watching movies and doing some work on my maybe-someday book. Along the way I ran across this little item -- Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, and a team of bariatricians are applying  for a device they call AspireAssist. From the website,  With Aspiration Therapy, patients “aspirate” (drain) a portion of their stomach contents into the toilet after each meal through an endoscopically-implanted tube, reducing the number of calories absorbed by the body. The tube is implanted in the stomach, and leads to a small, low-profile port at the surface of the skin. Aspiration performed about twenty minutes after a meal will remove about a third of the calories consumed.  In other words it is a device that does the work that bulimics do themselves with their fingers. That's right, it sucks a portion of your stomach contents out of your gut and mechanically vomits them into your toilet.   Mind you, in a thin or normal weight person, induced vomiting after eating is considered an eating disorder, bulimia, and seen as a health hazard and psychiatric diso...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs